[GNC-dev] Problem retrieving online quotes

[Herbert Thoma]

Am 29.04.23 um 22:11 schrieb 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.

I am using current git stable.

> Then attach a debugger to see what it's doing.

It's been a while since I last used gdb ...

OK, will try. What do I need to pass to cmake to get a debug build?

  Herbert.

> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
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