[GNC-dev] Problem retrieving online quotes

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 29, 2023, at 12:56 PM, Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> when I press the "get online quotes" button
> finance-quote-wrapper gets called, but it runs forever (at least
> a few hours, then I killed it).
> 
> I patched libgnucash/app-utils/gnc-quotes.cpp to write the json
> string to a file before it is passed to finance-quote-wrapper.
> This string looks good to me.
> 
> When I pass the string to finance-quote-wrapper on the command line,
> it spawns a few error messages of the form
> "Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1/Finance/Quote/YahooJSON.pm line 168"
> but it produces an output that looks good to me as well.
> 
> There are about 60 different stocks/funds/currencies in the
> request, the return string is about 20 kByte.
> 
> Any idea how I could debug this further?
> 
> Herbert.
> 
> PS: Getting online quotes used to work with GnuCash 4.x for me.

First, if you're not using a current git stable, do. Then attach a debugger to see what it's doing.

Regards,
John Ralls