Simple instructions to add my own quote source

[Ken Farley]

Hi Dave,

Yeah, I've done that. I agree that it's a bit clunky. My module shows up 
in a listing of available modules from perl, but Gnucash, for some 
reason, does not see it.
On 11/28/13 12:34 AM, David Reiser wrote:
> 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.
> --
> Dave Reiser
> dbreiser at icloud.com <mailto:dbreiser at icloud.com>
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> On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Ken Farley <farleykj at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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