[Kmymoney-devel] Possible bug report (OFX imports not matching in one account)

[Michael Wolfe]

On 2/27/2013 12:44 AM, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> sorry for the delay, but I am trying to catch up.
>
> On Saturday 16 February 2013 08:47:46 Michael Wolfe wrote:
>
>> On 2/16/2013 5:59 AM, Łukasz Maszczyński wrote:
>>> 2013/2/16 Michael Wolfe <wolfemi1 at gmail.com>:
>>>> On 2/13/2013 9:52 AM, Jack wrote:
>>>>> Compare the OFX log from two different downloads.  If they match (except
>>>>> for timestamps) then there is a real bug.  On the other hand, if
>>>>> something
>>>>> like the bankId's don't match, then KMM/libofx is behaving correctly and
>>>>> you need to figure out why your bank is changing the transaction ids
>>>>> each time.>>
>>>> Hello again,
>>>>
>>>> I have compared the OFX log I sent out (working) with the current one
>>>> (still not working).  The ONLY difference between the two is that the
>>>> non-working one has an additional field in each transaction:
>>>>
>>>> <CORRECTACTION>REPLACE
>>>>
>>>> Where does this come from?  Is it recorded by KMyMoney as a record of
>>>> what
>>>> is done upon receiving the OFX download, or is it a directive from the
>>>> bank?>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the <CORRECTACTION>REPLACE command, according to OFX specification,
>>> tells the application to replace a transaction with
>>> <CORRECTFITID>##transaction-id## with the one being imported,
>>> identified with a (possibly) new id <FITID>##new-id##.
>>>
>>> In other words, for each transaction:
>>> - there should always be a FITID tag
>>> - if there's CORRECTACTION tag, there should be a CORRECTFITID tag as
>>> well. Is it present?
>>>
>>> @KMM-devel: I'm not an OFX expert, so please correct me if my
>>> understanding is not correct.
> Makes sense to me and sounds about right. Did not very with the specs and
> never heard of this tag before, so no guarantee from my side.
>
>
>> There is no CORRECTFITID field in any of the transactions.
>>
>> I think this is the issue.  The fact that it's an OFX field that
>> KMyMoney is trying to follow correctly makes sense, and it also explains
>> why there is not any problem with the other accounts.
>>
>> If I could suggest a change to KMyMoney, does everyone think that it
>> would be a good idea to ignore the <CORRECTACTION>REPLACE field if
>> there's no matching CORRECTFITID tag?
> I am pretty sure, KMyMoney does not even look at this tag. Don't know about
> libofx and need to check what it does. Do you have any version information
> about the installed libofx you are using?
>

According to the ofxdump --version command, I have 0.9.2.  I vaguely 
recall having to install from source (even though I'm running Debian) 
because the official version had some bugs that haven't been officially 
patched.  Something to do with OpenJade....

-Mike