I view these are different financial instruments altogether spot fx: USD/JPY != USD/GBP Ditto for DA: BTC/USD != BTC/EUR
On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 4:03 PM Patrick Ruckstuhl <patr...@ch.tario.org> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Beancount" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/dd26456f-bc40-356e-ada7-aa4729425355%40ch.tario.org >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhNVU8jBTt0-HuK12jjqhopcbw4f3Fzt%3DOJ6kNkBbHEF%3DA%40mail.gmail.com.
