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awkawbandClaude Opus 5 fbde9a9bb7 Write down the project's goals, non-goals, and roadmap
Several decisions in here look like oversights until you know the
reasoning: the curated model subset with everything else in `extra`, the
still-generic `chart`, not retrying `POST`, the deliberate divergences
from the official PHP SDK. That reasoning was spread across code
comments and commit messages, where it is easy to miss and easy to
"fix".

GOALS.md states:

- What the crate is for: complete coverage, and not quietly losing data,
  truncating results, or succeeding when it did not.
- Seven goals, each tied to a decision visible in the code, so the
  rationale survives the next refactor.
- Non-goals, including no sync API, no caching or ORM layer, no
  modelling of every field, and no retrying of non-idempotent requests.
- Publication posture: on crates.io, pre-1.0, no stability promise, pin
  an exact version. MSRV may rise with dependencies.
- A roadmap ordering the COVERAGE.md gaps by value over effort, starting
  with multipart uploads, which is the only thing blocking
  `create_document`.
- Open questions, left open rather than papered over: whether auth routes
  belong here at all given they are a different auth model, whether
  per-chart types earn their keep, streaming for large exports, and the
  untested `Error::PaginationLimit`.

README, COVERAGE.md, and CLAUDE.md link to it. No changelog entry: this
adds no behaviour, per the rule in CLAUDE.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-23 19:25:59 -04:00

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API coverage

What this crate wraps of the Invoice Ninja v5 API, and what it doesn't.

Full coverage is a stated goal, so the gaps below are a to-do list rather than a permanent boundary — GOALS.md puts them in rough priority order.

Checked against routes/api.php on the v5-stable branch of the invoiceninja repo, which declares 34 Route::resource groups and 274 explicit route declarations (272 single-verb, plus two Route::match pairs registering two verbs each).

Note on sources: Invoice Ninja's published openapi/api-docs.yaml is reliable for schemas but incomplete for routes — it documents /{id} and action paths only for clients, locations, and tags. Use routes/api.php and the controllers when checking whether an endpoint exists or what it returns.

All 34 Route::resource groups are now wrapped, plus users (which is not a resource group). 265 methods in total.

Resources with full CRUD + bulk

30 resources, each with list_*, list_all_*, get_*, create_*, update_*, delete_*, and bulk_*:

Resource Path Model
Clients /clients Client (+ ClientContact)
Invoices /invoices Invoice (+ InvoiceItem)
Quotes /quotes Quote (alias of Invoice)
Credits /credits Credit (alias of Invoice)
Payments /payments Payment (+ PaymentInvoice)
Products /products Product
Purchase Orders /purchase_orders PurchaseOrder
Recurring Invoices /recurring_invoices RecurringInvoice
Recurring Quotes /recurring_quotes RecurringQuote (alias of RecurringInvoice)
Recurring Expenses /recurring_expenses RecurringExpense
Subscriptions /subscriptions Subscription
Projects /projects Project
Tasks /tasks Task
Task Statuses /task_statuses TaskStatus
Expenses /expenses Expense
Expense Categories /expense_categories ExpenseCategory
Vendors /vendors Vendor (+ VendorContact)
Bank Transactions /bank_transactions BankTransaction
Tax Rates /tax_rates TaxRate
Payment Terms /payment_terms PaymentTerm
Webhooks /webhooks Webhook
Bank Integrations /bank_integrations BankIntegration
Bank Transaction Rules /bank_transaction_rules BankTransactionRule
Company Gateways /company_gateways CompanyGateway
Designs /designs Design
Group Settings /group_settings GroupSetting
Locations /locations Location
Tags /tags Tag
Task Schedulers /task_schedulers TaskScheduler
Tokens /tokens CompanyToken

bulk_* accepts any action the endpoint supports; archive, restore, and delete work on all of them. An ids list matching nothing returns an empty Vec, not an error.

Resources without a bulk route

Three Route::resource groups have no /bulk route, so they get the six CRUD methods but no bulk_* (which would just 405). These use crud_methods! rather than resource_methods!:

Resource Path Model
Client Gateway Tokens /client_gateway_tokens ClientGatewayToken
Companies /companies Company
System Logs /system_logs SystemLog

Company and GroupSetting keep their settings blob as serde_json::Value: CompanySettings is the largest object in the API, and Company itself returns over a hundred fields, so only the structural ones are modeled and extra carries the feature toggles.

