Finance Quote TIAA/CREF module broken again

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sat Sep 22 13:43:30 EDT 2012


On Sep 22, 2012, at 9:39 AM, davelist at mac.com wrote:

> 
> On Sep 22, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Erik Colson <eco at ecocode.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Sometimes it might help to know what module Perl does actually load.
>> This command will tell you exactly that:
>> 
>> perldoc -lm Finance::Quote::Tiaacref
>> 
>> best
>> --
>> erik
> 
> 
> That does report the correct one. 
> 
> perldoc -lm Finance::Quote::Tiaacref
> /Library/Perl/5.12/Finance/Quote/Tiaacref.pm
> 
> I think the problem is related to the other email I sent with:
> 
> $ /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-dump tiaacref crefBOND
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>   symbol: crefBOND (deduced)   <=== required
>     date: ** missing **        <=== required
> currency: ** missing **        <=== required
>     last:                      <=\       
>      nav:                      <=== one of these
>    price:                      <=/        
> timezone:                      <=== optional
> 
> ** This stock quote cannot be used by gnucash!!

Yup. So the new Tiaacref.pm is defective, at least for Gnucash's needs. That should probably go on the FQ bug report.

Regards,
John Ralls


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