FinanceFileType class

Defines Finance documents Includes the following types: FinanceFileType.XbrlFinanceFileType.IXbrlFinanceFileType.Ofx Learn more about Finance formats here.

Inheritance: FinanceFileType → FileType → Enumeration

The FinanceFileType type exposes the following members:

Constructor	Description
init	Serialization constructor

Property	Description
file_format	The file format
extension	The file extension
family	The file family
description	File type description
UNKNOWN	Unknown file type
XBRL	XBRL is an open international standard for digital business reporting that is widely used globally. It is an XML based language that uses XBRL elements, known as tags, to describe each item of business data to formulate data for report sorting and analysis. Learn more about this file format here.
I_XBRL	Inside the iXBRL, contents of XBRL are wrapped in xHTML file format that uses XML tags. Like XBRL, is the root element of iXBRL files. The XHTML format represents its contents as collection of different document types and modules. All the files in XHTML are based on XML file format and conform to the XML document standards. Learn more about this file format here.
OFX	Open Financial Exchange (OFX) is a data-stream format for exchanging financial information that evolved from Microsoft’s Open Financial Connectivity (OFC) and Intuit’s Open Exchange file formats. Learn more about this file format here.

Method	Description
equals	Implements `Enumeration.equals`
compare_to	Compares current object to other.
from_filename	Returns FileType for specified fileName
from_extension	Gets FileType for provided fileExtension
from_stream	Returns FileType for provided document stream