Simple instructions to add my own quote source

[David Reiser]

One more flail from me, and I'm out of ideas. Have you added it to src/engine/gnc-commodity.c ? That, of course, means you get to rebuild gnucash from source, but it's the only other place I see with modules listed.
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Dave Reiser
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On Nov 28, 2013, at 12:58 AM, Ken Farley <farleykj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
> 
> Yeah, I've done that. I agree that it's a bit clunky. My module shows up in a listing of available modules from perl, but Gnucash, for some reason, does not see it.
> On 11/28/13 12:34 AM, David Reiser wrote:
>> I don't know perl, but I have messed around in F::Q a bit. Have you added your module to the @modules list in Quote.pm? There must be a normal way to add a new module without hand editing it into the default list, but putting yours in the default list might help.
>> --
>> Dave Reiser
>> dbreiser at icloud.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Ken Farley <farleykj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> gnc-fq-dump does not list my module, "usbonds". So that would appear to be the immediate problem.
>>> 
>>> I've looked at about a dozen of the different F::Q modules, particularly those that work, like Yahoo, Fidelity, Fool, etc. I truly don't see anything that I am missing.
>>> 
>>> I have a "methods" subroutine, which consists of one statement: "return (usbonds=>\&usbonds) ;"
>>> I have a "labels" subroutine, which returns a list of the labels used in my return hash.
>>> I have the subroutine of interest, "usbonds" which is supposedly what's going to do all my stuff and return either %quotes or \%quotes, depending on how things go.
>>> I have the (presumably?) required documentation stuff at the end, with NAME, SYNOPSIS, etc. sections, same format as all the other modules.
>>> 
>>> I don't see anything else that is common to all the "working" modules that is missing in mine.
>>> Is there anyplace that actually documents what is needed to interface with Gnucash?
>>> 
>>> Ken
>>> 
>>> On 11/27/13 2:30 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>>> farleykj <farleykj at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> Ah, I attempted to obtain a quote for a sample bond with the command
>>>>> 
>>>>> "gnc-fq-dump usbonds \$100-EE-1993-10"
>>>>> 
>>>>> and get the response
>>>>> 
>>>>> "No results found for stock $100-EE-1993-10"
>>>>> 
>>>>> Which would seem to indicate that gnucash is not aware of all the offerings
>>>>> of my particular installation of Finance::Quote. At least that's what I
>>>>> interpret this response to be.
>>>> I would not interpret it that way at all.  I would interpret it as the
>>>> input code '$100-EE-1993-10' isn't found correctly.
>>>> 
>>>> You can verify that GnuCash/F::Q can see your grabber by just running
>>>> "gnc-fq-dump" without any arguments.  Does 'usbonds' show up there?  If
>>>> so, then the bug is in your grabber and/or input values.
>>>> 
>>>>> So, where do I go from here? I thought the difficult part of this would be
>>>>> writing the Perl stuff to do it.
>>>> That is the hard part.
>>>> 
>>>>> Is there anywhere I can look for an example of something that works to do
>>>>> this? I must be missing something crucial.
>>>> Look at any of the other grabbers.
>>>> Run gnc-fq-dump (by itself) to make sure F::Q sees it
>>>> Then get gnc-fq-dump working; figure out what input you need to provide.
>>>> 
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>>>> -derek
>>>> 
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