[GNC] Scripted price editing and adding

[Raymond Smith]

Thanks to all for the inputs and suggestions.

It sounds like I could make this work with a number of different paths, but
I'll follow the "read, but don't write" suggestion and defer more of the
analysis to the post-reading side and rely less on things like the built-in
net worth time plot in Gnucash. I'd hate to end up in a situation where I
realize I messed something up somewhere down the road and have to backtrack
my save file to old backups.

Best,
Ray

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 6:53 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> If I recall, the general advice is you can read, but don’t write.
>
> GnuCash is not yet a true database app. (that is a long term goal) Until
> then, writing could be potentially very destructive.
>
> There are some projects out there designed specifically to query an sqlite
> backend of GnuCash for custom reporting. (PieCash comes to mind) I’m not
> sure about MySQL or XML.
>
> GnuCash has Python bindings so you could roll your own solution. But even
> then, I think they are query only.
>
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Jan 17, 2020 w3d17, at 8:34 PM, Peter West <pbw at pbw.id.au> wrote:
> >
> > I’m curious about using sql scripts for read and update operations on
> Gnucash data when that data is maintained in such a database. For XML,
> similar things could be accomplished using XSLT or XQuery.
> >
> > Has anything along these lines been done?
> >
> > --
> > Peter West
>
>
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