import2ledger/TODO.rst
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TODO
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Template multiplexing with action hooks
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* Add a hook that simply reads information from a configuration file section ``[template variables]`` and adds it to the entry data.
* Add a hook that changes what template to use based on other entry data. (This needs more specification.)
OR, should this be a hook that just adds more entry data, and trusts the Ledger entry template to use it?
Bug fixes
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* Parsing open date ranges raises an exception
New importers
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* Stripe import via API
* This is going to require giving importer objects the configuration so they can read things like API keys.
* YourCause
* Network for Good
Other feature requests
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* Some way of preventing re-imports
User niceties
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These haven't been requested yet but it's easy to imagine how they make the program more user-friendly.
* ``load_hooks`` and ``skip_hooks`` configuration options to limit what hooks are used.
Setting ``load_hooks`` means "skip everything not in this list."
Not setting ``load_hooks`` means "only skip what's listed in ``skip_hooks``."
If neither setting is set, ``skip_hooks`` should default to a list of hooks that have business-specific logic (currently just ``add_entity``).
If a hook is listed in both, it's either skipped or a configuration error (TBD).
* Try all importers even after one fails
* Clean up error reporting on bad configuration file syntax.
Code infrastructure
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* Open files for import in binary mode; add a text-wrapping importer base
* Write a utility dict transformer. Given a source dictionary, it returns something like ``{new_key: transform(source[old_key]) for old_key, transform, new_key in configuration}``.
A lot of the CSV importers are doing this ad hoc now, so refactoring out a common way to do it could help speed up development of future importers.