Converter to Ledger should preserve tags (was: beancount to ledger)

[blais]

Original report by Vikas Rawal (Bitbucket: vikasrawal, GitHub: vikasrawal).

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Using the following command to convert a beancount file to ledger results in stripping the file of all tags.

bean-report test.beancount ledger

It would be useful to retain the tags and make them ledger compatible.

Vikas

[blais]

Original comment by Alen Šiljak (Bitbucket: Alen Siljak, GitHub: MisterY).

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Either this or having full file compatibility (at least for the features supported by beancount) would be really helpful.

[blais]

Original comment by Alen Šiljak (Bitbucket: Alen Siljak, GitHub: MisterY).

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@Vikas, do you have a test file that could be used?

[tbm]

Can you move this ticket to https://github.com/beancount/beancount2ledger

There should be a link "Transfer issue" in the lower right corner (there's an arrow to the right).

[tbm]

Tags are preserved already:

2020-01-01 open Assets:Test

2020-07-17 * "Test"
  #foo
  Assets:Test     10.00 EUR
  Assets:Test    -10.00 EUR

results in

account Assets:Test

2020-07-17 * Test
  ; :foo:
  Assets:Test                                                     10.00 EUR
  Assets:Test                                                    -10.00 EUR

@vikasrawal can you clarify what you were asking for?

[tbm]

@mistery I'm not sure I understand the comment you made. Can you clarify what you mean with:

Either this or having full file compatibility (at least for the features supported by beancount) would be really helpful.

[alensiljak]

Hi, @tbm,

I (probably) meant that the full file compatibility would be great. If not, then at least the support for the features that Beancount has and which are also supported in Ledger. Looking back, I see that the comment is not all too useful. ;)

[tbm]

@mistery I'll try to work on compatibility (where this is possible). If you're aware of specific issues, please open bugs with beancount samples. Thanks!

[tbm]

I wonder if @vikasrawal meant meta-data rather than tags. Meta-data is indeed stripped, see #7.

[vikasrawal]

Ledger calls them metadata tags. But yes, I was referring to the meta data.

[tbm]

Ledger calls them metadata tags. But yes, I was referring to the meta data.

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

[tbm]

@vikasrawal @mistery I split out the ledger conversion from beancount into a standalone tool called beancount2ledger. Please give this a go.