1. to find a way to attach custom metadata to some of the postings. Here is
a sample csv file (
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zGuGoUW4jNmSPjoEbw1K1fpe9jRskA1b/view?usp=sharing),
but the thing is that basically I have an installment column that I want to
attach to the posting as a metadata (below is an example of such
transaction).
2024-04-08 * "DELL" "Laptop purchase"
Expenses:Personal:Devices
Liabilities:BR:XP:VisaCard -263.0 BRL
installment: "9 out of 12"
Currently, there's no code to add metadata to postings, but it should be
simple to add. Beancount's `create_simple_posting()` currently [does not
support](https://github.com/beancount/beancount/blob/a9fd82def1aee017de1831e06a5ac4bc02def9d1/beancount/core/data.py#L522)
a metadata param. However, the `Posting` class itself
[does](https://github.com/beancount/beancount/blob/a9fd82def1aee017de1831e06a5ac4bc02def9d1/beancount/core/data.py#L191).
So you'd have to:
1. write a small function
([here](https://github.com/redstreet/beancount_reds_importers/blob/5573a63eeca572d3ac7f190e62a489427bc8bcbd/beancount_reds_importers/libtransactionbuilder/common.py#L15))
to call `Posting` directly
2. then call that function from `banking.py` when creating the postings
3. and write a overridable function within the importers to use the above.
Perhaps called `build_posting_metadata()`, which would need to know the
context (eg: whether it's the main posting or the target account posting in
the `banking` transaction builder)
2. The other issue is that I want to aggregate the transactions that have
the card_holder other than me into one single transaction with the total
value. I want to do that just to separate from my expenses categories (I
have a category Expenses:AdditionalCard for that).
The only way I figured so far was to override the Extract method
from libtransactionbuilder/banking.py, but I believe there is a better
approach.
How would you handle the different dates for each posting? And the memo?
Anyway, why not simply book each transaction separately into
`Expenses:AdditionalCard`? This will give you the flexibility to use
queries later on rather than stuff all these into one transaction. If this
doesn't work for you, could you please post an example?
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