Feature request: option to store raw OFX

[emin63]

I have a feature request: allow an option to store the raw OFX.

For example, if you do ledger-autosync --account <some_acct> --storeraw /path/to/raw.ofx then it would be nice if l-a could store the raw OFX data that it downloads in /path/to/raw.ofx. This is helpful for debugging and also helpful if l-a does something not quite right with the OFX. For example, I am still having some problems with fees and commissions. It would be nice if I could run l-a with the --storeraw flag to store the raw OFX it gets and then reprocess that OFX later when I find/fix bugs.

What do you think?

Thanks, -Emin

[egh]

I think this is a great idea! ledger-autosync will sometimes make multiple requests, so there might be multiple files, and I'm not 100% sure you can access the raw, unprocessed OFX using ofxclient easily. But I think it's a great idea. Unfortunately I probably don't have the time to work on this in the near future.

[501st-alpha1]

I agree, this would definitely be useful, and it also would save me the extra step of downloading backup OFX files after running ledger-autosync.

The multiple requests / files is fair, but I'd be fine with that.

If I'm reading the code right, the initial download is returned as a string, and it's not until a couple lines later that it's parsed into a Python object, so it should be possible to dump it to a file before that.

[egh]

If I'm reading the code right, the initial download is returned as a string, and it's not until a couple lines later that it's parsed into a Python object, so it should be possible to dump it to a file before that.

Your reading looks correct to me! Sorry for the misinformation; it's been a while since I worked on that cod.e