Does anybody use (number, currency) amounts in metadata?

[Martin Blais]

e.g. 

  2021-01-02 * "Some transaction"

    real_value: 123.45 USD

    ...

Does anyone use an Amount type as a metadata value?

(If I can remove it in the new version it'll simplify grammar.)

[Ben Blount]

I don't, and it seems like it would be fine to have a single valued metadata. I assume the grammar will require the key to be a string, but the values can be dates, bool, ints, floats etc?

If there are folks that rely on this, there's a workaround of breaking it into 2 metadata where knowing the currency is important:

  2021-01-02 * "Some transaction"

    real_value_number: 123.45

    real_value_currency: "USD"

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[Patrick Ruckstuhl]

Similar here, in my case I use already a string for it, this is only informational so a string is good enough.

[redst...@gmail.com]

Yes, I do, and I have scripting that works with these as well. I won't complain much if it's removed though, and can use a workaround like the one Ben suggested.

Same question as Ben: I assumed the grammar will still allow all remaining datatypes like dates, bool, ints, etc.?

[Daniele Nicolodi]

I use it a lot. I could live without it, but if I would need to name a
thing related to metadata to get rid off, I would choose the support for
expressions as metadata values.

Does the grammar simplification come from a reduction of the
shift/reduce conflicts or is it something else?

PS: have you seen my email about bean-query or is Gmail having another
bad period with my mailserver?

Cheers,
Dan

[Martin Blais]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 8:48 PM Daniele Nicolodi <dan...@grinta.net> wrote:

On 23/09/2021 22:54, Martin Blais wrote:
> e.g. 
>
>   2021-01-02 * "Some transaction"
>     real_value: 123.45 USD
>     ...
>
> Does anyone use an Amount type as a metadata value?
> (If I can remove it in the new version it'll simplify grammar.)

I use it a lot. I could live without it, but if I would need to name a
thing related to metadata to get rid off, I would choose the support for
expressions as metadata values.

Thanks everyone, I'll try to keep it in the syntax, all the feedback is useful.

Does the grammar simplification come from a reduction of the 

shift/reduce conflicts or is it something else?

Yes, one of those.

I'll find a way.

 

PS: have you seen my email about bean-query or is Gmail having another
bad period with my mailserver?

I have it, that inbox is a jungle my friend, trying to prioritize, i'll respond eventually.

 

Cheers,
Dan

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[James Cook]

I use it a bit with plugins I wrote, but could switch to a workaround
if needed.

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[Martin Michlmayr]

* Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> [2021-09-23 16:54]:

> Does anyone use an Amount type as a metadata value?

I use that feature for a non-profit. Our books are in USD but some
payments are in other currencies via Wise and I use meta-data to track
that and run some checks.

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[Martin Blais]

Got it, I've managed to make it work and will keep it.

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