Excellent! The case I had in mind is in an importer, and thus wouldn't work because beancount.ingest doesn't support it, but nevertheless, it's great to know of a way to programmatically construct and serialize. Thank you!
On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 4:33:46 PM UTC-8 seia...@gmail.com wrote: > As Dan said, this is not possible with the beancount v2 data model. It is > however possible with autobean.refactor > <https://github.com/SEIAROTg/autobean-refactor>, which is not integrated > with `beancount.ingest` or `beangulp` but is ready to use if all you are > looking for is a way to structurally constructing beancount files and > programmatically serializing them into text. Example: > > ``` > import io > from autobean_refactor import models, printer > > total_price = models.TotalPrice.from_value(decimal.Decimal(100), 'USD') > posting = models.Posting.from_value('Assets:Foo', decimal.Decimal(75), > 'GBP', price=total_price) > txn = models.Transaction.from_value(datetime.date(2000, 1, 1), payee=None, > narration=None, postings=[posting]) > file = models.File.from_value([txn]) > > text = printer.print_model(file, io.StringIO()).getvalue() > ``` > > I still haven't got around with the documentation so feel free to ping me > for any questions. > > On Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 11:29:56 AM UTC Red S wrote: > >> On 21/01/2023 11:21, Red S wrote: >> > I'm probably missing it, but how can I create via code (eg: an >> > importer), a posting with a price conversion based on a total price >> like >> > so: "20 EUR @@ 10 USD" ? >> >> It cannot be done. >> >> It is one of the things that will be resolved in Beancount 3 so there >> hasn't been much pressure to fix it in Beancount 2. However, with the >> work on version 3 stalled, I'm starting to think to resume actively >> working on version 2. >> >> Good to know, thanks! >> > -- 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 beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/4d7f94b4-47a0-435e-b6d6-73f801583c89n%40googlegroups.com.
