interesting issue with online stock price update

[Jack]

On 2025.02.17 10:26, Thomas Baumgart via KMyMoney-devel wrote:
> On Sonntag, 16. Februar 2025 00:05:22 CET Jack Ostroff via  
> KMyMoney-devel wrote:
> 
> > For the past few weeks/months I've pretty much given up on trying to
> > retrieve online stock prices.  This week, I finally updated my  
> sources,
> > and most of my stocks retrieved the latest price just fine.   
> However,
> > many mutual funds did not, failing with "Unable to find 'timestamp'
> > from date pattern 'chart:result:timestamp' in quote data."  In  
> trying
> > to trace down the actual problem, I saw there were two timestamps in
> > the created URL, and they decoded to the start of today, and the
> > current time.  If there is no price for that fund for today, I can  
> see
> > this failure.  I did finally manage to try to retrieve prices for
> > yesterday through today, and it worked, but only getting a price for
> > yesterday.
> >
> > So - I wonder if the first retrieval fails, and today is on a  
> weekend
> > or holiday, would it be reasonable to try to retrieve the price for
> > yesterday or the previous day?  Is there any other way to address  
> this?
> >
> > Separately, it seems there are lots of different places to get a
> > listing of securities, but not all are sortable, and only from some  
> can
> > you request an online price update, and from only one of those can  
> you
> > actually specify a range of dates.  Am I best off just filing a wish
> > list for addressing some of these issues?
> 
> I think that I covered most of that during the last couple of days.
> 
> > For one example, in the Tools/Prices dialog, you can click on either
> > the Commodity or Stock Name column head to sort on that column, and
> > click again to sort decreasing.  However, from the Equities Tab of  
> the
> > Investments View, if you right click and select "Update Stock and
> > CUrrency Prices..." clicking on the header has no effect at all,  
> and in
> > the Securities Tab, that option is not available.
> >
> > Also, on the price update dialog, there is no search function, so
> > finding a single stock is mildly annoying if you CAN sort the  
> columns,
> > but extremely annoying if you can nether sort nor filter.
> >
> > Thanks for suggestions on where to best address this.
> 
> As mentioned: this should now be available. The filter opens with the
> usual Ctrl+F sequence when in the dialog.

Thanks.  That is much better.  However, today it still failed to get  
prices for almost a dozen of my mutual funds.  It appears to me like a  
price is only set for these funds a day late.  That is if I tell it to  
fetch prices for yesterday to today, it fetches a price for yesterday.   
I know that's not a problem with the code, but I do wonder if anyone  
else has noticed this.  What I'll probably do is always set a two day  
range to fetch prices, and never try it on or right after a weekend.

Jack