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This is the LibOFX library. It is a API designed to allow
applications to very easily support OFX command responses, usually
provided by financial institutions.
See http://www.ofx.net/ofx/default.asp for details and specification.
This project was first started as my end of degree project, with
the objective to add OFX support to GnuCash http://www.gnucash.org/
If you can read French, the original project presentation is included
in the doc directory.
I finally decided to make it into a generic library, so all OpenSource
financial software can benefit.
LibOFX is based on the excellent OpenSP library written by James Clark,
and now part of the OpenJADE http://openjade.sourceforge.net/ project.
OpenSP by itself is not widely distributed. OpenJADE 1.3.1 includes a
version on OpenSP that will link, however, it has some major problems
with LibOFX and isn't recommended. Since LibOFX uses the generic
interface to OpenSP, it should be compatible with all recent versions
of OpenSP (It has been developed with OpenSP-1.5pre5). LibOFX is
written in C++, but provides a C style interface usable transparently
from both C and C++ using a single include file.
In addition to the library, two utilities are included with libofx
ofxdump:
ofxdump prints to stdout, in human readable form, everything the
library understands about a particular ofx response file, and sends
errors to stderr. It is as C++ code example and demo of the library
(it uses every functions and every structures of LibOFX).
ofx2qif:
ofx2qif is a OFX 'file' to QIF (Quicken Interchange Format) converter.
It was written as a C code example, and as a way for LibOFX to
immediately provide something useful, as an incentive for people to
try out the library. It is not recommended that financial software
use the output of this utility for OFX support. The QIF file format
is very primitive, and much information is lost.
The utility curently supports every tansaction tags of the qif format
except the address lines, and supports many of the tags of !Account.
It should generate QIF files that will import sucesfully in just
about every software with QIF support.
LibOFX strives to achieve the following design goals:
* Simplicity:
OFX is a VERY complex spec. However, few if any software needs all this
complexity. The library tries to hide this complexity by "flattening" the
data structures, doing timezone conversions, currency conversion, etc.
* Data directly usable from C, without conversion: A date is a C time_t, money
is a float, strings are char[], etc.
* C style interface:
Although LibOFX is written in C++, it provides an interface usable
transparently from both C and C++, using a single header file.
LibOFX was implemented directly from the full OFX 1.6 spec, and currently
supports:
* Banking transactions and statements.
* Credit card and statements.
* Investment transactions.
* OFX 2.0
Future projects for libofx include:
* Header parsing
* DTD autodetection
* Currency conversion
* QIF import
* QIF export (integrated inside the library)
* OFX export
Full documentation of the API and library internals generated using
doxygen is available. For a quick start, you should learn all you need
to know to get started by reading the libofx.h file in the INC directory,
and ofxdump.cpp in the ofxdump directory.
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