Users

/users is not a Route::resource and has no DELETE /users/{id}, so it is hand-written:

Endpoint Method Needs password?
GET /users list_users, list_all_users no
GET /users/{id} get_user yes
POST /users create_user yes
PUT /users/{id} update_user yes
DELETE /users/{id}/detach_from_company detach_user_from_company yes
POST /users/bulk bulk_users yes

"Needs password" means the route sits behind the API's password_protected middleware and requires an X-API-PASSWORD header on top of a valid token. Supply it with InvoiceNinjaClient::with_api_password, which also unlocks client and vendor merge, and client/company/user purge. Note that even reading a single user is gated this way.

Entity actions

GET /{resource}/{id}/{action} exists for only four resources — invoices, quotes, credits, and purchase orders. Each gets {singular}_action(id, action) and download_{singular}(id).

Actions returning the entity: auto_bill, clone_to_invoice, clone_to_quote, mark_paid, mark_sent, archive, restore, delete.

Actions that do not return the entity, and so are not usable through *_action:

Action Returns Use instead
download application/pdf stream download_invoice(id) etc.
convert_to_purchase_order a purchase order convert_invoice_to_purchase_order(id)
cancel, history, delivery_note empty body (upstream quirk) — not wrapped

Each of the four also gets download_{plural}(&ids) — the bulk download action, which streams one merged PDF. It can't go through bulk_* for the same reason: the response isn't JSON.

Convenience wrappers: mark_invoice_sent and mark_invoice_paid.

Other wrapped endpoints

Endpoint Method
GET /documents, /documents/{id} list_documents, list_all_documents, get_document
PUT/DELETE /documents/{id} update_document, delete_document
GET /documents/{id}/download download_document → bytes
POST /documents/bulk bulk_documents
POST /reports/{name} report(name, body) → raw bytes (CSV for most)
POST /charts/{name} chart(name, body) → caller-chosen T
POST /search search(body)
GET /statics statics()
POST /emails send_email(body)
POST /payments/refund refund_payment(body)
GET /ping ping()
GET /health_check health_check()

report and chart take the name as a string, so all 32 report and 11 chart endpoints are reachable without a per-endpoint method:

  • Reports — activities, ar_detail_report, ar_summary_report, client_balance_report, client_contacts, client_locations, clients, client_sales_report, contacts, credits, documents, expenses, invoice_items, invoices, locations, payments, preview, products, product_sales, profitloss, projects, purchase_order_items, purchase_orders, quote_items, quotes, recurring_invoice_items, recurring_invoices, tasks, tax_period_report, tax_summary_report, user_sales_report, vendors
  • Charts — totals, totals_v2, chart_summary, chart_summary_v2, calculated_fields, analytics_summary, analytics_totals, cashflow_forecast, client_payment_analytics, project_analytics, project_burnup

Three of these take a further path segment rather than carrying the id in the body: charts/project_analytics/{project}, charts/project_burnup/{project}, and reports/preview/{hash}. The name argument is interpolated as-is, so pass the whole tail — chart("project_burnup/<id>", &body).

Large report exports are queued and emailed rather than returned inline; in that case the body is a short JSON message instead of CSV.

Not covered

Blocked on a dependency change

Multipart uploads — PUT /{resource}/{id}/upload exists for clients, companies, credits, expenses, group_settings, invoices, payments, products, projects, purchase_orders, quotes, recurring_expenses, recurring_invoices, recurring_quotes, tasks, and vendors. These need reqwest's multipart feature, which isn't currently enabled. This is the main reason Document has no create_document.

Resource groups not wrapped

None — all 34 Route::resource groups are covered.

Adding a new one is mechanical: add a model under src/models/, re-export it from src/models/mod.rs, and add a resource_methods! invocation in src/client.rs (or crud_methods! if the resource has no /bulk route — check routes/api.php).

Password-protected endpoints still unwrapped

with_api_password makes these reachable, but the methods themselves aren't written yet:

  • POST /clients/{id}/purge
  • POST /clients/{id}/{other}/merge
  • POST /vendors/{id}/{other}/merge
  • POST /companies/purge/{company}, POST /companies/purge_save_settings/{company}
  • POST /users/{id}/invite, POST /users/{id}/purge, GET /users/create

