[moneydance] java instead of python script code and, transaction download and matching hooks

[Robert Winter]

Hi,

I guess this is an 'open mouth, insert foot' moment. I've dug into the
extensions stuff enough to realize that an extension is written in Java,
though in my (weak) defense, please note that the word 'Java' is not
mentioned on this page: http://moneydance.com/developer, nor is any mention
made of the sample code in the development kit. Seeing all the python
information, I got fixed on python based code.

-Robert


On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Robert Winter <moneydance at winter-home.info>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have some java code already written that uses the apache poi libraries to
> create an excel spreadsheet file from a tab delimited list of transactions
> in a text file. Is it possible to interface that code directly to moneydance
> and essentially be able to run one command from within Moneydance that
> creates the spreadsheet I want?
>
> I'd also like to be able to improve the transaction download parsing. My
> bank's transaction information is split between the description field and
> the memo field. I want to join those two fields and then do a keyword match
> on a list of keywords I create. Is there a callback that would activate a
> python function, passing it a transaction object, and receiving a (possibly
> changed) transaction object? Could this be expanded to give me more control
> on the proposed transaction match (matching a particular existing
> transaction or being a new transaction)?
>
> Also, it looks to me like there are situations during transaction download,
> where the transaction information gets modified permanently. What I mean is,
> when I clicked 'transaction details' for a particular transaction, I wanted
> to see the original text information downloaded, but I could only see the
> already modified data. I was pretty sure that I had mismatched that
> particular transaction, but there was no way to double check.
>
> Thanks,
> -Robert
>
>