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Review find on #2187. Sweeping the pad scenarios against beancount turned up a second broken case, worse than the reported one: a pad written after a balance on the same date, serving a LATER balance. 2024-06-15 balance Assets:A 0.00 USD 2024-06-15 pad Assets:A Equity:O 2024-07-01 balance Assets:A 50.00 USD bean-check accepts that file. On main the account came back with NO balance at all and `check` reported nothing -- silently empty rather than silently wrong. The same-date balance consumed the pad, so the later assertion had nothing left. The fix already covers it, because Balance now precedes Pad and the pad stays pending. This adds the test. Both halves of the fix are confirmed by mutation: restoring Pad-before-Balance fails two tests, restoring the date-only sort in `process_pads` fails one.
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The change aligns booking semantics with beancount for the reported edge case and includes targeted test updates, with only a minor documentation nit noted.
Pull request overview
This PR fixes a booking-order edge case where a pad and its targeted balance on the same date incorrectly synthesized a padding transaction (diverging from beancount) and caused read paths to expose a “phantom” padded balance.
Changes:
- Reorders same-date directive priority so
BalanceprecedesPad, matching start-of-day balance semantics and beancount’s ordering. - Updates pad processing to sort by the canonical
booking_sort_key(date + priority) instead of date-only, preventing same-date pad consumption. - Adjusts documentation and tests to reflect that same-date pad+balance synthesizes no padding transaction, while day-earlier pads still synthesize.
File summaries
| File | Description |
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| crates/rustledger-core/src/directive.rs | Changes directive priority to Balance before Pad and updates ordering tests accordingly. |
| crates/rustledger-booking/src/pad.rs | Sorts pad processing by booking_sort_key, updates merge documentation, and updates/adds tests for same-date vs earlier-date pad behavior. |
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Review find on #2187. The issue explicitly left the FFI path unverified, noting that `expand_pads` runs its own date-only sort and could diverge from the CLI either way. Nothing there covered the case: the existing `SAME_DATE_LEDGER` shares a date between a pad and an UNRELATED transaction, with the balance a day later. It is correct -- `expand_pads` gets its pads from `process_pads`, which this branch fixed, so the decision is shared rather than duplicated -- but that was unverified rather than untrue. Now asserted, and confirmed to fail when Pad-before-Balance is restored. The date-only sort at the top of `expand_pads` is left alone. It orders the OUTPUT pairs, not the pad decision, and changing it would reorder same-date directives on the FFI path only. Whether the two paths should share an ordering rule is worth deciding on its own, not as a rider here.
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The parse-side pin added with the blank-line fix covers what `ParsedLedgerPayload` holds. `LedgerPayload` holds something else: the output of the shared `process()` pipeline, sorted by `canonical_sort_key` and booked. That gap is not hypothetical. #2187 swaps `DirectivePriority` for `Pad` and `Balance`, which reorders a cached ledger without changing a single parsed directive -- the parse-side digest does not move, and a v16 blob would deserialize into an order that build no longer produces. The fixture puts a pad and a balance on the same date on purpose: that pair is the one whose relative order the priorities decide, and on different dates the date component of the sort key settles it and a priority swap changes nothing. Verified by applying #2187's swap, which fails this test and passes the parse-side one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012nNGPA44Dt32NyxWem26xr
Review find on #2187. Sweeping the pad scenarios against beancount turned up a second broken case, worse than the reported one: a pad written after a balance on the same date, serving a LATER balance. 2024-06-15 balance Assets:A 0.00 USD 2024-06-15 pad Assets:A Equity:O 2024-07-01 balance Assets:A 50.00 USD bean-check accepts that file. On main the account came back with NO balance at all and `check` reported nothing -- silently empty rather than silently wrong. The same-date balance consumed the pad, so the later assertion had nothing left. The fix already covers it, because Balance now precedes Pad and the pad stays pending. This adds the test. Both halves of the fix are confirmed by mutation: restoring Pad-before-Balance fails two tests, restoring the date-only sort in `process_pads` fails one.
Review find on #2187. The issue explicitly left the FFI path unverified, noting that `expand_pads` runs its own date-only sort and could diverge from the CLI either way. Nothing there covered the case: the existing `SAME_DATE_LEDGER` shares a date between a pad and an UNRELATED transaction, with the balance a day later. It is correct -- `expand_pads` gets its pads from `process_pads`, which this branch fixed, so the decision is shared rather than duplicated -- but that was unverified rather than untrue. Now asserted, and confirmed to fail when Pad-before-Balance is restored. The date-only sort at the top of `expand_pads` is left alone. It orders the OUTPUT pairs, not the pad decision, and changing it would reorder same-date directives on the FFI path only. Whether the two paths should share an ordering rule is worth deciding on its own, not as a rider here.
