;web: update json api examples

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Simon Michael 2020-06-06 12:54:38 -07:00
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@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ You can get JSON data from these routes:
/accounttransactions/ACCOUNTNAME
```
Eg, all account names in the journal (similar to the [accounts](hledger.html#accounts) command):
Eg, all account names in the journal (similar to the [accounts](hledger.html#accounts) command).
(hledger-web's JSON does not include newlines, here we use python to prettify it):
```shell
$ curl -s http://127.0.0.1:5000/accountnames | python -m json.tool
@ -289,23 +290,15 @@ You can add a new transaction to the journal with a PUT request to `/add`,
if hledger-web was started with the `add` capability (enabled by default).
The payload must be the full, exact JSON representation of a hledger transaction
(partial data won't do).
You can get sample JSON from `/transactions` or `/accounttransactions`,
or you can export it with hledger-lib's `writeJsonFile` helper, like so:
You can get sample JSON from hledger-web's `/transactions` or `/accounttransactions`,
or you can export it with hledger-lib, eg like so:
```shell
$ make ghci-web
>>> import Hledger
>>> writeJsonFile "txn.json" (head $ jtxns samplejournal) -- export samplejournal's first txn
.../hledger$ stack ghci hledger-lib
>>> writeJsonFile "txn.json" (head $ jtxns samplejournal)
>>> :q
```
If you like, reformat the json to make it human-readable:
```shell
$ python -m json.tool txn.json >pretty
$ mv pretty txn.json
```
Here's how it looks as of hledger-1.17
(remember, this JSON corresponds to hledger's
[Transaction](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-lib-1.17.1/docs/Hledger-Data-Types.html#t:Transaction)
@ -313,89 +306,89 @@ and related data types):
```json
{
"tcode": "",
"tcomment": "",
"tdate": "2008-01-01",
"tdate2": null,
"tdescription": "income",
"tindex": 1,
"tpostings": [
{
"paccount": "assets:bank:checking",
"pbalanceassertion": null,
"pstatus": "Unmarked",
"pamount": [
{
"acommodity": "$",
"aismultiplier": false,
"aprice": null,
"acommodity": "$",
"aquantity": {
"decimalMantissa": 10000000000,
"floatingPoint": 1,
"decimalPlaces": 10,
"floatingPoint": 1
"decimalMantissa": 10000000000
},
"aismultiplier": false,
"astyle": {
"ascommodityside": "L",
"ascommodityspaced": false,
"asdecimalpoint": ".",
"asdigitgroups": null,
"asprecision": 2
"ascommodityspaced": false,
"asprecision": 2,
"asdecimalpoint": "."
}
}
],
"pbalanceassertion": null,
"pcomment": "",
"pdate": null,
"pdate2": null,
"poriginal": null,
"pstatus": "Unmarked",
"ptags": [],
"ptransaction_": "1",
"ptype": "RegularPosting"
"paccount": "assets:bank:checking",
"pdate": null,
"ptype": "RegularPosting",
"pcomment": "",
"pdate2": null,
"ptags": [],
"poriginal": null
},
{
"paccount": "income:salary",
"pbalanceassertion": null,
"pstatus": "Unmarked",
"pamount": [
{
"acommodity": "$",
"aismultiplier": false,
"aprice": null,
"acommodity": "$",
"aquantity": {
"decimalMantissa": -10000000000,
"floatingPoint": -1,
"decimalPlaces": 10,
"floatingPoint": -1
"decimalMantissa": -10000000000
},
"aismultiplier": false,
"astyle": {
"ascommodityside": "L",
"ascommodityspaced": false,
"asdecimalpoint": ".",
"asdigitgroups": null,
"asprecision": 2
"ascommodityspaced": false,
"asprecision": 2,
"asdecimalpoint": "."
}
}
],
"pbalanceassertion": null,
"pcomment": "",
"pdate": null,
"pdate2": null,
"poriginal": null,
"pstatus": "Unmarked",
"ptags": [],
"ptransaction_": "1",
"ptype": "RegularPosting"
"paccount": "income:salary",
"pdate": null,
"ptype": "RegularPosting",
"pcomment": "",
"pdate2": null,
"ptags": [],
"poriginal": null
}
],
"tprecedingcomment": "",
"ttags": [],
"tsourcepos": {
"tag": "JournalSourcePos",
"contents": [
"",
[
1,
1
]
],
"tag": "JournalSourcePos"
]
},
"tstatus": "Unmarked",
"ttags": []
"tdate": "2008-01-01",
"tcode": "",
"tindex": 1,
"tprecedingcomment": "",
"tdate2": null,
"tdescription": "income",
"tstatus": "Unmarked"
}
```