commit 6051a3f71e6dd2f72073d9491fa3adf4d82bac99
parent c0ec8721b8ab34a3e8105473bb6358621f099820
Author: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 06:40:41 +0200
document state of wire plugins
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/wireformats.rst b/wireformats.rst
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ The TEST wire format is used for testing and for integration with Taler's
simple "bank" system which in the future might be useful to setup a bank
for a local / regional currency or accounting system. Using the TEST
wire format in combination with the Taler's bank, it is thus possible to
-fully test the Taler system without using real currencies. The wire
+fully test the Taler system without using "real" currencies. The wire
format for "TEST" is very simple, in that it only specifies an account
number in a field "account_number" and the URI of the bank:
- * `type`: the string constant `"TEST"`
- * `bank_uri`: the URI of the bank
- * `account_number`: the number of the exchange's account at the bank (for incoming transfers)
+ * `type`: the string constant `"test"`
+ * `bank_uri`: the URI of the bank (starting with `http://` or `https://`)
+ * `account_number`: the number of the account at the bank
The account number given must be a positive 53-bit integer.
Additional fields may be present, but are not required.
@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ a merchant with an account at a different bank to use "TEST" to
transfer funds across banks. After all, this is for testing and not
for real banking.
-
-
SEPA
----
@@ -63,5 +61,9 @@ contain a JSON object with the following fields:
The JSON object may optionally contain:
* `address`: the address of the Beneficiary
+The implementation of the SEPA plugin is currently incomplete. Specifically, we need a working implementation of `libebics` which is a sub-project trying to implement the EBICS [#ebics]_ standard.
+
.. [#sepa] SEPA - Single Euro Payments Area:
- http://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/sepa/html/index.en.html
+ http://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/sepa/html/index.en.html
+.. [#ebics] EBCIS - European Banking Computer Interface Standard
+ http://www.ebics.org/
