[GNC] get quotes via gnucash-cli for unknown quote source

[jackielou wong]

Hello there

Can i ask for importing 100 transactions using csv.

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 12:00 PM john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > On Aug 23, 2023, at 02:26, Jascha K via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been trying to get quotes via gnucash-cli with the following
> command:
> >
> > gnucash-cli --quotes get mysql://<connection-details>
> >
> > However, I get the following message when executing the command and no
> quotes are fetched: 'Price retrieval failed: GncQuotes::Fetch called with
> no commodities.'
> >
> > All of my quote sources are of type 'Unknown' (tradegate, fondsweb).
> >
> > When I get the quotes via 'Get Quotes' in the Price Database, the quotes
> are fetched normally, so it seems to be a problem with the CLI.
> >
> > After some investigation, I found out 2 things:
> >
> > 1. When switching the quote source for a security to a source that is
> not Unknown, the CLI is able to fetch that security's quote.
> >
> > 2. When I edit the file libgnucash/engine/gnc-commodity.c and add the
> tradegate and fondsweb sources to the 'single_quote_sources' variable (thus
> making them known sources), the CLI is able to fetch all quotes, no more
> errors.
> >
> > This leads me to believe that the CLI fetching ignores securities where
> the quote source is Unknown, whereas the GUI fetches the quotes regardless
> of the quote source. I was not able to pin down this behavior in the
> source, but maybe somebody can clarify whether this is the desired behavior
> for the CLI.
> >
> > Tested with most recent stable branch and Flatpak version 5.3, F::Q
> versions 1.54, 1.56 and 1.58, on Ubuntu 22.04.
>
> Not desired behavior but not surprising either: In order to know about the
> unknown quote source gnucash-cli -Q get needs to retrieve them from F::Q
> and it doesn't do that. Shouldn't be too hard to fix, but please file a bug
> so that the problem doesn't get lost in mailing list entropy.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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