feat: accounts: --types shows account types (#1820)

hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Types.hs

@@ -151,7 +151,16 @@ data AccountType =
   | Expense
   | Cash  -- ^ a subtype of Asset - liquid assets to show in cashflow report
   | Conversion -- ^ a subtype of Equity - account in which to generate conversion postings for transaction prices
-  deriving (Show,Eq,Ord,Generic)
+  deriving (Eq,Ord,Generic)
+
+instance Show AccountType where
+  show Asset      = "A"
+  show Liability  = "L"
+  show Equity     = "E"
+  show Revenue    = "R"
+  show Expense    = "X"
+  show Cash       = "C"
+  show Conversion = "V"
 
 -- not worth the trouble, letters defined in accountdirectivep for now
 --instance Read AccountType

hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Accounts.hs

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import System.Console.CmdArgs.Explicit as C
 
 import Hledger
 import Hledger.Cli.CliOptions
+import Control.Monad (forM_)
 
 
 -- | Command line options for this command.
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ accountsmode = hledgerCommandMode
   $(embedFileRelative "Hledger/Cli/Commands/Accounts.txt")
   ([flagNone ["declared"] (setboolopt "declared") "show account names declared with account directives"
   ,flagNone ["used"] (setboolopt "used") "show account names referenced by transactions"
+  ,flagNone ["types"] (setboolopt "types") "also show accounts' types, when known"
   ]
   ++ flattreeflags False ++
   [flagReq  ["drop"] (\s opts -> Right $ setopt "drop" s opts) "N" "flat mode: omit N leading account name parts"
@@ -50,6 +52,7 @@ accounts CliOpts{rawopts_=rawopts, reportspec_=ReportSpec{_rsQuery=query,_rsRepo
   let tree     = tree_ ropts
       declared = boolopt "declared" rawopts
       used     = boolopt "used"     rawopts
+      types    = boolopt "types"    rawopts
       -- a depth limit will clip and exclude account names later, but we don't want to exclude accounts at this stage
       nodepthq = dbg1 "nodepthq" $ filterQuery (not . queryIsDepth) query
       -- just the acct: part of the query will be reapplied later, after clipping
@@ -77,12 +80,20 @@ accounts CliOpts{rawopts_=rawopts, reportspec_=ReportSpec{_rsQuery=query,_rsRepo
         map (clipAccountName depth) $  -- clip at depth if specified
         sortedaccts
 
-  -- 4. print what remains as a list or tree, maybe applying --drop in the former case
-  mapM_ (T.putStrLn . render) clippedaccts
-    where
-      render a = case accountlistmode_ ropts of
-          ALTree -> T.replicate indent " " <> accountLeafName droppedName
+  -- 4. print what remains as a list or tree, maybe applying --drop in the former case.
+  -- With --types, also show the account type.
+  let
+    -- some contortions here to show types nicely aligned
+    showName a = case accountlistmode_ ropts of
+      ALTree -> indent <> accountLeafName droppedName
       ALFlat -> droppedName
       where
-          indent = 2 * (max 0 (accountNameLevel a - drop_ ropts) - 1)
+        indent      = T.replicate (2 * (max 0 (accountNameLevel a - drop_ ropts) - 1)) " "
         droppedName = accountNameDrop (drop_ ropts) a
+    showType a 
+      | types     = spacer <> "    ; type: " <> maybe "" (T.pack . show) (journalAccountType j a)
+      | otherwise = ""
+      where
+        spacer = T.replicate (maxwidth - T.length (showName a)) " "
+    maxwidth = maximum $ map (T.length . showName) clippedaccts
+  forM_ clippedaccts $ \a -> T.putStrLn $ showName a <> showType a

hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Accounts.md

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ show the account hierarchy.
 In flat mode you can add `--drop N` to omit the first few account name components.
 Account names can be depth-clipped with `depth:N` or `--depth N` or `-N`.
 
+With `--types`, it also shows each account's type, if it's known.
+(See Declaring accounts > Account types.)
+
 Examples:
 
 ```shell

hledger/test/accounts.test

@@ -30,3 +30,12 @@ aa
 $ hledger -f - accounts tag:foo
 a:aa
 
+# 6. Show account types.
+<
+account asset
+2022-01-01
+  (unknown)  1
+
+$ hledger -f - accounts --types
+asset      ; type: A
+unknown    ; type: