True, looking at it from that point it makes sense to have it part of the ticker. Thanks for the discussion.
On April 11, 2021 11:45:40 PM GMT+02:00, Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> wrote: >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/99378488-EBA6-4C8A-9117-3CD6FBAF2631%40ch.tario.org.
