Aha. With "bean-query print" I was able to determine that I needed to put
the implicit_prices plugin before the unrealized plugin. Now I'm
warning-free. Thank you!
On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 6:40:50 PM UTC-7, Martin Blais wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Matthew Harris <mharr...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> In the Language manual, you say a Price directive is synthesized when a
>> posting has a cost or price. But I get the "A valid price for HOUSE/USD
>> could not be found" warning with
>>
>> 2005-05-24 * "Home Purchase"
>> Assets:Home 1 HOUSE {100000.00 USD}
>> Liabilities:Mortgage -100000.00 USD
>>
>>
> This does not create a price directive, that's the problem.
>
>
>>
>> and
>>
>> 2005-05-24 * "Home Purchase"
>> Assets:Home 1 HOUSE {100000.00 USD} @ 100000.00 USD
>> Liabilities:Mortgage -100000.00 USD
>>
>>
> Same here.
> However, if you added the implicit_prices plugin, it will generate a price
> directive based on the "@ 100000.00 USD" and you'd be fine.
>
>
> but not
>>
>> 2005-05-24 * "Home Purchase"
>> Assets:Home 1 HOUSE {100000.00 USD}
>> Liabilities:Mortgage -100000.00 USD
>> 2005-05-24 price HOUSE 1000000.00 USD
>>
>>
> This works because you provide an explicit price directive.
>
>
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? A short example in the Cookbook would be helpful.
>>
>
> Have you tried debugging using "bean-query <file> print" ?
> This is a way you can print all the interpreted directives and see if a
> Price directive is present or not.
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 6:40:47 PM UTC-7, Martin Blais wrote:
>>>
>>> Matthew: This is not a bug, but rather a choice I made a while ago that
>>> instead of silently ignoring the unrealized gains if you didn't provide
>>> some price information, to warn about it instead:
>>>
>>> https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/tip/src/python/beancount/plugins/unrealized.py?fileviewer=file-view-default#unrealized.py-89
>>>
>>> If you prefer I could simply ignore the error here and skip the addition
>>> of an unrealized gain. Let me know if you think this is sensible.
>>> (Personally I think it's more sensible for you to provide an estimate price
>>> value for your home, every year, based on comparables.)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Jason Chu <xen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had to use the add_implicit_prices plugin (
>>>> https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/5e2dcbfc81b15cfbaa9d743ee87d8f4f26eaf0cb/src/python/beancount/plugins/implicit_prices.py?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default)
>>>>
>>>> to turn entries like these into prices.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This will work too.
>>> Unless you have some really tight and automated way to create your price
>>> entries, this should probably be welcome in everyone's file (I'm using it).
>>>
>>> Note: If you do this, make sure you put the implicit_prices plugin
>>> _before_ the unrealized_gains one, so it creates the price directives
>>> before the check from the unrealized gains plugin.
>>>
>>> I hope this helps,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You should try out my unrealized_periodic plugin (
>>>> https://github.com/xentac/beancount-plugins-xentac). Instead of a
>>>> single transaction, I create monthly transactions tracking gains over
>>>> time. It uses the same calculation code, it's just an extension to remove
>>>> the old unrealized amount and add the new unrealized amount in the same
>>>> transaction each month. I like it because it better represents gains over
>>>> time. Ideally it would update gains every time the price changes, but
>>>> that
>>>> leads to too many transactions and the plugin goes really slowly.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 1:11 PM Matthew Harris <mharr...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, Martin. I know you claimed to have eliminated a bunch of "a valid
>>>>> price for … could not be found" errors from the unrealized gains plugin a
>>>>> year ago, but I'm still getting a bunch of them in my file. It's so many
>>>>> that I'm not even sure where to begin.
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, here's one that should be easy. It's not my common case, but
>>>>> it's easy to isolate because I only have one transaction with it:
>>>>>
>>>>> ;; -*- mode: org; mode: beancount; coding: utf-8 -*-
>>>>>
>>>>> option "operating_currency" "USD"
>>>>> plugin "beancount.plugins.auto_accounts"
>>>>> plugin "beancount.plugins.unrealized" "Unrealized"
>>>>>
>>>>> 2005-05-24 * "Home Purchase"
>>>>> Assets:Home 1 HOUSE {100000.00 USD}
>>>>> Liabilities:Mortgage
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> When I run bean-query on this file, I get
>>>>>
>>>>> <unrealized_gains>:0: A valid price for HOUSE/USD could not be
>>>>> found
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I expressing this transaction correctly, and is it a bug that I'm
>>>>> still seeing this error?
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