Problem with home-made Finance::Quote script

[Dave Reiser]

I think the problem is you're not having finance-quote ask for a time. 
While gnucash doesn't display it, the program does attempt to construct 
a full valid timestamp. If gnucash can't get it, the quote is rejected.

Dave

Fredrik Persson wrote:
> 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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