Adding expenses without adding account makes Ledger sad

[waynew]

Using Ledger 3.1.1-20160111, but I assume it's the same for all versions?

Click on the expenses page, then fill out the form. Do not check account, but do put a name in the account. Click add:

Now, click on Home.

If you have debugging mode on you'll see a stack trace. Apparently, the above will create an entry in your ledger file that looks like this:

2016-02-10 Breaking Things
    ;This will break ledger
    Taking Names                            €    1000

As there's no account to subtract from, ledger has a big problem trying to balance it:

  File "/home/wayne/programming/ledger-dashboard/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sh.py", line 516, in handle_command_exit_code
    raise exc(self.ran, self.process.stdout, self.process.stderr)
sh.ErrorReturnCode_1:

  RAN: '/usr/bin/ledger --no-color --file=/path/to/example.dat balance ^Assets --balance-format=%A %(display_total)\n%/'

  STDOUT:


  STDERR:
While parsing file "/path/to/example.dat", line 9:
While balancing transaction from "/path/to/example.dat", lines 7-9:
> 2016-02-10 Breaking Things
>     ;This will break ledger
>     Taking Names                            €    1000
Unbalanced remainder is:
              € 1000
Amount to balance against:
              € 1000
Error: Transaction does not balance

I'm just getting started with ledger, so I'm not sure if it should require both accounts, or if it's OK to have neither.

[Ikke]

Thanks for this report. I will look into it.

[MartyLake]

I can confirm this bug. By default ledger needs another account to balance with. Right now, the entry form can break the ledger file. not a big deal since it is plain text.