Unable to add any new bills due to lack of default currency (6.1.0)

[lbeltrame]

As the subject says, it is impossible to add new bills because the form prevents submitting, because the currency field is empty. This doesn't work via API as well because the API returns that currency is a required field.

There was an issue opened a couple of years ago, but it was closed (and it doesn't tell whether the issue was fixed or not).

Setup:

• ihatemoney 6.1.0
• Running via virtualenv (Python 3.11)
• Database backend: Postgres
• Application ran through uwsgi proxied to nginx

Checked database migrations and everything should be fine.

I couldn't extract meaningful information via logs, but I haven't raised the debug level yet.

[lbeltrame]

EDIT: The reason is that originally a currency was set, many years ago. It remained set, but since the service used by this project is no longer available, I guess that broke things.

Setting manually to "No currency" allowed creation of new bills again. However I'm not going to close this, as this is still a bug.

[zorun]

You mean that the project was created with a currency that no longer exists?

Can you look in the database to see what is the exact value of the currency for your project?

[zorun]

That would be: SELECT id, name, default_currency FROM project;

The code around currencies is fragile, I would not be surprised if there are loopholes. Let's figure out the issue and add a testcase.

[almet]

Interesting, thanks.

the service used by this project is no longer available

I was not even aware of this, and it's clearly something we should fix. Relying on external services is indeed a bad idea in the first place. We might want to completely change the way we're dealing with external currencies. I know that for instance in cospend they let you specify the conversion rate.

[UndeRus]

I have same problem, now project is unusable, I can't add any transactions

Now ihatemoney calls this API https://api.exchangerate.host/latest?base=USD which need api key to use, we need to predefine currencies to make it work without external api calls

[Arvil]

I have encountered the same issue on ihatemoney.org, can confirm @lbeltrame's quick fix works there too

[zorun]

As a quick fix, we can probably hard-code the list of currencies. This should allow adding bills in the same currency as the project currency. It seems to be the use-case of @lbeltrame and @Arvil here, since we prevent converting a project to "no currency" as soon as there are bills in different currencies.

The longer-term fate of the currency feature is discussed here: #1232

[shahram7]

I have the same problem. I am not able to post a new note in the money buster app and in the server. I am not able to select a currency in ihatemoney server because there is none available. I am using mariadb and the latest docker image. (I've redeployed)

[zorun]

Workaround added in #1240, and released as 6.1.1