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feat(returns): opt-in per-group breakdown for report returns (--by-group) - #1841
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Adds two ways to break `rledger report returns` down per group, alongside the whole-scope TOTAL. Prior art (beangrow, fava-portfolio-summary) converges on user-declared groups that bundle their income accounts so returns are dividend-inclusive; this follows that, declared in the ledger rather than an external config file (beangrow's anti-pattern). - returns-group: metadata (default when present): tag `open` directives with `returns-group: "Name"`. A group's members are partitioned by account TYPE (via AccountTypes) — income-statement accounts form the group's income scope, balance-sheet accounts its investment scope — so a group that tags its dividend account reports a DIVIDEND-INCLUSIVE return. This is the beangrow group model, in-ledger. - --by-account: one row per investment account with no income scope, a price return (ex-dividend); a quick per-holding view without tagging. Ignored when returns-group: groups are declared. Both render per-group rows + a TOTAL in text/json/csv; with neither, the report is unchanged (the whole-scope summary), so existing behavior and tests are preserved. Refactored the computation into a shared compute_group helper. Tests: metadata grouping (Tech dividend-inclusive 32.36% via its tagged income account, Bonds 10%, TOTAL) and --by-account per-account rows. 9 returns integration tests. Deferred (per #1820): true per-commodity attribution within a single account, and commodity-directive tagging.
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Pull request overview
Adds optional multi-row breakdowns to rledger report returns (CLI consumer of rustledger-returns) so users can see per-group/per-account performance alongside the whole-scope TOTAL.
Changes:
- Implemented grouping by
returns-group:metadata onopendirectives (dividend-inclusive by grouping income-statement accounts into the group’s income scope). - Added
--by-accountmode to emit one row per investment account (ex-dividend), when no metadata groups exist. - Extended integration tests to cover grouped JSON output for both metadata grouping and
--by-account.
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| crates/rustledger/tests/report_returns_test.rs | Adds fixtures + JSON assertions for metadata-group and --by-account breakdowns. |
| crates/rustledger/src/cmd/report_cmd/returns.rs | Refactors computation into compute_group, adds group discovery/rendering logic, and introduces grouped output formats. |
| crates/rustledger/src/cmd/report_cmd/mod.rs | Wires --by-account CLI flag through to the returns report implementation. |
| crates/rustledger-returns/README.md | Updates feature checklist/docs to reflect the new CLI breakdown behavior and remaining follow-ups. |
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…nciling residual Reworks the #1820 per-group breakdown per deep-review findings on #1841. - Drop `--by-account`: per-account auto-attribution is unsound (a dividend booked to a shared cash/income account cannot be attributed to one holding), and it wrongly booked the dividend as a contribution. - Grouping is now opt-in behind `--by-group`; merely having `returns-group:` metadata no longer silently switches the output schema. - Groups are built by classifying each tagged `open` against the whole scope, so they reconcile with the TOTAL: an out-of-scope tag (External / Equity / Liability) is ignored with a warning instead of being valued as a holding, and in-scope holdings left untagged collect into an `(ungrouped)` residual — every in-scope holding appears in exactly one row. - A non-string `returns-group:` value warns instead of being silently dropped. Tests: --by-group dividend-inclusive grouping, ungrouped residual + TOTAL reconciliation, and default-is-single-summary (grouping opt-in).
Rework — deep-review findings addressedReworked the grouping design per the deep review (2 decisions confirmed with @robcohen: drop
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The grouped text table appended a literal `%` to every rate column, so an undefined MWR/TWR rendered as `n/a%` — reading like a real percentage and inconsistent with the single-scope output, where the `%` hangs off the value. Add `fmt_rate_pct` (value carries its own `%`; `None` -> `n/a`) for the text row, matching render_single. CSV/JSON keep the bare numeric via `fmt_rate`.
…und reconciliation A deep review showed the "(ungrouped) residual + rows sum to TOTAL" model is not sound: per-sub-scope extraction reclassifies whole-scope-internal flows as phantom boundary flows, so groups sharing an in-scope account (e.g. pooled settlement cash) do not reconcile — and prefix-matched parent/duplicate opens double-count holdings. Reconciliation is fundamentally impossible when a flow enters a shared account that funds more than one group (the same un-attributability that made us drop --by-account). Switch to the model beangrow and hledger roi use: each `returns-group:` group is an independent sub-portfolio, reported alongside — not as a partition of — the whole-portfolio TOTAL. - Drop the `(ungrouped)` residual; only tagged accounts appear (untagged in-scope holdings are omitted from the breakdown but still counted in the TOTAL). This also removes the "(ungrouped)"-label collision. - Warn (stderr), rather than silently misreport, for the cases a reader would misread: a group that is not self-contained (shares an in-scope account with the rest of the portfolio), two groups whose accounts overlap by prefix, an out-of-scope tag, and a non-string tag value. - Docs/README/flag help rewritten; the TOTAL is documented as the whole-portfolio figure, not the sum of the rows. Tests: independent-groups (no residual), self-contained warning, out-of-scope + non-string tag warnings, income-only (empty-investment) group, grouped text path, and a positively-pinned default-shape guard.
