Confused about transaction/split

[Niranjan Rao]

Greetings,

I am trying to add a shares purchase transaction. I've account for given 
stock/commodity and a cash account from which money will be transferred

As I understand one part of the split should come from cash which will 
be currency or dollar value. Other split will be number of shares 
purchased for that money.

I am trying to use API (through my Java library) to create a transaction 
and not able to get it right. I am especially getting confused about the 
value and amount parts. I am not sure which field will represent the 
quantity or number of shares purchased.

Here is the general flow I am calling from Java


Create transaction - xaccMallocTransaction

Set currency as my commodity of stock - xaccTransSetCurrency

Create split xaccTransSetCurrency


Set appropriate account and parent xaccSplitSetAccount, xaccSplitSetParent


I now have three data fields available - total amount in dollar 
(moneySpent), number of shares purchased (quantity) and price (price) at 
which they were purchased. I tried various combinations of 
xaccSplitSetAmount, xaccSplitSetValue, xaccSplitSetSharePriceAndAmount


But not matter what I do, I always get imbalance record or price gets 
calculated wrong. In general split entry is wrong. Mirroring split from 
cash account looks correct. At least that account shows the entry the 
way it should be.

Can you please help me with the right method calls and parameters I need 
to pass get the transaction right. I've intentionally used slightly 
different variable names in the email so as to avoid the confusion with 
the actual parameter names used in header files.


Regards,

Niranjan

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