Problem with home-made Finance::Quote script

Fredrik Persson fredrik.p.persson at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 13:51:13 EST 2008


This is what I get. Anything out of the ordinary?

/Fredrik

$ gnc-fq-dump -v ftest_funds FXIRL00109
I am in my module!
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: FXIRL00109           <=== required
      date: 11/03/2008           <=== required
  currency: USD                  <=== required
      last:                      <=\       
       nav: 498.03               <=== one of these
     price:                      <=/        
  timezone:                      <=== optional

All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock FXIRL00109

stock           field  value
-----           -----  -----
FXIRL00109          a: Defaults: Year 2008, Month 11, Day 3

FXIRL00109   currency: USD
FXIRL00109       date: 11/03/2008
FXIRL00109    isodate: 2008-11-03
FXIRL00109     method: fredrik_funds
FXIRL00109        nav: 498.03
FXIRL00109    success: 1
FXIRL00109     symbol: FXIRL00109



On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 16:35 -0500, David Reiser wrote:
> do
> gnc-fq-dump -v ftest_funds FXIRL00109
> 
> to see if the time field or some other field is screwed up.
> 
> 
> On Nov 2, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Fredrik Persson wrote:
> 
> > I've written (or rather, modified an existing) .pm file for fetching
> > fund quotes from www.morningstar.se. (Attached.)
> >
> > Installing this script works fine with gnc-fq-dump, example:
> >
> > $ gnc-fq-dump ftest_funds FXIRL00109
> > I am in my module!
> > Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
> >    symbol: FXIRL00109           <=== required
> >      date: 10/31/2008           <=== required
> >  currency: USD                  <=== required
> >      last:                      <=\
> >       nav: 488.74               <=== one of these
> >     price:                      <=/
> >  timezone:                      <=== optional
> >
> > As you can see, things look rather well. The NAV value is correct.
> >
> > However, when I try to use this in gnucash, I get a popup saying  
> > "There
> > was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes." No other
> > indication on what's wrong, not in the terminal either.
> >
> > I'm running gnucash 2.2.6 r17427 on Ubuntu 8.10.
> >
> > What could be wrong? Any idea how to fix this?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Fredrik Persson
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> 
> --
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
> 
> 
> 
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