Second deep review → reworked to independent sub-portfoliosA high-effort review found the "(ungrouped) residual + rows reconcile with TOTAL" model was unsound, and I reproduced the two architectural cases against the real binary before acting: Finding 1 — shared in-scope cash (common brokerage shape): with Finding 4 — prefix overlap: an opened parent Decision (confirmed): drop the reconciliation promise; present each group as an independent sub-portfolio (the beangrow / hledger
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…ge cases Third-review polish on the --by-group breakdown: - Income-only (empty-investment) group reported a fabricated 0.00% TWR: twr()'s unit-chaining returns Some(0.0) over an empty position. A scope that never held investment capital has no holding period to weight, so TWR is now None (n/a), matching the already-None MWR. - Grouped text table: the =/- rules were 72 columns but the data/header rows are 74, so the last column overhung the underline. Derive the rule width from the column layout. - Sanitize control characters in a group label before the text table (a newline in a quoted returns-group value could split a row / inject a line). JSON and CSV already escape it. - Warn when a group is named "TOTAL" (collides with the whole-portfolio row in text/CSV output; JSON keeps them structurally separate). Tests: assert income-only TWR is null; a new cross-group prefix-overlap warning test; and pin that a self-contained-warned group still renders on stdout.
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…sum note Round out the --by-group text output for parity and clarity (third-review UX findings; warnings stay on stderr per the independent-sub-portfolio model): - Add the Distributions column to the grouped text table, matching the single-scope output which already shows it (still under 80 columns). - Footnote the table: "TOTAL is the whole portfolio, not the sum of the groups", so the TOTAL row below the rule isn't misread as a subtotal. Test asserts both the Distributions column and the footnote are present.
Third deep review — polish (reconciliation issues did not recur)A high-effort review of the reworked design found 10 findings (1 refuted). None re-surfaced the reconciliation problems — the independent-sub-portfolio model holds. Resolutions:
Gauntlet green (clippy/doc/fmt; 15 integration + 3 unit tests). This is the third review pass; the reconciliation model has been stable across the last two. |
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crates/rustledger/src/cmd/report_cmd/returns.rs:363
- Warnings emitted for malformed/overlapping
returns-groupmetadata can include user-controlled group names. Since group names can contain control characters (including newlines),eprintln!("warning: {w}")can be used for terminal/log injection (spoofing extra warning lines). Consider sanitizing control characters before printing warnings to stderr (similar to whattruncate()does for the text table).
// Grouping is opt-in; warnings (bad tags, overlaps, non-self-contained
// groups) go to stderr so they never pollute the report on stdout.
let group_scopes = build_groups(directives, &whole_scope, &mut |w| eprintln!("warning: {w}"));
if group_scopes.is_empty() {
…l-char labels Fourth-review correctness findings: - --by-group produced two incompatible schemas: with no in-scope returns-group metadata it fell back to the single-summary object (no groups/total keys), so a JSON/CSV consumer had to branch on ledger content. It now always emits the grouped schema (empty `groups` array plus `total`); the "no groups" notice stays on stderr. - A returns-group value carrying a raw control byte (e.g. U+001B) was written raw inside the JSON string, because report's `json_escape` aliased `escape_string` (the beancount-source escaper, which only handles " \ \n \t \r). That is invalid JSON. Add a proper `escape_json` to rustledger-core (RFC 8259: \b \f and \uXXXX for the rest) and route report's json_escape through it — fixes every report JSON surface (holdings/accounts/income/journal/returns), not just groups. - Broaden the text-label sanitizer to also neutralize U+2028/U+2029 (line and paragraph separators), which `is_control()` misses but a pager may honor. Tests: escape_json unit test; --by-group-with-no-tags grouped-schema test; and a control-char-label valid-JSON test. Deferred (tool-wide, not returns-specific): CSV formula-injection neutralization in the shared escape_csv; numeric-column overflow and Unicode display-width alignment in fixed-width tables; the second per-group directive scan (-> #1832).
Fourth deep review — two real correctness bugs found + fixedScoped to hunt only for NEW defects (the eight prior resolutions were excluded). Both correctness findings reproduced live before fixing; fixed in
Deliberately deferred (tool-wide, not returns-specific — worth a separate decision):
Tests added: Four review passes now; the correctness core has been stable since pass 2, and this pass's findings were output-format/schema hygiene rather than model defects. |
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crates/rustledger/src/cmd/report_cmd/returns.rs:362
- Warnings are built from ledger metadata (e.g.
returns-groupvalues) and are written to stderr unescaped. A malicious or accidental control character (newline/ESC) in a group label can inject extra lines or terminal control sequences into the warning stream. Consider escaping control characters at the point of printing (e.g.escape_default()), so warnings remain single-line and terminal-safe.