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Nothing in the suite catches that class today — the version pin only forces a question, and it is answerable "loader-internal" when it is not. #2189 adds |
* fix(parser): a blank line no longer eats a directive's tags `convert_note` and `convert_document` collected the `#tag` / `^link` tokens on the header line by walking the node's direct tokens and breaking at the first NEWLINE. A directive node begins with the trivia that precedes it, so when a blank line sits above the directive its first token is a NEWLINE and the loop broke before reaching anything -- every tag and link dropped. That is the common case, not a corner: a blank line between directives is how ledgers are normally written. Of the three tagged `document` directives in the compatibility corpus, two lost their tags and one kept them, the one written directly under another directive. `document` has had this since long before `note` had any tags to lose, and nothing caught it because every fixture placed the directive immediately after another one. The completion test added here made the same mistake first and passed while the bug was live; its fixture now has the blank line that makes it real. Both directives now share `header_tags_and_links`, which starts collecting only once the header's STRING has been seen and breaks on the newline after it. Cache versions move because parser OUTPUT changed: loader 31 -> 32, and wasm 15 -> 16. The wasm bump is overdue -- #2160 moved the loader version and the pin and left this one at 15, so v15 is now ambiguous between the old and new `ArchivedNote` shapes and every v15 blob has to be rejected. That miss is why `directive_archived_form_is_pinned` exists. The version pin can only force a question; it cannot tell a loader-internal change from one that moves our archived directives, and on #2160 the question got the wrong answer with every test still passing. The new test hashes the archived bytes of one of every directive kind, so a layout change and an output change both fail it. Verified against both: reverting this parser fix and swapping `Note`'s two field declarations each move the digest. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012nNGPA44Dt32NyxWem26xr * test(wasm): pin the processed ledger the cache actually archives The parse-side pin added with the blank-line fix covers what `ParsedLedgerPayload` holds. `LedgerPayload` holds something else: the output of the shared `process()` pipeline, sorted by `canonical_sort_key` and booked. That gap is not hypothetical. #2187 swaps `DirectivePriority` for `Pad` and `Balance`, which reorders a cached ledger without changing a single parsed directive -- the parse-side digest does not move, and a v16 blob would deserialize into an order that build no longer produces. The fixture puts a pad and a balance on the same date on purpose: that pair is the one whose relative order the priorities decide, and on different dates the date component of the sort key settles it and a priority swap changes nothing. Verified by applying #2187's swap, which fails this test and passes the parse-side one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012nNGPA44Dt32NyxWem26xr * docs(parser): correct the rule the tag-collection comments state Both call sites still described stopping "at the first NEWLINE" as the thing that captures the header, which is the bug the commit before this one removed. They now point at `header_tags_and_links`, which is where the rule lives. Also records that the formatter already guarded its header walks on a `seen_content` flag for exactly this reason. The converter was the outlier, not the pioneer. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A `pad` and the `balance` it targets on the same date synthesized a
padding transaction beancount does not. On the issue's fixture the
account ended 60.00 USD richer -- 100.00 where beancount reports 40.00 --
and `check` reported the pad as UNUSED in the same run that booked it.
beancount checks a balance at the START of its day: `entry_sortkey` gives
Balance -1 and Pad the default 0, so a same-date balance is evaluated
before the pad exists and consumes nothing. Ours had `DirectivePriority`
Pad=2 before Balance=3, with a comment asserting "padding before balance
assertions", and `process_pads` sorted by DATE ALONE -- so a pad written
above its balance was processed first and the balance consumed it.
Both are fixed: Balance now precedes Pad, and `process_pads` sorts by the
canonical `booking_sort_key` rather than by date.
Two tests pinned the old behavior and are inverted, with the evidence in
their comments. One asserted a same-date synth exists and precedes the
balance; the ordering guarantee it was really protecting is preserved in
a new test on the day-earlier case, which is where a synth actually
exists. The other was named `test_sort_directives_pad_before_balance`.
Verified:
- the fixture now returns 40.00, matching beancount; a pad one day
earlier still pads to 100.00, also matching
- `check` still emits E2003 and E2001, which is what bean-check emits
for the same file -- the difference is that we no longer book the pad
we call unused
- booked values UNCHANGED on all four corpus files that contain a
same-date pad+balance, compared against a main-built binary
- directive order changes only in files containing pads: 59 pad-free
files produce byte-identical `#entries` output
- the four new `corpus_parity` divergences are the prebuilt component
still using the old order (`native=(balance) component=(pad)`), which
is what a correct engine change looks like against a stale component
Not fixed here, and worth stating: beancount interleaves same-date pads
and transactions by lineno (both sort at 0) while we still group by type.
