The account transactions report used for hledger-ui and -web registers
now gives either the "period total" or "historical total", depending
strictly on the --historical flag. It doesn't try to tell the user
whether the historical total is the accurate historical balance (which
depends on the report query).
- try to clarify naming and meaning of balance/register report modes
and kinds of "balance" displayed. Added balance --change and
register --cumulative flags to clarify report modes.
- with multiple --change/--cumulative/--historical flags use the last
instead of complaining
- register -A is now affected by -H
- options cleanups
-H/--historical now makes a single-column balance report with a start
date show historical balances reflecting earlier postings. This is
equivalent to specifying no start date, but it's more consistent.
The account transactions report (and eg hledger-ui's register screen) no
longer aborts showing historical balances when -E/--empty/nonzero mode
or cur: are in effect.
* Replace Parsec with Megaparsec (see #289)
This builds upon PR #289 by @rasendubi
* Revert renaming of parseWithState to parseWithCtx
* Fix doctests
* Update for Megaparsec 5
* Specialize parser to improve performance
* Pretty print errors
* Swap StateT and ParsecT
This is necessary to get the correct backtracking behavior, i.e. discard
state changes if the parsing fails.
Clarify the account transactions report, and don't change original transactions' dates.
Show a more accurate date in hledger-ui and hledger-web's account registers
when postings have their own dates. This is now called the "transaction register date":
the date which is displayed for that transaction in a register for some current account
and filter query. It is either the transaction date from the journal ("transaction general date"),
or if postings to the current account and matched by the register's filter query have
their own dates, the earliest of those dates.
Two fixes for this report when --real/--cleared/real:/status: are in effect,
affecting hledger-ui and possibly hledger-web:
1. exclude transactions which affect the current account via an excluded posting type.
Eg when --real is in effect, a transaction posting to the current account with only
virtual postings will not appear in the report.
2. when showing historical balances, don't count excluded posting types in the
starting balance. Eg with --real, the starting balance will be the sum of only the
non-virtual prior postings.
This is complicated and there might be some ways to confuse it still, causing
wrongly included/excluded transactions or wrong historical balances/running totals
(transactions with both real and virtual postings to the current account, perhaps ?)
This commit clarifies the account transactions report: as before the included transactions
are the original unfiltered transactions, but now the change and running balance amounts
are calculated from the report-matched postings. This fixed the limitation noted in 509f558,
so that toggling real mode in any screen could work. Then I decided the transaction screen
shouldn't show a partial transaction after all, so real/cleared filtering is no longer allowed or indicated here.
There is a limitation/bug: disabling real mode in the transaction screen
won't show the non-real postings if it was entered from a real-mode
register screen.
Amount display style canonicalisation code and terminology has been
clarified a bit. Individual amounts still have styles; from these we
derive the standard "commodity styles". In user docs, we might call
these "commodity formats" since a Ledger-compatible commodity directive
would use the "format" keyword.
To reduce noise in the "other accounts" field of hledger-ui's and
hledger-web's account register: if there are both real and virtual
postings to other accounts, show only the accounts posted to by real
postings.
Use case: in many transactions I have extra balanced-virtual postings
which adjust budget envelopes (subaccounts of checking). These clutter
up the register's other accounts field making it useless. Excluding them
(when there are also real postings) makes it more useful for me and
probably others.
The register screen is now like the register view in hledger-web (and
other accounting systems), rather than hledger's register command.
This means:
- it shows transactions affecting a particular current account, rather
than postings matching a pattern.
- Each line represents a whole transaction.
- The account field shows the *other* account being transacted with.
When there is more than one, they are all listed, abbreviated and
marked with "(split)".
- The amount field shows the effect of the transaction on the current
account; positive for an inflow to this account, negative for an
outflow.
- The balance field should usually show the current account's historic
balance as of the transaction date, even when you change the report
start date. (Not working yet - currently it always shows the running
total).
- Transactions are listed most recent first, currently.
Initial support of market value reporting and currency conversion,
similar in spirit to Ledger's. The balance command now has a -V/--value
flag that converts all the reported amounts using their "default market
price". That is the latest market price (P directive, formerly called
"historical prices") found in the journal for their commodity that is on
or before the report end date.
Unlike Ledger, hledger's -V only uses the market prices recorded with P
directives, ignoring transaction prices recorded as part of posting
amounts (which -B/--cost uses). Using -B and -V together is allowed.
A transaction/posting status of ! (pending) was effectively equivalent
to * (cleared). Now it's a separate state, not matched by --cleared.
The new Ledger-compatible --pending flag matches it, and so does
--uncleared. The equivalent search queries are now status:*, status:!
and status: (the old status:1 and status:0 spellings are deprecated).
Since we interpret --uncleared and status: as "any state except cleared",
it's not currently possible to match things which are neither cleared
nor pending.
-N doesn't seem to be used by Ledger currently; we'll
use it as shortcut for --no-total.
-T is used by Ledger to set a custom value expression for the final
total. I'm going to take it as a shortcut for --row-total instead.
Previously, a depth:0 query produced an empty report (since there are no
level zero accounts). Now, it aggregates all data into one summary item
with account name "...".
This makes it easier to see the kind of data Gwern was looking for from
register-csv (net worth over time). Eg this shows one line per month
summarising the total of assets and liabilities:
hledger register-csv -- -MHE ^assets ^liabilities depth:0
Single and multi-column balance reports behave similarly.
