The query here isn't quite right, but I don't have a network connection
so I can't be bothered to do the actual research to find out how to do
the SQL correctly. Also, I don't really care until I can do more
updates, so that's fine too
We need the account ID to uniquely identify the account when we request
transactions. So now we require the user to input the data. Over time we
may be able to come up with a way to make this less onerous for the user
since, in this case, AFCU actually calculates the account ID from the
user ID.
But we'll get to that as we learn more
I tried BeautifulSoup, which was okay, but was missing an understanding
of how OFX does SGML. That's fine, writing my own parser was not that
big of a deal
This makes it so that we can add new accounts and show the accounts that
we already have. We don't do anything with them yet, but that's okay it
was interesting figuring out how to get them set up at all. I'm
currently storing the passwords as unencrypted, which I intend to
change, but it's going to take some time to research exactly how to
encrypt them so that the data is not retrievable by a bad actor with
access to the database.
This proves out that my navigation works the way that I want and that my
auto context variables are working. Currently we don't do much but say
they have no accounts, but we can build that up over time
I'm going to do server-side rendering. That means that I don't really
need sepiida in the way we think of it because I don't need a JSON-based
API to do my UI. And that's fine. This simplifies a bunch of stuff, so
I'll be happy with it
This commit breaks apart my growing list of endpoints into a new module,
vanth.pages, where I intend to keep the various pages. I've put auth in
a separate, non-pages module even though it has pages because auth is a
special beast that deals with sessions and DB stuff, so I like it in a
separate kind of module
I like the black-on-white asthetic, so let's make the dropdown menu do
that. I pulled this code from
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/9588
It works great now that I'm processing my sass
I'm going to add the SASS in a bit. For now I just want to get these
removed to make room for where I'm going to be putting the SASS
post-processed output
I'll probably use it. Fairly certain. It looks nice either way.
This breaks up the main layout to 'things with the navbar' and 'things
without' and uses inheritance to make it all work out nicely. I also
added my first static asset which assumes nginx is properly configured
to serve up the file rather than doing it through vanth
This removes some of the logic associated with using JSON based
authentication in favor of the simpler and more built-in form based
authentication that I had originally gotten working. This requires no
JavaScript from the browser, which is its own reward
I've decided I want this application to be a progressive enhancement
application. That means that I'm not going to keep dealing with the
insanity that is Javascript bundling and transpiling and building the
entire UI in JS. I want to believe I can treat the web the way that it's
been designed for decades - as a document platform with enhancement
capabilities rather than as an emerging VM
This only adds one institution that I care about, AFCU, but could be
extended to use the data from ofxhome.com. I downloaded the data from
them but found two problems. One, they work in XML, which I don't feel
like parsing, but two and far more importantly, they provide the second
piece of data I need, the routing number for the bank. That sucks. So
it's likely that if this project does well we will have more data than
them.
Eli Ribble