That is the ordering divergence in #2149, unchanged by this.
The booked-value gate reports clean, but its axis is prices; it does not
compare balances and so does not exercise this.
Closes #2150
Review find on #2187. Sweeping the pad scenarios against beancount turned up a second broken case, worse than the reported one: a pad written after a balance on the same date, serving a LATER balance. 2024-06-15 balance Assets:A 0.00 USD 2024-06-15 pad Assets:A Equity:O 2024-07-01 balance Assets:A 50.00 USD bean-check accepts that file. On main the account came back with NO balance at all and `check` reported nothing -- silently empty rather than silently wrong. The same-date balance consumed the pad, so the later assertion had nothing left. The fix already covers it, because Balance now precedes Pad and the pad stays pending. This adds the test. Both halves of the fix are confirmed by mutation: restoring Pad-before-Balance fails two tests, restoring the date-only sort in `process_pads` fails one.
Review find on #2187. The issue explicitly left the FFI path unverified, noting that `expand_pads` runs its own date-only sort and could diverge from the CLI either way. Nothing there covered the case: the existing `SAME_DATE_LEDGER` shares a date between a pad and an UNRELATED transaction, with the balance a day later. It is correct -- `expand_pads` gets its pads from `process_pads`, which this branch fixed, so the decision is shared rather than duplicated -- but that was unverified rather than untrue. Now asserted, and confirmed to fail when Pad-before-Balance is restored. The date-only sort at the top of `expand_pads` is left alone. It orders the OUTPUT pairs, not the pad decision, and changing it would reorder same-date directives on the FFI path only. Whether the two paths should share an ordering rule is worth deciding on its own, not as a rider here.
`LedgerPayload` archives the output of the shared `process()` pipeline, which sorts by `canonical_sort_key` -- and that key reads `DirectivePriority`. Swapping `Pad` and `Balance` therefore changes the LIST this cache holds without changing a single directive in it: every one archives to the same bytes, in a different order. What a stale blob costs is narrower than it first looks, and the first draft of this message got it wrong by saying the pad AMOUNTS come back stale. They do not: `process_pads` re-sorts its input by `booking_sort_key`, the same `(date, priority)`, so amounts computed from a v16 blob still come out right. What differs is the order of the directives the cache hands back -- what journal output, `SELECT` row order and the FFI directive stream all read. A cache that returns a different sequence than a fresh run is stale by definition, which is reason enough and is the reason recorded. `processed_ledger_archived_form_is_pinned`, which landed on main with #2189 for exactly this class, failed on the rebase and had to be re-pinned. That is the guard working: the version bump was argued for in review before, and is now also demanded by a test. Also folds in two review corrections: `pad.rs` no longer claims to sort "by date" directly above the comment explaining that it sorts by the booking key, and the variant census in `cache.rs` identifies variants by `Directive::type_name` rather than `Debug` on `mem::Discriminant`, whose format is not a documented guarantee -- it also names the missing variant when it fails.
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Correction to the verification notes on this PR. I reported After So there is no known-failing test here at all; the actual state is better than I described. The tell I missed was the number's stability — it stayed 20 because the component never changed, not because the failure was inherent. Every other verification figure I quoted (clippy, fmt, typos, the 693-file format scripts, the baselines) was measured directly and stands. |
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Fixed in the rebase (d533cd4). You were right that the comment contradicted the code — it said "Sort directives by date for processing" directly above the block explaining that date alone was the bug. I removed the stale line rather than reword it; the comment underneath already states the rule and why it changed. Also folded into that commit: the |
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Four PRs shipped user-visible behavior changes without an entry: the two formatter tag losses (#2192), the blank-line tag drop (#2189), the same-date pad (#2187), and this branch's tolerance grammar (#2195). The changelog already carries the direct sibling of the first one -- "`rledger format` no longer deletes a posting's currency, cost or price when it has no units number" (#2142) -- so the omission was mine, not a question of whether this class belongs here. Each entry records the cache versions that moved with it, which is the part a reader upgrading actually needs and the part not recoverable from the diff.
