strict metadata and tags

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

Heya, has anyone already written a Beancount plugin that emulates what
ledger --strict does? Namely, that tags and metadata fields must be
predefined in order to be allowed?[^]

It's trivial to do with a plugin, but if someone has already done it,
I'll avoid re-implementing it :-)

TIA,
Cheers

[^]: ledger's --strict also requires commodities to be pre-declared, but
Beancount is strict by default in that respect, so there is no need
to emulate it.
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[Martin Blais]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 8:15 AM Stefano Zacchiroli <za...@upsilon.cc> wrote:

Heya, has anyone already written a Beancount plugin that emulates what
ledger --strict does? Namely, that tags and metadata fields must be
predefined in order to be allowed?[^]

You'd like some input syntax that allows one to declare what tags and metadata are allowed, and to constrain to those?

Indeed you could use a plugin for that.

You could also do something looser, l like allow a particular syntax (via regexp) to constrain them.

It's trivial to do with a plugin, but if someone has already done it,
I'll avoid re-implementing it :-)

TIA,
Cheers

[^]: ledger's --strict also requires commodities to be pre-declared, but
     Beancount is strict by default in that respect, so there is no need
     to emulate it.
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Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o
Former Debian Project Leader & OSI Board Director  . . . o o o . . . o .
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