Automated task plugin

[Jonatan Cloutier]

Hello, I'm looking at a way of automatically pulling data in my KMyMoney 
files. I already have the source data, but I'm now trying to find a way 
to get it automatically into the KMyMoney file. The main requirement is 
that I would highly prefer not to take manual action from KMyMoney.

My first solution was to move to the database back end and make sure to 
understand how to create transaction properly. But then I realize that 
the database backend is really not working properly for my need (the 
file like access kind of defeat the purpose and it is way too slow to 
open and close to be usable) digging a bit in the mailling list, it 
doesn't appear to be a recomanded way of using the software anymore.

Next I'm thinking of either creating an import like plugin that would be 
able to automatically feed itself from a socket receiving data and 
creating the required transaction, or if the socket isn't really an 
option, automatically reading a specific file. But in both cases I fear 
that the plugin framework wouldn't allow me to have that background task 
running and updating my transactions without user action.

If a user action is really needed, I might go with the specific file 
solution and it would not have any wizard or file selection modal, a bit 
like the update your accounts without the passwords.

Another thing I would have liked, would be to do that import even if the 
software isn't running (defeating all above solution except the 
database) and for that I was thinking of using KMyMoney as a lib to load 
the kmy file, use the MyMoneyFile API to make any change and save it 
back. But I'll get an issue if the file is open in the real software and 
all change will be overridden and since KMyMoney isn't developed as a 
library I expect that those "API" could be broken at any time and 
obviously that's going to happen when I don't have the time to fix my tools!

After all that being said, two main questions: 1. Is it possible to run 
a background listener/task in a plugin as described above? 2. Any other 
suggestion on how to script custom data modification automatically?

Regards,

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Jonatan Cloutier
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