I'd like to register *another* set of modules as well, please. These
modules, based on LWP::UserAgent, allow you to fetch historical stock
quotes from the web. I understand that some of the derived module names
end up going into the realm of "three names", but in my estimation this
will be better as more site-specific instances get added. Please let me
know if this is a mondo faux pas or just plain ugly. They all live
beneath the Finance namespace currently:
Name DSLI Description Info
------------- ---- -------------------------------------------- -----
Finance::
HistQuote bdpO Historical stock quotes from multiple sites MSISK
Finance::
HistQuote::
Generic bdpO Historical stock quote base class MSISK
Finance::
HistQuote::
MotleyFool bdpO Historical stock quotes from the Motley Fool MSISK
Finance::
HistQuote::
FinancialWeb bdpO Historical stock quotes from FinancialWeb MSISK
The idea, here, is that site-specific instances all derive from the
Generic base class. One of the properties of these classes is that you
can specify a "lineup" of other site-specific classes to try in the
event the first class fails in its attempt to retrieve quotes.
Finance::HistQuote, the top-level class, is merely an aggregator that
defaults to a particular lineup automatically, but otherwise behaves as
though it were an instance of the first site-specific class in the
lineup.
I really don't know what to do about the long module names in the
site-specific cases, unless it involves moving them out of the Finance
category, which would be a shame since that is where they seem to
belong, along with the Finance::FoolQuote and others of that ilk.
At any rate, if you would like to see more details, then the
documentation and distribution is available here:
http://www.mojotoad.com/sisk/projects/Finance-QuoteHist/
Thanks for your time,
Matt Sisk
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