Hi, On Thursday 24 February 2005 20:28, Derek Atkins wrote: > Quoting Martin Preuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] > Well, yes, that's a known limitation of libofx at this point in time. > Benoit would certainly like to support DirectConnect in libofx but his bank > doesn't support it (and he has very little time), so he's had little > personal incentive to actually implement DirectConnect support into libofx. > > I'm sort of mixed as to whether OFX Direct Connect should go into libofx > (where I think it belongs), or AqBanking (which already has an "initiate > transaction" model). There are certainly benefits and drawbacks to either > approach. From a UI Perspective I don't know what the differences would be > if we initiate a transaction via HBCI or OFX; I don't know whether using > the same library there would help or not. [...] I would also very much prefer libofx to do this (that would spare me of having to write this myself ;-)
However, connecting to the server, creating and sending requests is not very much of a deal. The difficult part is parsing the responses, which is already very well done by Benoits' library (which I would use for this purpose of course). My focus is the interface: Currently AqBanking supports the German HBCI protocol and a paperless exchange backend (German DTAUS). I just added the latter backend and instantly GnuCash is able to create DTAUS discs without changes to the code. That's what I have in mind for OFX as well... Anyway, I'm currently planning and gathering information, so please feel free to state any additional objections or ideas ;-) regards Martin -- "Things are only impossible until they're not" LibChipcard - http://www.libchipcard.de/ AqBanking - http://www.aquamaniac.de/aqbanking/ OpenHBCI - http://www.openhbci.de/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
