Newbie: Want to integrate with Contact Mgmt

[Nathan Buchanan]

I think Christian said it best, so I'm going to steal his response from a
few months ago:

What the developers here mean by "the gnucash API" is all the source code
that lives in src/engine/, also known as "the engine" here. Most of it is
documented by doxygen comments in the source code. The source code in
src/engine depends on glib.... The gnucash model of programming expects any
non-GUI program to use the programming API that is offered by src/engine in
order to open a gnucash data file, extract data from it, potentially modify
its content, and maybe save it again.

so, yes, you can probably do what you want to do, but it'll take a bit of
work.

The library that constains this code src/engine/ is libgncmod-engine.<you're
shared library extension>

You might also check http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/modules.html for
documentation.

Nathan

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On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Jill Heske <jheske at mindspring.com> wrote:

>  Nathan,
>
> Thanks very much for the reply.  Do you know whether the API is documented,
> or if there is any sample code showing how to use it?  I wonder if I could
> use it from something like C++ builder.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> -Jill
>
>
> Nathan Buchanan wrote:
>
> I'd also mention that there is a full c api available for accessing a
> gnucash data file.
>
> Nathan
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Eric Anopolsky <erpo41 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:59 -0700, jheske wrote:
>> > I am developing software for a small law practice.  GnuCash seems like a
>> > great solution for the Accounting side, but I am also developing a set
>> of
>> > apps for document processing based on OpenOffice. I need to do things
>> like
>> > personalized contracts, non-disclosures, and other correspondence, all
>> of
>> > which will pull customer details from a database.  Is there any way I
>> can
>> > access GC's customer contact data so I can access it for my other apps?
>>  Or
>> > do I really need to maintain the accounting and the doc processing with
>> two
>> > separate versions of the same customer data?
>> >
>> > I haven't even installed GC yet as I'm still in the investigation phase,
>> so
>> > I'm not likely to understand too much jargon at this point.  Thanks so
>> much
>> > for any guidance!
>>
>>  Gnucash stores its data in a gzip'd XML file so it shouldn't be too hard
>> to extract the information you need. I don't know anything about
>> extending openoffice, so I can't help you there.
>>
>> There has been some talk of future versions of gnucash moving to a
>> relational database (possibly sqlite) to store the information that's
>> currently in the XML file, so you may have to update your software at
>> some point.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Eric
>>
>>
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