CSV rules files can now be read directly, eg you have the option of
writing `hledger -f foo.csv.rules CMD`. By default this will read data
from foo.csv in the same directory. But you can also specify a
different data file with a new `source FILE` rule. This has some
convenience features:
- If the data file does not exist, it is treated as empty, not an
error.
- If FILE is a relative path, it is relative to the rules file's
directory. If it is just a file name with no path, it is relative
to ~/Downloads/.
- If FILE is a glob pattern, the most recently modified matched file
is used.
This helps remove some of the busywork of managing CSV downloads.
Most of your financial institutions's default CSV filenames are
different and can be recognised by a glob pattern. So you can put a
rule like `source Checking1*.csv` in foo-checking.csv.rules,
periodically download CSV from Foo's website accepting your browser's
defaults, and then run `hledger import checking.csv.rules` to import
any new transactions. The next time, if you have done no cleanup, your
browser will probably save it as something like Checking1-2.csv, and
hledger will still see that because of the * wild card. You can choose
whether to delete CSVs after import, or keep them for a while as
temporary backups, or archive them somewhere.
May also fix#1154, #1033, #708, #536, #73: testing is needed.
This aims to solve all problems where misconfigured locales lead to
parsers failing on utf8-encoded data. This should hopefully avoid
encoding issues, but since it fundamentally alters how encoding is dealt
with it may lead to unexpected outcomes. Widespread testing on a number
of different platforms would be useful.
And remove the last vestiges of older more complex behaviour.
ordereddates now always checks all transactions in each file,
unaffected by a query. (But still affected by --date2).
Hledger.Data.Balancing.
Both Hledger.Data.Transaction and Hledger.Data.Journal are massive
module with many things in them. Placing the balancing functions, which
are conceptually related, into a separate module helps keep things more
modular.
It also reduces the risk of import cycles, as right now balancing
functions cannot depend on any functions defined outside of
Hledger.Data.Transaction or Hledger.Data.Journal, respectively, if those
modules require basic transaction or journal functions.
There are no modules which depend on Hledger.Data.Commodity which don't
also depend on Hledger.Data.Amount. Though Hledger.Data.Amount is a very
large module and might be broken up, Hledger.Data.Commodity only defines
three very small functions which are used, and so can be combined with
little cost.
POSIXTime.
This eliminates old-time, which has been deprecated for a while, from
our dependencies.
This introduces a slight incompatibility, as a small number of functions
now take/return POSIXTime instead of ClockTime. Generally you will be
using the current time, in which case you should use getPOSIXTime from
Data.Time.Clock.POSIX instead of getClockTime.
utcTimeToClockTime has been removed, as it is now equivalent to
utcTimeToPOSIXSeconds from Data.Time.Clock.POSIX.
