> On Aug 24, 2023, at 05:59, john via gnucash-user gnucash-user@gnucash.org 
> wrote:
> 
> > 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

Thanks for the explanation. The bug is filed: 
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799066.

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