* fix(parser): a balance tolerance may follow an arithmetic amount `directive_arithmetic_value` scanned to the first top-level CURRENCY and treated everything before it as the amount expression. With no currency between the amount and the tolerance, that swallowed the tolerance: `0.25 + 0.75 ~ 0.01 USD` was handed to the expression parser as `0.25 + 0.75 ~ 0.01`, which is not arithmetic, so the whole value was reported malformed. Only the currency-less arithmetic form reached that state. With a currency after the expression the scan stopped there and parsed, which is why `100.00 ~ 0.01 USD` and `0.25 + 0.75 USD ~ 0.01 USD` both worked and `0.25 + 0.75 ~ 0.01 USD` did not. `~` now ends the expression, which is what it means; the tolerance is read separately as it always was. This is what made `rledger format` emit a balance that no longer parses (#2191): the formatter emits the single-trailing-currency form, which is the beancount form and the one the parser already accepted for a plain number. Tested for VALUES, not just for parsing. An earlier bug in this same scan fell back to "take the first NUMBER" and turned `(1 + 5) / 2.1` into a silent assertion against 1 -- parsed cleanly, asserted the wrong thing -- so each of the seven accepted forms is checked against the amount it should evaluate to, with a ledger holding 0.25 confirming that `0.25 + 0.75` does not match it. Brings in the matrix-wide format-fidelity harness that #2192 could not land: it fails on `balance_with_arithmetic_and_tolerance` without this fix, which is how the bug was found. Closes #2191 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012nNGPA44Dt32NyxWem26xr * fix(parser): a price rejects a tolerance instead of discarding it Review of the commit before this one caught a regression it introduced. `directive_arithmetic_value` is shared by `balance` and `price`, so making `~` end the amount expression applied to both -- and a price has no tolerance. `price USD 1.10 + 0.05 ~ 0.01 EUR` went from a malformed-value error to silently evaluating 1.15 and dropping the tolerance on the floor. Trading a diagnosed error for a silent half-reading of the author's input is a bad trade. `ToleranceForm` now says which grammar is being parsed: `balance` stops at `~`, `price` does not. That restores the old handling of the arithmetic form and leaves the plain one, `price USD 1.10 ~ 0.01 EUR`, which main ALREADY accepted the same silent way -- `~` is not an arithmetic operator, so the scan took the fast path and fell back to the first NUMBER, yielding 1.10 with the rest discarded. Fixing only the half I broke would leave the identical silent truncation one keystroke away, so a top-level `~` on a price is now diagnosed outright. Both forms are covered, and so are the three tolerance-free price forms with the values they must evaluate to -- an error path that also stopped accepting valid input would pass a test that only asserted rejection. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012nNGPA44Dt32NyxWem26xr * test(format): raise the round-trip floor to what actually round-trips The fidelity harness guards against going quiet by asserting a minimum number of fixtures reached the comparison. `> 20` was a third of the way down from the real figure: 37 of the 42 fixtures round-trip today, the other 5 being error fixtures, so ten could start failing to parse and be skipped without the floor noticing. Skipping is exactly how this test would go quiet. Measured rather than guessed, and set just under the measured value so adding fixtures does not churn it. * test(parser): census which directives keep tags and which refuse them The failure this session kept turning up is a third state between the two: accept the tag, then drop it because the model has nowhere to put it. `note` was in it (#2160), both formatters were in it (#2184), and a price's tolerance was in it. So this counts the directives rather than testing one. Seven refuse, three keep, and each refusal is checked against its tag-free form too -- a rejection that also rejected valid input would satisfy an assertion that only looked for an error. `query` is in neither set: it accepts a tag and discards it. That is asserted here as CURRENT behavior, not as correct behavior. Which way it should go needs `bean-check` (beancount's `Query` has no tags field, which argues for refusing; a parser-lima corpus file uses the form, which argues it appears in the wild) and the container is not built here. Filed as #2194. Written as an assertion so the day it changes this fails and the census gets updated rather than quietly going stale. I implemented the refusal and backed it out: it makes `parser-lima/examples_data_full.beancount` error, and an unverifiable strictness increase does not belong in a PR about tolerance parsing. * chore(cache): bump the versions the tolerance changes invalidate Loader 32 -> 33, wasm 17 -> 18, pin 33. Parser OUTPUT moves in both directions here, which is why both caches have to: a v32/v17 blob holds a parse error where this build now produces a balance directive, and holds a silently truncated 1.10 where this build now produces an error. Either way the cache would serve a reading the binary no longer agrees with. Both `CostNumber` and `MetaValue` fixture tripwires move version only -- balance and price amounts are `Decimal`s on the directive and take part in neither archived layout, and the assertions after each comment prove that rather than take the comment's word for