/// <summary>
/// Create a transaction with the supplied values from the API
/// </summary>
public Transaction(string amount, string datePosted, string id, string description, string category, string status)
{
// Developer's notes: Hey, normally I would tryparse this stuff since in a production environment we'd rather not grind the user experience to a halt,
//but for the purposes of the demo I'm not accounting for this kind of user experience stuff, and I'm letting the exception bubble up
Amount = ParseHelper.CoerceSignedStringToDecimal(amount);
DatePosted = DateTime.Parse(datePosted);
ID = id;
Description = Description;
Category = category;
Status = TransactionStatus.Unknown; // todo: flesh out a mapper for this later, not really useful for the purposes of the demo
StatusForUI = status;
}
