(Important) ib-tws: out of date

[coretemp]

Issue description

@garbas (original author of package)

 LogonDispatcher received reject(probably running an old ccp version), reason [The version of the application you are running, 952.1e, is no longer supported.
Please download the current version from our web site.]

I am using the version in master when I tried this.

Technical details

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 4.15.18, NixOS, 18.03.git.ee80654 (Impala)
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: no
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.0.1
• channels(root): "nixos-17.09.2182.7f6f0c49f0"
• channels(coretemp): "nixos-18.03.132192.ce0d9d638de"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs

[Rizvanov-Rinat]

Having similar problems. Found any solution?

[stefaj]

I am also looking for a solution. Currently I see the downloaded jar file for mac is out of date. We need a later version of this and then the nix package can be updated.

[Rizvanov-Rinat]

I solved the problem after installing new versions ib-controller and tws. I installed on a linux and used this guide.

[coretemp]

@Rizvanov-Rinat What does "I installed on a linux" mean?

[Rizvanov-Rinat]

@coretemp It’s my bad English. Stefan wrote about jar file for mac. I mean that used sh file for Linux.

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[reardencode]

still important -- the existing package can no longer connect to Interactive Brokers. Looks like we need to update the package to extract the jar from a .sh install script instead of expecting it to be directly downloaded.

[stale[bot]]

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

[CMCDragonkai]

I wonder if anybody will package up the client portal API and the IB-Gateway? It provides a RESTful API.

[mahe-ymc]

Looks like we need to update the package to extract the jar from a .sh install script instead of expecting it to be directly downloaded.

That's true, at the end of the .sh file is a .tar.gz postfixed. Can be extracted by

tail -3014990c tws-latest-linux-x64.sh > sfx_archive.tar.gz

Exact byte number can be read from .sh in the first place.

[johnjameswhitman]

Should we mark the current package as broken until there's a fix in place? I spent a little while trying to get this to work before realizing the build was from 2016 and is no longer supported.

[johnjameswhitman]

I opened a PR to mark ib-tws and ib-controller as broken until we update the package: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/324591

[Mic92]

Will be removed in: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/327306

[Mic92]

I think we can close this than.