[GNC] OFX import sometimes loses transaction memos

[David Cousens]

David

Agreed. The OFX format should in principle have no limitation on a string length as it should be anything between
opening and closing tags, but there may be on importation in GnuCash.  Not familiar enough with the OFX importer to be
sure whether it imposes any restrictions or not at this stage.

David Cousens
On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 18:19 -0600, David Carlson wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 4:36 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com wrote:
> > David 
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> > Have you tried examining the file with ofxdump? If you are on Linux, it can
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> > be installed with "sudo apt install ofx".  Not sure about how to get it for
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> > WIndows or MacOS. It will dump to stdout whatever ofxdump can determine
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> > about an ofx response file including error messages. It tests conformance
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> > with the libofx librarryofxdump. You may need to use it with the debug
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> > switch and possibly the parsing messages if using it without the optional
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> > switches doesn't give enough info. I.e.
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> > $ofxdump --msg_debug --msg_parser<filename>
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> > David Cousens
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> David, 
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> I have already examined one of the OFX files that has a mix of some trans actions with memos that were and we're not
> imported with a binary editor and found no difference except possibly number of characters in the string.
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> Right now I am away from home and cannot try OFX DUMP to see if it knows whether there is a maximum string length, but
> if there is and it is less than 200 characters I would be surprised. 
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> If that is true, I would hope that it would truncate strings rather than drop them.
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> David C arlson
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