Currently the API is not documented, nor is it (IMHO) completely stable. But I believe that it could move towards this route.
-derek Alex Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dwight Frye wrote: > > >Derek Atkins writes : > > > >>[ ... snip ... ] Moreover, the data files SHOULD NOT > >>be accessed directly by users or other applications... They should > >>use the Gnucash API. > >> > > > >To date I have had trouble finding any good information about the > >Gnucash API which I might use for accessing the data. I want/need > >to access the data in a read-only manner (therefore I won't futz > >up the data itself) but am reduced to simply snarfing up the XML > > to get the job done. That works fine, but is NOT what I would > > consider to be ideal. > > > >I sincerely don't care what the API might be. I just want to find > >a usable API which is documented. The comments made by Derek above > >give me hope that it _does_ exist, and that someone will point me in > >the right direction. :) > > > >How about it?? I need access to the accounts, the category definitions, > >and the transactions themselves. Can I do this ... easily? If so, do > >please point me at the documentation which tells me how. > > > This sounds a bit like it would benefit from a Micro$oft OLE type > interface - Isn't this provided under Gnome using CORBA. If I could > access the accounts via CORBA then that would be very very cool! > > Alex. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
