[GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

David G. Pickett dgpickett at aol.com
Thu Apr 6 13:13:01 EDT 2023


Thanks!

So someone erased a ' = ".*" ' from a char * / std::string variable definition, so sad!  I am sure the bug fix will be out soon if not already.

Does GnuCash have a test suite to verify it still works in prior behaviors?  Do bug repairs update the test suite to detect the bug before they fix it?  There's a term for that, code to test or something such!  Another email chain on grep is full of bugs introduced into various implementations of regex and grep, so they might not have learned/adopted that paradigm.  I supposed it was invented by Hippocrates: "First, do no harm!"?  :D

-----Original Message-----
From: john <jralls at ceridwen.us>
To: David H <hellvee at gmail.com>
Cc: David G. Pickett <dgpickett at aol.com>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Wed, Apr 5, 2023 11:04 pm
Subject: Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed

The namespace parameter is a regular expression, so .* will get the quotes from all of your namespaces.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Apr 5, 2023, at 3:46 PM, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What default namespace, look in YOUR security editor - as far as
> I know it's whatever you set up.  I have a vague recollection that it
> doesn't really care and will be happy with just a single character
> i.e. --namespace=x
> but don't quote me on that.
> 
> By the way your original email could do with some halfway decent formatting
> - see what the mailing list received at
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106230.html you
> might like to tweak that to make it readable in future.
> 
> Cheers David H.
> 
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 07:46, David G. Pickett <dgpickett at aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> I saw that later.  What's the default namespace?
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David H <hellvee at gmail.com>
>> To: David G. Pickett <dgpickett at aol.com>
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Sent: Wed, Apr 5, 2023 3:45 pm
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Command line quotes still not fixed
>> 
>> And you'll see there's a whole other thread on this -
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106181.html.
>> Bug report at https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798815
>> 
>> If you include a namespace parameter for now it will work.
>> 
>> Cheers David H.
>> 
>> On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 at 23:00, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user <
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I can still only update quotes with the interactive button, the flatpak
>> run gnucash command that ran in 4.* is still broken:
>> dgp at dgp-p6803w:~$ flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash
>> --quotes get /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucashMissing data file
>> parameter
>> gnucash-cli [options] [datafile] - GnuCash, accounting for personal and
>> small business finance:
>> Common Options:  -h [ --help ]          Show this help message  -v [
>> --version ]      Show GnuCash version  --debug                Enable
>> debugging mode: provide deep detail in the                          logs.
>>                      This is equivalent to: --log "=info" --log
>> "qof=info"                          --log "gnc=info"  --extra
>>  Enable extra/development/debugging features.  --log arg              Log
>> level overrides, of the form
>> "modulename={debug,info,warn,crit,error}"
>> Examples: "--log qof=debug" or "--log
>> gnc.backend.file.sx=info"                        This can be invoked
>> multiple times.  --paths                Show paths  --logto arg
>> File to log into; defaults to "/tmp/gnucash.trace";
>> can be "stderr" or "stdout".
>> Price Quotes Retrieval Options:  -Q [ --quotes ] arg    Execute price
>> quote related commands. The following                          commands are
>> supported.                                                    info: Show
>> Finance::Quote version and exposed quote
>> sources.                            get: Fetch current quotes for all
>> foreign                                  currencies and stocks in the given
>> GnuCash                                  datafile.
>> dump: Fetch current quotes for specified currencies
>>          or stocks from a specified namespace and print
>>              the results to the console.
>> This must be followed with a source and one or
>>    more symbols, unless the source is "currency"
>>        in which case it must be followed with two or
>>            more symbols, the first of which is the
>>          currency in which exchange rates for the rest
>>              will be quoted.                          --namespace arg
>>    Regular expression determining which namespace
>> commodities will be retrieved for when using the get
>>  command  -V [ --verbose ]      When using the dump command list all of
>> the parameters                        Finance::Quote returns for the
>> symbol instead of the                          ones that Gnucash requires.
>> Report Generation Options:  -R [ --report ] arg    Execute report related
>> commands. The following                          commands are supported.
>>                                                list: Lists available
>> reports.                          show: Describe the options modified in
>> the named                                  report. A datafile may be
>> specified to                                  describe some saved options.
>>                        run: Run the named report in the given GnuCash
>>                            datafile.                          --name arg
>>          Name of the report to run
>> --export-type arg      Specify export type
>> --output-file arg      Output file for report
>> dgp at dgp-p6803w:~$ ls -l
>> /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash-rw-rw-r-- 2 dgp dgp 2899938 Apr
>> 4 17:55 /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucashdgp at dgp-p6803w:~$
>> 
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