[GNC] [GNC-dev] Finance Quote 1.50 release candidate 1 is available

[Rainer Dorsch]

Am Sonntag, 7. März 2021, 19:12:35 CET schrieb John Ralls:
> > On Mar 7, 2021, at 9:15 AM, Rainer Dorsch <ml at bokomoko.de> wrote:
> > 
> > [ move this thread from gnucash-devel to gnucash-user, the original
> > gnucash- devel thread is here
> > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2021-March/045777.html
> > ]> 
> > Am Sonntag, 7. März 2021, 17:51:19 CET schrieb John Ralls:
> >> You're on the wrong list, please use gnucash-user for this sort of
> >> question.
> >> 
> >> GnuCash can't use the quotes because Fondsweb.pm doesn't make a field
> >> "symbol" in its return array. You should raise an issue at
> >> https://github.com/financequote/financequote.
> > 
> > If I understand you right, the field "symbol" is that same symbol which
> > gnucash supplied. I added this locally here.
> > 
> > rd at h370:/usr/share/doc/libfinance-quote-perl/examples$ gnc-fq-dump
> > fondsweb
> > LU0119891520 LU2027374805
> > 
> > Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
> >    symbol: LU0119891520         <=== required
> >    
> >      date: 03/05/2021           <=== recommended
> >  
> >  currency: EUR                  <=== required
> >  
> >      last: 708.99               <=\
> >      
> >       nav: 708.99               <=== one of these
> >     
> >     price:                      <=/
> >  
> >  timezone:                      <=== optional
> > 
> > =====
> > 
> > Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
> >    symbol: LU2027374805         <=== required
> >    
> >      date: 03/05/2021           <=== recommended
> >  
> >  currency: USD                  <=== required
> >  
> >      last: 68.39                <=\
> >      
> >       nav: 68.39                <=== one of these
> >     
> >     price:                      <=/
> >  
> >  timezone:                      <=== optional
> > 
> > rd at h370:/usr/share/doc/libfinance-quote-perl/examples$
> > 
> > I also opened a bug report and cross-referenced it:
> > 
> > https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/issues/179
> > 
> >> As for your complaint about duplicate prices, your pasted-in results
> >> don't
> >> show that.
> > 
> > Many thanks for your quick reply, John. I move the discusion to
> > gnucash-user.
> > 
> > There are two things which I think are strange from the gnucash side:
> > 
> > 1. gnc-fq-dump reports that stock quote cannot be used, but gnucash uses
> > it
> > 2. duplicate prices: I do not see them with gnc-fq-dump but gnucash shows
> > them
> > 
> > Ist gnucash using gnc-fq-dump in the same way I did?
> 
> No. gnc-fq-dump is a user-convenience tool. GnuCash uses gnc-fq-helper,
> which formats its results so that they can be fed directly to Scheme.
> Instructions for using it by hand are in its POD.
> 
> apparently there are others that don't pass a "symbol" element so if it
> doesn't find the "symbol" entry in the F::Q results hash it uses the
> user-supplied symbol instead. There's probably something about the
> Fondweb.pm results hash that messes up retrieving the right entry.
> 
> You can use .cpan/build/Finance-Quote-1.49-0/Examples/stockdump.pl (.cpan is
> probably in your $HOME) to see exactly what F::Q is sending.

I run stockdump.pl, but did not see anything wrong or unexpected in there:

rd at h370:/usr/share/doc/libfinance-quote-perl/examples$ ./stockdump.pl Fondsweb 
LU2027374805
$VAR1 = {
          'LU2027374805success' => 1,
          'LU2027374805name' => 'Morgan Stanley INVF Global Endurance Fund 
(USD) Z',
          'LU2027374805isin' => 'LU2027374805',
          'LU2027374805isodate' => '2021-03-05',
          'LU2027374805method' => 'fondsweb',
          'LU2027374805nav' => '68.39',
          'LU2027374805date' => '03/05/2021',
          'LU2027374805type' => 'fund',
          'LU2027374805currency' => 'USD',
          'LU2027374805last' => '68.39',
          'LU2027374805year_range' => '81.19 - 16.47',
          'LU2027374805symbol' => 'LU2027374805'
        };
rd at h370:/usr/share/doc/libfinance-quote-perl/examples$ ./stockdump.pl Fondsweb 
LU0119891520
$VAR1 = {
          'LU0119891520name' => 'MEDICAL BioHealth EUR',
          'LU0119891520method' => 'fondsweb',
          'LU0119891520isodate' => '2021-03-05',
          'LU0119891520isin' => 'LU0119891520941135',
          'LU0119891520success' => 1,
          'LU0119891520year_range' => '807.77 - 414.77',
          'LU0119891520currency' => 'EUR',
          'LU0119891520last' => '708.99',
          'LU0119891520type' => 'fund',
          'LU0119891520nav' => '708.99',
          'LU0119891520date' => '03/05/2021',
          'LU0119891520symbol' => 'LU0119891520'
        };
rd at h370:/usr/share/doc/libfinance-quote-perl/examples$

The symbol part I added in Fondsweb.pm (see also

https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/issues/179

)

Do you see something unexpected or suspicious in there which can cause the 
mess up?

Thanks
Rainer

-- 
Rainer Dorsch
http://bokomoko.de/