// Grouping is opt-in; warnings (bad tags, overlaps, non-self-contained
// groups) go to stderr so they never pollute the report on stdout.
let group_scopes = build_groups(directives, &whole_scope, &mut |w| eprintln!("warning: {w}"));
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…ment Fifth-review polish (both are follow-ups to the fourth-review fixes): - The no-tags --by-group text output printed two horizontal rules back to back (the group-rows loop emits nothing, so the header rule and the pre-TOTAL rule were adjacent). Skip the pre-TOTAL separator when there are no group rows. - Refresh the comment above the json_escape alias: it still described escape_string and claimed behavior-identity, but the alias now points at escape_json (which escapes additional control bytes). Corrected, with a note not to revert it (that would reintroduce invalid-JSON output). Test asserts the no-groups text output has no adjacent rules.
Fifth deep review — converged (2 minor follow-ups)As expected, yield has flattened. Both findings were consequences of the fourth-pass fixes, both fixed in
No correctness or model defects this pass. Gauntlet green (17 returns + core tests, clippy/doc/fmt). Five passes in, the feature has converged. |
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…on display Addresses Copilot review threads on #1841: - Horizon consistency (the substantive one): build_groups iterated every `open` and first_shared_inscope_account scanned every transaction regardless of --end, while flow extraction/valuation are horizon-bounded. A historical report (--end in the past) therefore showed spurious all-zero rows for groups whose accounts open later, and could raise false self-containment warnings from post-horizon transfers. Both now skip directives dated after --end. - Label sanitization: a `returns-group:` value is arbitrary user text; factor the control-char/U+2028/U+2029 neutralization out of truncate() into sanitize_display() and also apply it to the CSV label and the stderr warnings (so a label can't inject terminal escapes or extra lines on a human-facing surface). JSON keeps escape_json (lossless). Test: a group whose account opens after --end does not appear in an earlier report.
Copilot review threads — resolutionsAddressing the outstanding inline threads (fixed in Horizon bounding (the substantive catch — thank you). stderr warning injection (group name). Warnings interpolated the raw, user-controlled group name. Fixed: factored the control-char / U+2028-U+2029 neutralization out of CSV control characters in the label. Fixed: the CSV label now passes through
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…eturned The build_groups warn closure was reformatted into block form when the end_date argument lengthened the call; its eprintln! body needs a trailing semicolon under the workspace -D warnings clippy gate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013gJH7uBBF9Xw9et9QFRcsU
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crates/rustledger/src/cmd/report_cmd/returns.rs:656
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truncatedoc comment says “The JSON and CSV paths escape the raw label”, but the CSV path actually callssanitize_display(&r.label)beforecsv_escape(...), so CSV output is also sanitized (control chars replaced with spaces) rather than losslessly escaped. This is misleading for anyone relying on CSV to preserve the label verbatim.
/// Control characters (e.g. a newline in a quoted `returns-group:` value) are
/// replaced with a space first, so a label can neither split the fixed-width row
/// across lines nor inject a spoofed second line into the text report. The JSON
/// and CSV paths escape the raw label; only the text table needs this.
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Copilot noted --by-group CSV was untested (only JSON/text were). Assert the CSV header, a group data row, and the TOTAL row. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013gJH7uBBF9Xw9et9QFRcsU
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…at handling The comments claimed JSON escapes labels as \uXXXX (true only for C0 bytes; U+2028/U+2029 stay raw) and that the CSV path escapes the raw label (it sanitizes via sanitize_display). Corrected both to match the actual behavior. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013gJH7uBBF9Xw9et9QFRcsU
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…n rustdoc Empty result now emits the grouped shape (empty group list + total), not the plain single summary; also document that grouping is end_date-bounded. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013gJH7uBBF9Xw9et9QFRcsU
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What
Adds an opt-in per-group breakdown to
rledger report returns(#1820). Tagopendirectives withreturns-group: "Name"and pass--by-group:Each group is an independent sub-portfolio: its return is computed over just that group's accounts, exactly as if you'd narrowed
--investments/--incometo them. This is the model beangrow and hledgerroiuse. It follows the prior-art direction (declared groups that bundle their income accounts, so the return is dividend-inclusive — declared in the ledger, not beangrow's external config file).Design: groups are reported alongside the total, not as a partition of it
An earlier revision promised the group rows summed to the TOTAL (an
(ungrouped)residual). A deep review proved that guarantee unsound: when two groups draw on a shared in-scope account (a pooled settlement-cash account under--investments— the common brokerage shape), the boundary flow into that shared account can't be attributed to one group. This is the same un-attributability that made us drop--by-account. So:(ungrouped)residual. Only tagged accounts appear; an untagged in-scope holding is omitted from the breakdown but still counted in the TOTAL. The TOTAL is the whole-portfolio figure, reported for reference — not claimed as the sum of the rows.openvalues the same holding in both);returns-group:tag on an out-of-scope account (Equity/Liability, or outside--investments/--income) — dropped, never valued as a phantom holding;Tests
Independent-groups (no residual; TOTAL ≠ sum of rows), self-contained warning, out-of-scope + non-string tag warnings, income-only (empty-investment) group, grouped text path, and a positively-pinned default-shape guard. Plus the engine's existing suite and the two drift-guard unit tests.
Deferred (per #1820)
True per-commodity attribution within a single account,
commodity-directive tagging, and the N+1-extraction perf pass (#1832).Part of #1820.
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