Questions on API for databases query

[Prasun Kumar]

Hi Thomas,

I found usage of this in the KService::trader calls in e.g.
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> QString ibanBicData::iban2Bic(const QString& iban)
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> https://invent.kde.org/office/kmymoney/-/blob/master/kmymoney/plugins/ibanbicdata/ibanbicdata.cpp#L99
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Yes, that is where I found those properties being read for handling
queries. I wanted to understand how they are set.

To me it looks enough to install that descriptive file and KMyMoney will
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Okay, thanks.

There may be differences when installing with KDE4 and KF5.
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Can you explain a bit? Which dependency is required for KdeInstallDirs?

I am not sure if you are referring to the part that is contained in
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Yes, it's a plugin in the older version of KMyMoney in the link that I
shared. Although It's not there in the
master branch.

There it stores the iban and bic data for a payee. Your code should not have
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Okay, thanks..

Regards.
Prasun

On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 22:32, Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:

> Hi Prasun,
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> On Samstag, 29. August 2020 18:49:03 CEST Prasun Kumar wrote:
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> > Hi mentors,
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> cgit.kde.org/kmymoney.git/tree/kmymoney/payeeidentifier/ibanandbic?h=4.8,
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> > > which contains such an implementation. Adding this to ktoblzcheck needs
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> > > I looked through the implementation at
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> https://invent.kde.org/office/kmymoney/-/tree/4.8/kmymoney/payeeidentifier/ibanandbic
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> > and I had some questions.
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> > 1. How is the value of plugin variables like 'X-KMyMoney-CountryCodes'
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> > I can see that for each country there is a .desktop file
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> > ${SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR} directory which has this variable for every
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> > Is it sufficient for setting the value or is there some other code that I
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> > I looked through here:
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> > https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Services/Plugins but
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> > find self-defined properties.
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> I found usage of this in the KService::trader calls in e.g.
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> QString ibanBicData::iban2Bic(const QString& iban)
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> and other methods in this file:
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> https://invent.kde.org/office/kmymoney/-/blob/master/kmymoney/plugins/ibanbicdata/ibanbicdata.cpp#L99
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> To me it looks enough to install that descriptive file and KMyMoney will
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> > 2. ${SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR} is a part of KF5. So, should KF5 be added as a
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> > is there any smaller subset for this that can be used instead?
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> There may be differences when installing with KDE4 and KF5.
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> > 3. What exactly ibanbic-storageplugin does?
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> I am not sure if you are referring to the part that is contained in
> KMyMoney.
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> There it stores the iban and bic data for a payee. Your code should not
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> an impact or dependency on that at all (from what I see).
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> Regards
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> Thomas Baumgart
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