No ability to request last stock price

[eladkatz]

I've written a very basic method and added it to the AlpacaAPI.java file on my local machine, but I wonder if you can add it to the official api. My code:

/**
 * The Last Quote API provides last quote details for a symbol.
 * @param symbol the symbol for which you'd like to get a quote
 * @return The last stock price in a Json format like:
 * {
 *   "status": "success",
 *   "symbol": "SPY",
 *   "last": {
 *     "askprice": 279.1,
 *     "asksize": 1,
 *     "askexchange": 15,
 *     "bidprice": 287.05,
 *     "bidsize": 10,
 *     "bidexchange": 17,
 *     "timestamp": 1588770424970329400
 *   }
 * }
 */
public JsonElement getLastQuote(String symbol){

    AlpacaRequestBuilder urlBuilder = new AlpacaRequestBuilder(baseDataUrl, AlpacaConstants.VERSION_1_ENDPOINT,
        AlpacaConstants.LASTQUOTE_ENDPOINT+ "/" + AlpacaConstants.STOCKS + "/" + symbol);

    HttpResponse<InputStream> response = alpacaRequest.invokeGet(urlBuilder);

    return alpacaRequest.getResponseJSON(response);
}

it's ugly, I know, but it works - I'd love to change it if it means that it will now be exposed...

Thanks, Elad

[Petersoj]

See my comment about this here. I started working on this PR, but then my summer job started to take priority. Feel free to contribute via the instructions in the aforementioned link. You can also see I added these endpoints on this commit on my fork. The only thing that's left is the streaming of Alpaca websocket data which has been started as seen in the latest commit on my fork.

[Petersoj]

The WIP PR for this is now available here. Should be done soon.

[Petersoj]

71 is now completed and will be integrated sometime this week which adds functionality for the new market data API.