On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 at 06:24, David H <hell...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mike/Edward, I'm not sure if either of you have seen Vince's posting in > Finance-quote-devel <finance-quote-de...@lists.sourceforge.net> which seems > like he's working on a similar thing? > > Copy below.... > > Cheers Dave H > > > Hi, > > In June, Erik sent a message about his idea for cleaning up the FQ API to > have consistent ways to set/get instance variables and expand new to allow > for named parameters and module specific data. > > One benefit is a sustainable way to enable users to register API keys for > specific modules. > > I just pushed the branch "new-new" to explore these ideas. > > See the file > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/new-new/new-API-notes.txt > for details about the set/get methods. > > > I used the new API to thread an API key to the IEXCloud module from the test > suite as an example: > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/new-new/t/iexcloud.t > > > If there is agreement to proceed with the API update there are a few things > to do and I can help: > > - updating the POD documentation for Quote.pm > - enabling AlphaVantage to use the module specific data as another source for > its API key > - renew discussion with gnucash developers on enabling users to specify API > keys for more modules
I could be wrong, but looking at the 'new-API-notes.txt' file (link above) I have the impression that these changes do not fix the issue of multiple sequential calls to F::Q respecting the API request limits. As far as I can tell, it would allow the GnuCash perl script to be rewritten to eliminate the while loop and instead call F::Q with a long list of all symbols. But the GnuCash side will need to know the exact API request limit that the user has access to, and then pass that into F::Q. If this is the case, it would nevertheless require some UI feedback/warning on the GnuCash side as fetching many quotes via the GUI is going to be very, very slow. Regards, Edward _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
