On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 22:12, Aaron Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been working on automating some accounting tasks lately and am > curious for feedback from others on my approach, or ideas for doing it > better in the future. > > I really dislike manually organizing my ledger file. I do still want to > look over incoming transactions, but ideally would like everything else to > be automated for me - I'd like transactions to be uniformly formatted and > ordered. `bean-format` can take care of most of the former, but I've been > using `bean-query example.beancount print` (wrapped in a shell script to > preserve the options and remove trailing spaces) to do the ordering for me. > This isn't ideal since it's actually modifying the ledger in the process. > It seems like there are more possibilities for programmatically managing > your .beancount file, too: I can imagine keeping prices separate from > transactions, maybe automatically moving transactions for certain accounts > to their own file, etc. > > Is there a better way to programmatically rewrite ledgers by hooking into > pieces of the beancount internals today? If not, will v3 have any impact on > this? I'm looking at the "Intermediate Parsed Data vs. Final List of > Directives" section of the v3 document, but am not sure I grok the > beancount internals enough to understand the implications there, if any. > > -Aaron > Another example where programmatically modifying could be useful: Recently I wanted to add a stable unique ID to every posting to a certain account (as a new metadata field). In my case I was able to hack something together through plain text editing, but maybe if programmatic re-writing were easy to do I could have saved some time. (The hash-based IDs available in bean-query won't work because I don't want the ID to change if I edit the transaction. My goal is to eventually export these to a different beancount ledger I have (joint vs. personal accounting) using beancount-import.) James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAHpmPOBrAULx8Opv%2BZkcNDJs-i5%2BU9o1HT1VUqSAfHs8F7mSNQ%40mail.gmail.com.
