> On Aug 23, 2023, at 02:26, Jascha K via gnucash-user
> <gnucash-user@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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