Hi, On Montag 25 April 2011, David Reiser wrote: [...] > Before you ditch libofx, be sure aqbanking can import investment data > streams. Libofx does a decent job with investment ofx files. Aqbanking > didn't come close the last time I checked (though it has been several > months since I tried it.) [...]
Not much has changed since the last time you tried, chiefly because I don't know anything about OFX investment data. The reason why I removed libofx from *AqBanking* was the buffer-length bug in libofx which made it crash when file lines exceed a given length. That bug had its root in the design of libofx (especially regarding the use of fixed-length buffers) which couldn't be changed so easily, and since development in libofx had stalled I decided to extend my own code to also read OFX data. AqBanking's importer works reasonably well given the fact that I can't use it for live data (since I don't have an account at a bank which supports OFX). But I never really faced investment data. Some time ago somebody (I don't remember the name) submitted a patch to improve AqBanking's OFX importer in the investment area and this got included into the source tree. A few times I asked for support in this field but never got very far. I needed some information about what OFX data needs to be handled for the importer to fully handle investment stuff... AqBanking will continue to use its own OFX importer for OFX DirectConnect because it is well integrated into AqBanking and can easily be extended to maybe later handle payment requests etc. But I wouldn't remove Libofx support from GnuCash since the AqBanking importer doesn't fully support investment stuff, yet. And since libofx seems to have been revived maybe the buffer- length bug will be fixed anytime soon (if it not already has been). Regards Martin -- "Things are only impossible until they're not" Martin Preuss - http://www2.aquamaniac.de/ AqBanking - http://www.aqbanking.de/ LibChipcard - http://www.libchipcard.de/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
