Automatic insertion

[doriath]

To speed up my weekly import I am planning to implement the automatic insertion of extracted transactions to my main ledger.

I would be happy to add it as feature to beangulp, but I would first like to discuss if what I am trying to do is right.

I was thinking about following design:

• create new command, e.g. insert
• it would get two arguments, the directory where imported files are located (the same way as exteact command) and the main ledger file
• do almost the same thing as extract command but insert the transactions in the main ledger file
• the main difference to extract would be to change the per file header to include the file name that file command generates instead of absolute path to the file
• another argument would be format for a line before which we should add imported transactions (e.g. ; IMPORT: {account}).

Another option would be to somehow include the account name and filing_filename in the output from extract, and then have insert command be responsible for just merging those two files.

[dnicolodi]

Something like this has been discussed before. There should be a couple of issues similar to this one. However, making the mechanism general enough to serve more than one user is tricky. I think that the command should not exist as a beangulp framework subcommand but as a separate tool or as a subcommnad to the bean-gadget we have been discussing a bit with Martin.

If you want to prototype something I would be happy to review it and discuss further.