Commodities initialization list
Geert Janssens
geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Tue Aug 11 03:27:22 EDT 2015
On Monday 10 August 2015 16:29:25 John Ralls wrote:
> > On Aug 10, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Ngewi Fet <ngewif at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> > Could someone point out to me where the commodities list is found in
> > the repository?
> >
> > I tried searching the repo and can find code which seems to indicate
> > that there is a file which is loaded into the database on
> > application start. But I cannot find the list itself.
> >
> > I would like to initialize the Android app with the same list of
> > commodities as the desktop version.
> > Thanks.
>
> There’s a currency list in src/engine/commodity-table.scm which holds
> the ISO currencies. All other commodities are user-defined.
>
I wasn't aware of that file. Upon inspection it contains a list of
commodity sources (CURRENCY, NASDAQ,...).
As Derek replied the iso currencies themselves are in
src/engine/iso-4217-currencies.xml
At build time this xml file is translated into a c source file via xslt,
using
src/engine/iso-currencies-to-c.xsl
Regards,
Geert
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