Regarding KtoBlzCheck GSoC project

[Prasun Kumar]

Thank you sir.
I have drafted a proposal for this project. I would like you to take a look
at it and suggest any changes before submitting it as a draft at GSoC
website.
Should I send the link here or a personal email to you?

Thanks,
Prasun

On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, 18:10 Ralf Habacker, <ralf.habacker at freenet.de> wrote:

> Am 25.03.20 um 20:36 schrieb Prasun Kumar:
> > Dear Sir,
> > Thank you for answering the questions. I have some more.
> > For the API part, should I use the KMyMoney implementation suggested by
> > you(
> https://cgit.kde.org/kmymoney.git/tree/kmymoney/payeeidentifier/ibanandbic?h=4.8)
>
> > as a reference?
> yes.
>
> It may also be possible to use that implementation according to the
> license under which it was released to have a drop in replacement.
>
> When I looked at the code, I saw a hint that this implementation is not
> thread-safe, see
>
> https://cgit.kde.org/kmymoney.git/tree/kmymoney/payeeidentifier/ibanandbic/bicmodel.cpp?h=4.8#n34
> and need changes to fix this.
>
> To change the license, for example to LGPL, you need to contact the
> author Christian Dávid.
>
> > Secondly, for adding support for additional countries, should these come
> > under iban or should I create separate files and classes for each
> country?
>
> aqbanking uses file sets for each country (see https://github.com
> /aqbanking/aqbanking/tree/master/src/libs/plugins/bankinfo/generic)
>
> $> rpm -q -l aqbanking | grep bankinfo
> /usr/share/aqbanking/bankinfo/de/banks.data
> /usr/share/aqbanking/bankinfo/de/bic.idx
> /usr/share/aqbanking/bankinfo/de/blz.idx
> /usr/share/aqbanking/bankinfo/de/namloc.idx
>
> and kmymoney uses sqlite databases for each country
>
> $> rpm -q -l kmymoney | grep bankdata
> /usr/share/kde4/apps/kmymoney/ibanbicdata/bankdata.ch.db
> /usr/share/kde4/apps/kmymoney/ibanbicdata/bankdata.de.db
>
> With gnucash I only found a dependency to ktoblzcheck, which means it
> uses different files for each country.
>
> Regards
> Ralf
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Prasun
> >
> > On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 19:32, Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker at freenet.de
> > <mailto:ralf.habacker at freenet.de>> wrote:
> >
> >     Am 20.03.20 um 19:28 schrieb Prasun Kumar:
> >      > Dear Sir,
> >      > I am drafting a project proposal for GSoC and I have a few
> questions
> >      > regarding the project.
> >      >
> >      > In the KtoBlzCheck cmdline tool, there is an option of taking the
> >      > bankdata file as an input from the user. In this case, should we
> use
> >      > the text file format as being done right now if I am not mistaken
> >      > because the user should not be compelled to provide a sqllite db
> >     as an
> >      > input file?
> >
> >     the text format file has some disadvantages:
> >
> >     1. It provides no date range (currently several text files are
> required
> >     to support valid date range and
> >
> >     2. it does support multiple languages as it is required by kmymoney
> >
> https://cgit.kde.org/kmymoney.git/tree/kmymoney/plugins/ibanbicdata?h=5.0
> >
> >     As this GSOC project is to replace raw bank data text files by an
> sqlite
> >     data base., the command line tool should get an option to use a
> sqlite
> >     database from a custom path.
> >
> >     Regards
> >
> >     Ralf
> >
>
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