From 6dc0871f2634530522671963d8283f704f766123 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 06:11:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add routine to convert account type string to enum

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@3478 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd
---
 src/engine/Account.c | 11 +++++++++++
 src/engine/Account.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/engine/Account.c b/src/engine/Account.c
index 620c22f0e6..3db7c5676d 100644
--- a/src/engine/Account.c
+++ b/src/engine/Account.c
@@ -1453,6 +1453,17 @@ xaccAccountStringToType(const char* str, int *type) {
 
 #undef GNC_RETURN_ON_MATCH
 
+/* impedance mismatch is a source of loss */
+GNCAccountType
+xaccAccountStringToEnum(const char* str) 
+{
+  int type;
+  gboolean rc;
+  rc = xaccAccountStringToType(str, &type);
+  if (FALSE == rc) return BAD_TYPE;
+  return ((GNCAccountType) type);
+}
+
 /********************************************************************\
 \********************************************************************/
 
diff --git a/src/engine/Account.h b/src/engine/Account.h
index 8400df8991..50ca7d91f9 100644
--- a/src/engine/Account.h
+++ b/src/engine/Account.h
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ char * xaccAccountGetTypeStr (int type); /* GUI names */
    "INCOME". */
 char *   xaccAccountTypeEnumAsString (int type); 
 gboolean xaccAccountStringToType (const char* str, int *type);
+GNCAccountType xaccAccountStringToEnum (const char* str);
 
 gboolean xaccAccountTypesCompatible (int parent_type, int child_type);