I think my cases are often cases where there is no "original" quote currency. 
E.g. fx rates or crypto rates. At least for me it's very useful to specify in 
which currency I want to get my rates.

As an alternative I can create a custom ticker format.

One related thing I'm not getting is, that both the source can specify in which 
base it returns the quote but there is also the first part of the base 
specified on the source string.

On April 11, 2021 9:23:43 PM GMT+02:00, Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> wrote:
>I don't think so.
>Conversions is something you should be doing from the caller side.
>Price sources should always return numbers in original quote currencies
>
>
>On Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 14:52 'Patrick Ruckstuhl' via Beancount <
>beancount@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I started looking into moving my price fetchers into beanprice and
>> noticed something.
>>
>> Most of my price sources actually allow you to specify in which base ccy
>> to return the result.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, at the moment the Source interface
>>
>> https://github.com/beancount/beanprice/blob/master/beanprice/source.py
>>
>> doesn't have a way where you can request prices in a certain base ccy,
>> the only thing the source can do is specify in which base ccy it did
>> return them.
>>
>> Should the source contract be extended to (optionally) allow to specify
>> the desired base ccy?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Patrick
>>
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