Simple instructions to add my own quote source

[David Reiser]

I don't know perl, but I have messed around in F::Q a bit. Have you added your module to the @modules list in Quote.pm? There must be a normal way to add a new module without hand editing it into the default list, but putting yours in the default list might help.
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Dave Reiser
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On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Ken Farley <farleykj at gmail.com> wrote:

> gnc-fq-dump does not list my module, "usbonds". So that would appear to be the immediate problem.
> 
> I've looked at about a dozen of the different F::Q modules, particularly those that work, like Yahoo, Fidelity, Fool, etc. I truly don't see anything that I am missing.
> 
> I have a "methods" subroutine, which consists of one statement: "return (usbonds=>\&usbonds) ;"
> I have a "labels" subroutine, which returns a list of the labels used in my return hash.
> I have the subroutine of interest, "usbonds" which is supposedly what's going to do all my stuff and return either %quotes or \%quotes, depending on how things go.
> I have the (presumably?) required documentation stuff at the end, with NAME, SYNOPSIS, etc. sections, same format as all the other modules.
> 
> I don't see anything else that is common to all the "working" modules that is missing in mine.
> Is there anyplace that actually documents what is needed to interface with Gnucash?
> 
> Ken
> 
> On 11/27/13 2:30 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> farleykj <farleykj at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Ah, I attempted to obtain a quote for a sample bond with the command
>>> 
>>> "gnc-fq-dump usbonds \$100-EE-1993-10"
>>> 
>>> and get the response
>>> 
>>> "No results found for stock $100-EE-1993-10"
>>> 
>>> Which would seem to indicate that gnucash is not aware of all the offerings
>>> of my particular installation of Finance::Quote. At least that's what I
>>> interpret this response to be.
>> I would not interpret it that way at all.  I would interpret it as the
>> input code '$100-EE-1993-10' isn't found correctly.
>> 
>> You can verify that GnuCash/F::Q can see your grabber by just running
>> "gnc-fq-dump" without any arguments.  Does 'usbonds' show up there?  If
>> so, then the bug is in your grabber and/or input values.
>> 
>>> So, where do I go from here? I thought the difficult part of this would be
>>> writing the Perl stuff to do it.
>> That is the hard part.
>> 
>>> Is there anywhere I can look for an example of something that works to do
>>> this? I must be missing something crucial.
>> Look at any of the other grabbers.
>> Run gnc-fq-dump (by itself) to make sure F::Q sees it
>> Then get gnc-fq-dump working; figure out what input you need to provide.
>> 
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>> -derek
>> 
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