Tackler-NG: Tackler CLI Application

Tackler-ng is an accounting engine and reporting tool for text based double-entry accounting.

Project Status

The rusty Tackler-NG is in feature parity with old scala based Tackler CLI application.

Especially the Tackler Journal Format is fully supported, and also all transaction storage backends are supported:

• FS backend (filesystem based)
• Git backend (native Gitoxide based support for Git SCM)

See tackler --help and Tackler Configuration how to use these.

All reports and exports are supported:

• Reports
  • Balance
  • Balance Group
  • Register
• Exports
  • Equity
  • Identity

Other supported notable features are:

• Handling Commodities and Shares
• Transaction Filters
• Transacation Geo Location and Transaction Geo Filters

AS THIS IS TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW RELEASE, THERE COULD BE MISSING FEATURES AND INCONSISTENCIES WITH EXISTING TACKLER IMPLEMENTATION.

Build and install tackler

# Get the source code
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/e257-fi/tackler-ng

cd tackler-ng

# Check the latest relase version, format is YY-MM-<digit>
git tag -l

# Select the latest release, e.g. v24.11.1
git checkout v24.11.1

# Build tackler on the workspace root
cargo build --release --locked --bin tackler

# Check the version info
target/release/tackler --version

Simple example

This setup doesn't have any check enabled, and it uses filesystem storage as transaction storage.

Command

target/release/tackler --config examples/simple.toml

Output

**********************************************************************************

Balance Report
--------------
                 0.00   12.00  Expenses:Food
                12.00   12.00  Expenses:Food:Groceries
                 0.00    3.32  Expenses:Sweets
                 2.12    2.12  Expenses:Sweets:Ice·cream
                 1.20    1.20  Expenses:Sweets:Salmiakki
=====================
                15.32
##################################################################################
**********************************************************************************
...
...
...

Let's play for real

Following examples use bare git repository as transaction storage, and also strict and audit mode is activated by configuration.

The triplet of git commit id, Txn Set Checksum and Account Selector Checksum provides auditable (cryptographic) proof of transactions used by reports.

Use Git repository as Transaction storage

Reports with Txn Checksum

target/release/tackler \
    --config examples/audit.toml \

Output

Git Storage
         commit : 4aa4e9797501c1aefc92f32dff30ab462dae5545
      reference : txns-1E1
      directory : txns
         suffix : .txn
        message : txns-1E1: 2016/12

Txn Set Checksum
        SHA-256 : 9b29071e1bf228cfbd31ca2b8e7263212e4b86e51cfee1e8002c9b795ab03f76
       Set size : 10

**********************************************************************************
Account Selector Checksum
        SHA-256 : 19d31a48bf9a8604a1128ccfd281511f961c5469748a97897a21fc0fa2a5f519

Balance Report
--------------
                 0.00   -161.0000  a:ay2016
              -6.0000     -6.0000  a:ay2016:am02
             -14.0000    -14.0000  a:ay2016:am03
             -19.0000    -19.0000  a:ay2016:am04
             -26.0000    -26.0000  a:ay2016:am05
              -1.0000     -1.0000  a:ay2016:am07
              -7.0000     -7.0000  a:ay2016:am08
             -13.0000    -13.0000  a:ay2016:am09
             -19.0000    -19.0000  a:ay2016:am10
             -25.0000    -25.0000  a:ay2016:am11
             -31.0000    -31.0000  a:ay2016:am12
=====================
            -161.0000
##################################################################################

Report with 100_000 Transactions

There is git ref 'txns-1E5' inside the example audit -repository.

target/release/tackler \
    --config examples/audit.toml \
    --input.git.ref txns-1E5

Output

Git Storage
         commit : cb56fdcdd2b56d41fc08cc5af4a3b410896f03b5
      reference : txns-1E5
      directory : txns
         suffix : .txn
        message : txns-1E5: 2016/12

Txn Set Checksum
        SHA-256 : 27060dc1ebde35bebd8f7af2fd9815bc9949558d3e3c85919813cd80748c99a7
       Set size : 100000

**********************************************************************************
Account Selector Checksum
        SHA-256 : 19d31a48bf9a8604a1128ccfd281511f961c5469748a97897a21fc0fa2a5f519

Balance Report
--------------
                     0.00   -1574609.0100  a:ay2016
             -135600.0008    -135600.0008  a:ay2016:am01
             -118950.0008    -118950.0008  a:ay2016:am02
             -135631.0008    -135631.0008  a:ay2016:am03
             -127137.0008    -127137.0008  a:ay2016:am04
             -135616.0008    -135616.0008  a:ay2016:am05
             -127154.0008    -127154.0008  a:ay2016:am06
             -135600.0008    -135600.0008  a:ay2016:am07
             -135603.0008    -135603.0008  a:ay2016:am08
             -127140.0008    -127140.0008  a:ay2016:am09
             -135619.0008    -135619.0008  a:ay2016:am10
             -127126.0008    -127126.0008  a:ay2016:am11
             -133433.0008    -133433.0008  a:ay2016:am12
=========================
            -1574609.0100
##################################################################################

Transaction Filters

Filter definition

target/release/tackler \
    --config examples/audit.toml \
    --input.git.ref txns-1E5 \
    --api-filter-def '{"txnFilter":{"TxnFilterPostingAccount":{"regex":"^a:ay2016:am12"}}}'

The transaction filter definition could be given also as Base64 ascii armored string:

--api-filter-def \
base64:eyJ0eG5GaWx0ZXIiOnsiVHhuRmlsdGVyUG9zdGluZ0FjY291bnQiOnsicmVnZXgiOiJeYTpheTIwMTY6YW0xMiJ9fX0=

Output

Git Storage
         commit : cb56fdcdd2b56d41fc08cc5af4a3b410896f03b5
      reference : txns-1E5
      directory : txns
         suffix : .txn
        message : txns-1E5: 2016/12

Txn Set Checksum
        SHA-256 : 51faa6d2133d22d3ff8b60aff57722d1869fc4677911b13161dce558e7498073
       Set size : 8406

Filter
  Posting Account: "^a:ay2016:am12"

**********************************************************************************
Account Selector Checksum
        SHA-256 : 19d31a48bf9a8604a1128ccfd281511f961c5469748a97897a21fc0fa2a5f519

Balance Report
--------------
                    0.00   -133433.0008  a:ay2016
            -133433.0008   -133433.0008  a:ay2016:am12
========================
            -133433.0008
##################################################################################

Further info

• Tackler Journal Format
• Txn Filters with Shell Script
• Tackler-NG repository
• Tackler website
• Plain Text Accounting

Tackler components on Crates.io

• Tackler CLI application: tackler
• Tackler Client API: tackler-api
• Tackler Server API: tackler-core
• Tackler Rusty Services: tackler-rs