Individual endpoints not wrapped

  • Client extras — updateTaxData, show_settings, peppol_discovery, check_vat, vat_status, documents
  • Bank integration extras — refresh_accounts, remove_account/{id}, get_transactions/{id}, and POST /bank_transactions/match
  • Company gateway extras — test, clone, import_customers
  • Company extras — GET /companies/{id}/logo, POST /companies/{id}/default, updateOriginTaxData, POST /companies/current
  • Design extras — POST /designs/set/default
  • Client gateway token extras — setAsDefault
  • Task extras — POST /tasks/sort
  • Webhook extras — POST /webhooks/{id}/retry
  • Subscription extras — GET /subscriptions/steps, POST /subscriptions/steps/check
  • User extras (not password-protected, unlike the rest of /users) — POST /users/{id}/disconnect_mailer, POST /users/{id}/disconnect_oauth, POST /user/{id}/reconfirm
  • Preview — POST /preview, POST /preview/purchase_order, live preview
  • Activities — GET /activities, POST /activities/entity, POST /activities/notes, download_entity/{activity}
  • Email history — POST /emails/clientHistory/{client}, POST /emails/entityHistory
  • Auth — /login, /logout, /refresh, /connected_account, passkey routes
  • Import/export — /import, /preimport, /import_json, /export, /migration/start
  • Invoice extras — delivery_note, payment_schedule, update_reminders
  • Public invitation-key downloads — GET /{entity}/{invitation_key}/download for invoice, quote, credit, and purchase_order (note the singular path segment), plus the matching e-invoice variants download_e_invoice, download_e_quote, download_e_credit, download_e_purchase_order. These are invitation-key based and take no auth token, so they don't fit the client's authenticated request path.
  • Integrations — Stripe, QuickBooks, Apple in-app purchase, PostMark, einvoice (17 routes), calendar_connection, self-update, templates, hooks, Yodlee (/yodlee/*), Nordigen (/nordigen/institutions)
  • Misc — /company_users, /company_ledger, /client_statement, /claim_license, /check_license, /check_subdomain, /one_time_token, /last_error, /support/messages/send, /verify/*, /accounts/{id}, /feedback, /filters/{entity}, /scheduler, /mailer/check, /smtp/check, /password_timeout, /refresh_react, /webcron, /token_hash_router, /reactivate_email/{bounce_id}, /protected_download/{hash}, /confirm_purchase, /exports/preview/{hash}, /templates/preview/{hash}

Typed response gaps

statics, search, and health_check return concrete types (Statics, SearchResults, HealthCheck). Each keeps the crate's extra convention, so fields they don't model stay reachable rather than being dropped, and each has a generic counterpart — statics_as, search_as, health_check_as — for pinning a shape they leave untyped.

Two remain generic on purpose:

  • chart — the eleven chart endpoints share no common response shape (totals_v2 returns per-currency maps, cashflow_forecast a date series, calculated_fields scalars), so there is nothing to narrow to.
  • send_email — the endpoint serves invoices, quotes, credits, and purchase orders, and answers with whichever entity was emailed. The data envelope is unwrapped, so T is the entity itself.

Within the typed models, a few fields are deliberately left as serde_json::Value: Statics::gateways, Statics::templates, Statics::bulk_updates, HealthCheck::extensions, and HealthCheck::queue_data. These are nested configuration blobs rather than uniform lookup rows, and the same reasoning applies as for Company::settings — a wrong concrete type is a hard decode error, whereas Value is lossless.

Compared with the official PHP SDK

invoiceninja/sdk-php is the first-party wrapper. It's worth checking against, but it is deliberately thinner than this crate: every one of its endpoint classes is just a URI on top of a shared BaseEntity offering all, get, create, update, bulk, archive, delete, restore, and download. Only Companies and Statics add anything of their own.

It covers nothing we don't. The five resources it used to have on us — users, companies, group_settings, bank_integrations, client_gateway_tokens — are all wrapped now.

We cover a lot it doesn't: payment_terms, task_statuses, recurring_quotes, recurring_expenses, bank_transaction_rules, company_gateways, designs, locations, tags, task_schedulers, tokens, system_logs, documents, per-entity actions (mark_sent, mark_paid, clone_to_*, …), per-entity PDF download, reports, charts, search, send_email, refund_payment, ping, health_check, automatic pagination (list_all_*), and X-API-PASSWORD support for the password-protected routes.

Deliberate differences in behaviour:

PHP SDK This crate
Request bodies form_params (urlencoded) JSON
Base URL host only; appends /api/v1 itself full API root, or hosted()
Single-entity delete none — delete() is bulk delete_*(id) via HTTP DELETE, plus bulk_*
Validation errors surfaces only the first message whole per-field errors map on Error::Api
List filters arbitrary array typed setters plus ListParams::param

The urlencoded-vs-JSON difference is the one that matters: form encoding bracket-encodes nested structures, so a payload like an invoice's line_items array of objects is far cleaner as JSON. Both are accepted by the API.

Two things in the PHP SDK are not worth copying: it sends stream: false in download payloads, but no controller reads a stream input, and its BaseEntity::download is available on every resource even though only PDF-rendering entities support the action.