Note the headErr/tailErr calls will print stack traces if they fail
(small ones: five lines, one of which is the useful location info),
which may or may not be best UX.
All commands that suport csv output now also support tsv output. The
data is identical, but the fields are separated by tab characters and
there is no quoting or escaping. Tab, carriage return, and newline
characters in data are converted to spaces (this should rarely if ever
happen in practice).
Pointed out by mauke in #haskell chat: this was incorrectly splitting
PATH on windows (splitting on the : in C:\...), which meant that
people using multiple drive letters on Windows might see hledger
failing to recognise installed add-on commands.
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.
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.
This command now reuses the --infer-market-prices flag, and uses
a new --infer-reverse-prices flag, instead of the old
--costs and --inverted-costs flags, which are now deprecated and hidden.
rawOptsTo* in hledger-lib now takes a day as an argument, and does not
live in the IO monad, since it's now pure.
This is so that we can run tests containing future transactions that
won't fail as soon as ‘the future’ actually arrives.
This is done to be more consistent with future field naming conventions,
and to make automatic generation of lenses simpler. See discussion in
\#1545.
rsOpts -> _rsReportOpts
rsToday -> _rsDay
rsQuery -> _rsQuery
rsQueryOpts -> _rsQueryOpts
