API: Distinguish spent & earned at /v2/chart/category/dashboard (or future v2/categories)

[dreautall]

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Description

I want to build a page which lists all categories (and the "no category" 'category') and their values during a given timespan.

v1/categories looks like the ideal candidate, however you are not able to supply a date and earned and spent are always empty. This leaves no good options:

1. Make a single API call for every category to query the category details, making N api calls.
2. Make a total of 4 API calls to v1/insight/income/category, v1/insight/income/no-category, v1/insight/expense/category, v1/insight/expense/no-category

Solution

Looking at the v2 API /v2/chart/category/dashboard looks like it could almost do what I want in a single call. The only thing missing is that it only reports a sum, not spent & earned separately.

Since the v1 api calls distinguish between spent & earned, would it be possible to add those details to that result? Or, if not, would it be possible to get a way to fill-in spent & earned for a future v2/categories call?

Thank you!

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