A bit OT but could someone briefly explain what is the purpose of having queries *inside* the journal? Somehow I can't imagine any scenario for this and would appreciate if someone would enlighten me. Perhaps there are some useful use cases.
That said, my general approach is to separate code from data as cleanly as possible/practical. I guess that was one of the points of Plain-Text Accounting, but whatever. On Wednesday, 21 May 2025 at 9:51:42 pm UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: > As a side note, positional argument feels brittle here since it's not > really > a software developement context. I'd suggest this kind of syntax: > > ``` > 2100-12-31 query "foo" "select date limit {limit=somedefaultvalue}" > limit: "Number of records to return" > ``` > > and command would be `.run foo limit=3`. Then documentation and reporting > for errors would be much more convenient. > > Le mer. 21 mai 2025 à 21:23, Martin Blais <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > > Vibecode it! > > > > > > On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM Henry Mitchell <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Thanks for confirming this is not supported. I looked through the > issues but did not see anything like it so filed > https://github.com/beancount/beanquery/issues/249 > >> > >> On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> That is indeed a great idea > >>> > >>> On Tue, May 20, 2025, 17:38 Justus Pendleton <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> No, there is no way to use parameters in queries in that way. It > would be a nice thing to add though, so you might check the bean-query > project and see if there's already an existing request for something like > that and voice your support. > >>>> > >>>> On Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 4:22:31 AM UTC+9:30 [email protected] > wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> Are query directives and bean-query not intended to be used this > way? Or is this documented somewhere and I failed to find it? > >>>>> > >>>>> On Monday, May 5, 2025 at 1:29:18 PM UTC-7 Henry Mitchell wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Hi, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I am tinkering with migrating from ledger to beancount. In > bean-query, I see I can run a query defined as a directive in my ledger > with ".run query-name". Is there a way to have the query take a parameter > and pass it in from beanquery? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> As a trivial example, suppose I wanted to pass a number to limit > here: > >>>>>> 2100-12-31 query "foo" "select date limit %d" > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Can I do so? Various attempts at ".run foo 3" seem to fail. > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/f42bd7db-8b90-4766-917f-3b2f41912223n%40googlegroups.com > . > >>> > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Beancount" group. > >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beancount/td18CgN1y-0/unsubscribe. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > >>> To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhMQoT6vOZf7iCm%3DRhH6VpLAZKXrZS%3DbDRNWEMuiGaPJkg%40mail.gmail.com > . > >> > >> -- > >> 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CACTkciMNvzsoP24ge-T4REusz%2BC9mbcjxJvEfeEnAfcLKV-_cQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > > > > -- > > 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhORELLtuROz11rjR33WJL4VDSmMCtiq6s5E6NL-5LS3RQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/7c8a0c99-969e-4907-898b-cc98c324d102n%40googlegroups.com.
