You can now write both @/@@ costs and corresponding equity conversion postings
in a transaction at any time, not just when using --infer-costs or --infer-equity.
hledger will recognise the redundancy and ignore it.
One thing has become more strict: hledger now requires conversion postings
to occur in adjacent pairs; an odd number of them is not allowed.
(Conversion postings are postings to accounts of type `V`/`Conversion`,
or named `equity:conversion`, `equity:trade`, `equity:trading`,
or subaccounts of these.)
And, --infer-costs now works in transactions with an implicit amount
(inferring costs from equity now happens after transaction balancing,
not before).
Previously, the accounts passed to account directives would be stripped
of their surrounding brackets, but the required behaviour is to have
account directives plain reject bracketed accounts. This change ensures
that accounts in account directives may not start with a bracket
character.
Currently an account name like "a:(aa)" will not have (aa) unbracketed.
However, this seems reasonable since the full name is unbracketed and
thus will not be confused with virtual or virtual-balanced posting.
"" is equivalent to writing no symbol.
But it's now possible to declare market prices for the no-symbol
commodity, which occurs eg with timedot data.
P 2022-01-01 "" $100
Hledger.Utils.Debug's "trace or log" functions are now controlled as
follows: to enable logging, append ",logging" to the program name at
startup (using withProgName). This also works when running in GHCI.
And they log to PROGNAME.log, not debug.log.
All (hopefully) debug logging in the hledger packages is now "trace or
log" capable.
This means that hledger-ui should now log all debug output to
./hledger-ui.log, with none of it appearing on the console.
Previously, CSV date-times with a different time zone from yours
(with or without explicit timezones in the CSV) could give off-by-one
dates, because the CSV timezone was ignored.
Now,
1. you can use the `timezone` rule to indicate which other
timezone a CSV is implicitly using
2. CSV date-times with a timezone - whether declared by rule or
parsed with %Z - are localised to the system time zone
(or another set with the TZ environment variable).
transaction prices.
When given --infer-costs, hledger will now separately infer transaction
prices for different prices. Given a pair of adjacent conversion
postings, hledger will check if there is a single posting with a
transaction price which matches both the amounts. If so, it associates
those conversion postings to that priced post.
If it can't find any transaction price postings which match, it will
find the first non-transaction price post which matches one of the two
amounts, and will add a transaction price to that, and associate them.
When given --infer-equity, hledger will change transaction prices to balancing equity postings. This introduces the inverse operation, --infer-costs, which will match balancing equity postings and transform them into a transaction price, allowing --cost to work properly with them. This is only a partial inverse as it needs to use some heuristics to match the postings which will not work in complicated cases.
Specifically, when hledger finds exactly two conversion postings in a transaction (by default, subaccounts of equity:conversion or equity:trad(e|ing)), it will find the first posting in the transaction whose amount is negative one of the conversion posting amounts, and inserts the corresponding transaction price.
May also fix#1154, #1033, #708, #536, #73: testing is needed.
This aims to solve all problems where misconfigured locales lead to
parsers failing on utf8-encoded data. This should hopefully avoid
encoding issues, but since it fundamentally alters how encoding is dealt
with it may lead to unexpected outcomes. Widespread testing on a number
of different platforms would be useful.
And remove the last vestiges of older more complex behaviour.
ordereddates now always checks all transactions in each file,
unaffected by a query. (But still affected by --date2).
parseAndFinaliseJournal' has been removed. In the unlikely event you
needed it in your code, you can replace it with:
parseAndFinaliseJournal' parser iopts fp t =>
initialiseAndParseJournal parser iopts fp t
>>= liftEither . journalApplyAliases (aliasesFromOpts iopts)
>>= journalFinalise iopts fp t
Some parsers have been generalised from JournalParser to TextParser.
This increases composability and avoids some ugly case handling. We
re-export runExceptT in Hledger.Read.
The final return types of the following functions has been changed from
IO (Either String a) to ExceptT String IO a. If this causes a problem,
you can get the old behaviour by calling runExceptT on the output:
readJournal, readJournalFiles, readJournalFile
Or, you can use the easy functions readJournal', readJournalFiles', and
readJournalFile', which assume default options and return in the IO
monad.
This requires checking parent accounts for any new accounts introduced by auto postings which do not exist in the original journal.
Also refactor journalFinalise to only call journalPostingsAddAccountTags once, and use fewer intermediate variables.
type:TYPES, where TYPES is any of the (case insensitive) letters
ALERXCV, matches accounts by their declared or inferred type.
(See https://hledger.org/hledger.html#account-types.)
This should work with most commands, eg:
hledger bal type:al
hledger reg type:x
API changes:
Journal has a new jaccounttypes map.
The journalAccountType lookup function makes it easy to check an account's type.
The journalTags and journalInheritedTags functions look up an account's tags.
Functions like journalFilterPostings and journalFilterTransactions,
and new matching functions matchesAccountExtra, matchesPostingExtra
and matchesTransactionExtra, use these to allow more powerful matching
that is aware of account types and tags.
Accounts, postings, and transactions can now all be filtered by the
tags in an account's declaration. In particular it's now possible to
more reliably select accounts by type, using their type: tag rather
than their name:
account myasset ; type:Asset
account myliability ; type:Liability
$ hledger accounts tag:type=^a
myasset
Accounts inherit tags from their parents.
API changes:
A finalised Journal has a new jdeclaredaccounttags field
for easy lookup of account tags.
Query.matchesTaggedAccount is a tag-aware version of matchesAccount.
directives.
Previously, you declare an account type with the following format:
account assets A
This has been deprecated since 1.13, and should now be declared with one
of:
account assets ; type:A
account assets ; type:asset
Introduce --infer-equity option which will generate conversion postings.
--cost will override --infer-equity.
This means there will no longer be unbalanced transactions, but will be
offsetting conversion postings to balance things out. For example.
2000-01-01
a 1 AAA @@ 2 BBB
b -2 BBB
When converting to cost, this is treated the same as before.
When used with --infer-equity, this is now treated as:
2000-01-01
a 1 AAA
equity:conversion:AAA-BBB:AAA -1 AAA
equity:conversion:AAA-BBB:BBB 2 BBB
b -2 BBB
There is a new account type, Conversion/V, which is a subtype of Equity/E.
The first account declared with this type, if any, is used as the base account
for inferred equity postings in conversion transactions, overriding the default
"equity:conversion".
API changes:
Costing has been changed to ConversionOp with three options:
NoConversionOp, ToCost, and InferEquity.
The first correspond to the previous NoCost and Cost options, while the
third corresponds to the --infer-equity flag. This converts transactions with costs
(one or more transaction prices) to transactions with equity:conversion postings.
It is in ConversionOp because converting to cost with -B/--cost and inferring conversion
equity postings with --infer-equity are mutually exclusive.
Correspondingly, the cost_ record of ReportOpts has been changed to
conversionop_.
This also removes show_costs_ option in ReportOpts, as its functionality
has been replaced by the richer cost_ option.