it. * fix(parser): a child node no longer stops the tilde scan Review feedback on #2192 was that `emit_header_tags_and_links` bailed out of its walk at the first child NODE, so it did not scan the whole header. I fixed that there and then wrote `has_top_level_tilde` with the identical `break` a few hours later. Harmless today for the same reason it was harmless there -- a price's only child node is a META_ENTRY, whose tokens are not direct children, so nothing here can see a `~` written inside metadata. But a header that ever gains a child node would stop being scanned at all, and the whole point of this function is to refuse a tolerance rather than skip past one. Also records a blind spot in the format-fidelity test, found while checking whether the tolerance clause is validated at all (it is not, #2193): a model comparison cannot see data the model never held. `balance X 1.00 USD ~ 0.01 EUR` formats to `1.00 ~ 0.01 USD`, erasing the EUR from the file, and the test passes -- both sides lost it in the parser. Which is exactly why the note-tag test also asserts on output text. * test(parser): match the price-tolerance error on its kind, not its Debug Review feedback: the assertion stringified the whole `ParseError` with `{e:?}` and searched that. Debug output carries the span and context fields too, so the test was coupled to formatting it does not care about. It now matches `ParseErrorKind::SyntaxError(m)` and searches `m`, which is the part the test is actually about. Still pins the wording -- rewording the message fails it -- so this narrows what the assertion is brittle to rather than weakening it. * docs: record this run's fixes in the changelog Four PRs shipped user-visible behavior changes without an entry: the two formatter tag losses (#2192), the blank-line tag drop (#2189), the same-date pad (#2187), and this branch's tolerance grammar (#2195). The changelog already carries the direct sibling of the first one -- "`rledger format` no longer deletes a posting's currency, cost or price when it has no units number" (#2142) -- so the omission was mine, not a question of whether this class belongs here. Each entry records the cache versions that moved with it, which is the part a reader upgrading actually needs and the part not recoverable from the diff. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
What
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padand thebalanceit targets on the same date synthesized a paddingtransaction beancount does not:
Assets:Acheckexited non-zero, but every read path —query,report balances—returned the padded figure. And it reported the pad as unused in the same run
that booked it.
Cause
beancount checks a balance at the start of its day:
entry_sortkeygivesBalance
-1and Pad the default0, so a same-date balance is evaluatedbefore the pad exists and consumes nothing.
Two places disagreed with that:
DirectivePriorityhadPad = 2beforeBalance = 3, with a commentasserting "padding before balance assertions" — the wrong belief, written
down.
process_padssorted by date alone, so same-date directives kept sourceorder: a pad written above its balance was processed first and the balance
consumed it.
Both fixed — Balance now precedes Pad, and
process_padssorts by thecanonical
booking_sort_key.Two tests pinned the old behavior
Both are inverted, with the evidence in their comments:
test_merge_with_padding_same_date_pad_balance_synth_comes_firstasserted asame-date synth exists. The ordering guarantee it was really protecting —
that a synth precedes its balance — is preserved in a new test on the
day-earlier case, which is where a synth actually exists.
test_sort_directives_pad_before_balance, wrong down to its name.Verification
still pads to 100.00, also matching — so the fix is specific to the
same-date case rather than disabling padding.
checkstill emits E2003 and E2001, which is exactly whatbean-checkemits for this file. The difference is that we no longer book the pad we call
unused.
against a
main-built binary — with a negative control confirming thecomparison detects the issue's own fixture changing.
E2003 and synthesize nothing; on the three padding cases we emit no E2003
and do pad. All four match
bean-check's judgement. That contradiction —calling a pad unused in the same run that booked it — was the issue's third
complaint.
byte-identical
#entriesoutput.corpus_paritydivergences are the prebuilt component stillusing the old order —
native=(balance) component=(pad)— which is what acorrect engine change looks like against a stale component.
Two things I want to be explicit about
The booked-value gate reports clean, and that is not evidence here. Its
axis is prices; it does not compare balances, so it cannot see this change. I
verified values by diffing per-account sums against a
mainbinary instead.Synth placement within a date is still not beancount's, and this PR moved it.
For a pad sharing a date with an unrelated balance,
#entriesgivestransaction balance padwhere bean-query givesbalance pad transaction;before this PR it was
pad transaction balance. All three produce the sameaccount total, so it is placement rather than arithmetic — filed as #2188,
along with the now-stale
pad_insertion_indexspecial case that favours asame-date balance.
Same-date ordering is still not fully beancount's. beancount interleaves
pads and transactions by
lineno(both sort at0); we group by type. This PRfixes Balance-before-Pad only. The interleaving is #2149, unchanged here.
Closes #2150