# `Beancount.Result`
[🔗](https://github.com/thanos/beancount_ex/blob/v0.6.0/lib/beancount/result.ex#L1)

Normalized result of running a Beancount check.

A `Result` is engine-agnostic: the CLI engine and any future native engine
populate the same struct so callers never need to special-case the backend.

Fields:

  * `:status` - `:ok` when the ledger is valid, `:error` otherwise.
  * `:exit_status` - the raw process exit status (`nil` for non-process engines).
  * `:stdout` - captured standard output (CLI engines merge stderr here).
  * `:stderr` - unused; kept for struct symmetry. CLI output is merged into
    `:stdout` via `stderr_to_stdout: true`.
  * `:normalized` - engine-independent, structured view of the output
    produced by `Beancount.Normalizer`.

# `status`

```elixir
@type status() :: :ok | :error
```

# `t`

```elixir
@type t() :: %Beancount.Result{
  exit_status: non_neg_integer() | nil,
  normalized: map(),
  status: status() | nil,
  stderr: binary(),
  stdout: binary()
}
```

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