[Kmymoney-devel] Online Banking Transfer

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi all,

I will answer to this question in a seperate private e-mail as there is 
another fellow German currently working on the same problem. Let's see if we 
can combine efforts at this stage.

If things work out, I will respond here with a status update. Please feel free 
to remind me in case I will forget.

Thomas


On Saturday 25 May 2013 19:06:25 christian-david at web.de wrote:

> Hello Developers,
> 
> I am around for a while and wanted to enrich KMyMoney with online banking
> capabilities – not only downloading statements but also sending transfers to
> the bank. This mail is going to be a lot of text so to the topic... One
> thing to mention: I am new to open source software development. So before I
> continue coding I wanted to ask you for your opinion on my approach.
> 
> A simple UML class diagram is attached. Described in words with reasons why
> I think this method is good:
> 
> 
> Transactions
> 
> KMyMoney knows about all kinds of transactions (e.g. national transfers,
> SEPA- transfers, other kinds of international transfers), and offers the UI
> to create these transactions. Each kind of transaction is represented by a
> class.
> 
> The online banking plugin tells KMyMoney which kind of transaction it
> supports for which account and restrictions for it (e.g. max. amount per
> transaction, number of purpose lines). But I do not know how to that at the
> moment.
> 
> This allows to integrate online banking in KMyMoney, e.g. a warning "Account
> xy dropped below minimum saldo.", can have a button to directly transfer
> money from another account to solve that issue.
> 
> 
> accountIdentifiers
> 
> Furthermore I added the accountIdentifier classes. As far as I know only
> three types of account identifications are used (national, sepa, swift) -
> world wide.
> 
> In a later step these accountIdentifers can be added to payees stored in
> KMyMoney and used for a auto completion feature in the transaction gui
> (therefor they are separated from the transaction classes).
> 
> The class germanAccountIdentifier can be used to implement the validation of
> german account numbers and bank codes and to determine the bank name from
> the bank code.
> 
> 
> At the moment my proposal is of interest for users with German bank accounts
> only, because only aqbanking supports transfers. However, my draft can be
> transfered to all other countries as well.
> 
> 
> Are you interested?
> 
> The attached patch includes my start of the approach. It is very basic and
> does not use a lot of KMyMoney internals. Especially the implementation of
> the GUI is ugly. But the classes described above should be quite okay.
> Still it is far away from being able to be shipped to master.
> 
> Another question, can I use QML to create user interfaces? There aren’t any
> in the git repo, has this a special reason?
> 
> Looking forward to a discussion and any ideas and hints.
> 
> Greetings
> Chris
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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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