I think that I need to spend more time examining the transactions that had their memos dropped during import to see if I can find a threshold string length, then file a bug report asking for a short term fix truncating strings rather than dropping them, and a long term fix accepting up to the 256 character max and truncating after that.
David C On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 10:44 PM David Reiser <dbrei...@icloud.com> wrote: > The OFX 2.1.1 standard limits <MEMO> elements to a maximum of 255 > alphanumeric characters. Today’s principles are different from those of a > couple (or more) decades ago when these standards were started and both > memory and storage were orders of magnitude more expensive than they are > now. > > > -- > Dave Reiser > dbrei...@icloud.com > > > > > > > On Jan 16, 2019, at 11:09 PM, David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> > wrote: > > > > 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: > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 4:36 PM David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com > wrote: > >>> David > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Have you tried examining the file with ofxdump? If you are on Linux, > it can > >>> > >>> be installed with "sudo apt install ofx". Not sure about how to get > it for > >>> > >>> WIndows or MacOS. It will dump to stdout whatever ofxdump can determine > >>> > >>> about an ofx response file including error messages. It tests > conformance > >>> > >>> with the libofx librarryofxdump. You may need to use it with the debug > >>> > >>> switch and possibly the parsing messages if using it without the > optional > >>> > >>> switches doesn't give enough info. I.e. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> $ofxdump --msg_debug --msg_parser<filename> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> David Cousens > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ----- > >>> > >>> David Cousens > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>> Sent from: > http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> > >>> gnucash-user mailing list > >>> > >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org > >>> > >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >>> > >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >>> > >>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > >>> > >>> ----- > >>> > >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >>> > >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >> > >> David, > >> > >> 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. > >> > >> 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. > >> > >> If that is true, I would hope that it would truncate strings rather > than drop them. > >> > >> David C arlson > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
