Qbxml

Qbxml is a QBXML parser and validation tool.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'qbxml'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install qbxml

Usage

Initialization

The parser can be initialized to either Quickbooks (:qb) or Quickbooks Point of Sale (:qbpos)

q = Qbxml.new(:qb)

API Introspection

Return all types defined in the schema

q.types

Return all types matching a certain pattern

q.types('Customer')

q.types(/Customer/)

Print the xml template for a specific type

puts q.describe('CustomerModRq')

QBXML To Ruby

Convert valid QBXML to a ruby hash

q.from_qbxml(xml)

Ruby To QBXML

Convert a ruby hash to QBXML, skipping validation

q.to_qbxml(hsh)

Convert a ruby hash to QBXML and validate all types

q.to_qbxml(hsh, validate: true)

Caveats

Correct case conversion depends on the following ActiveSupport inflection settings. Correct behaviour cannot be guaranteed if any of the following inflections are modified.

ACRONYMS = ['AP', 'AR', 'COGS', 'COM', 'UOM', 'QBXML', 'UI', 'AVS', 'ID',
            'PIN', 'SSN', 'COM', 'CLSID', 'FOB', 'EIN', 'UOM', 'PO', 'PIN', 'QB']

ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
  ACRONYMS.each { |a| inflect.acronym a }
end

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request