Fwd: Troubles with price retrieval

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Doug Brown <toquehead at gmail.com> writes:

> gnc-fq-dump appears to work fine to me:
>
> C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin>perl gnc-fq-dump stockhousecanada_fund cho304
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>    symbol: cho304               <=== required
>      date: 12/11/2009           <=== required
>  currency: CAD                  <=== required
>      last: 14.9602              <=\
>       nav: 14.9602              <=== one of these
>     price: 14.9602              <=/
>  timezone:                      <=== optional

I'll note that this doesn't work for me.  I get:

gnc-fq-dump stockhousecanada_fund cho304
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: cho304 (deduced)     <=== required
      date: ** missing **        <=== required
  currency: ** missing **        <=== required
      last:                      <=\       
       nav:                      <=== one of these
     price:                      <=/        
  timezone:                      <=== optional

** This stock quote cannot be used by gnucash!!

[snip]
> C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin>perl gnc-fq-helper
> (canadastockhouse_fund "CHO304")
> Undefined fetch-method canadastockhouse_fund passed to
> Finance::Quote::fetch at gnc-fq-helper line 368
> #f

Two things:

1) you're using a different quote source here.  "canadastockhouse_fund"
doesn't exist.  You should be using "stockhousecanada_fund", the same as
in gnc-fq-dump.

2) the symbol/mnemonic is case-sensitive.  You are passing 'cho304' to
dump but "CHO304" to helper.  These are effectively DIFFERENT symbols.

When I pass the correct data to gnc-fq-helper I get:

gnc-fq-helper
(stockhousecanada_fund "cho304")
Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will give garbage when decoding entities at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Finance/Quote/StockHouseCanada.pm line 79, <> line 1.
(#f)

...which isn't all too surprising considering gnc-fq-dump fails for me.

So, make sure you're using the correct quote source name and the correct
symbol case.

-derek

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