This is for jGnash 1.x, where your financial data is stored as XML. Create a sample data file, for use in testing, and make it part of the repository.
I would have assigned this to myself, but that turned out not to be an option, at present, for feature requests, though it is an option for bugs.
This has been implemented. The test data file is "mini.jgnash.xml", and it is located in (new directory) "test/data" within the project area. Also in that directory is "mini.jgnash.xml.txt", which is a documentation file about "mini.jgnash.xml".
It took three commits to the Subversion repository to get this done: the ones that created revisions 2120, 2121, and 2122. Here are [corrected versions of] the second and third commit messages:
<quote>
Oops. In the previous commit, which created revision 2120, the file
"mini.jgnash.xml.txt" was uploaded as a link, rather than as a file. To
fix this, I am now deleting it from the repository, and will then try
adding it back in.
</quote>
and
<quote>
Once again adding the file "mini.jgnash.xml.txt" to the repository, in the
hope that this time, it will be uploaded (as originally intended) as a
file, not a symbolic link. If it works, this commit will complete the
implementation of feature request 2,991,468 (2991468).
</quote>
The actual commit messages were erroneous in that they referred to "mini.jgnash.xml", where they should have had "mini.jgnash.xml.txt". It was the latter file -- the documentation file, not the actual data -- which was originally uploaded incorrectly.