{{Quickfixn}} creating a message from a string

[Grant Birchmeier]

This gets asked so often that I added it to our nacent FAQ.
https://github.com/connamara/quickfixn/wiki/User-FAQ

Mike is correct, though -- those pipe characters are not FIX.


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Mike Gatny <mgatny at connamara.com> wrote:

> Are you actually passing in a FIX string that is separated by pipe
> characters?  Or did you just show it that way to make your email more
> readable? The separator has to be an SOH character ("\x01"), not a pipe.
>
> --
> Mike Gatny
> Connamara Systems, LLC
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Fredrik S Loekke <fsl at lindcapital.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hi
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m trying to create QuickFix Messages like this:
>>
>>
>>
>> new
>> QuickFix.Message(@"8=FIX.4.2|35=B|49=TR_Initiator|52=20090101-17:13:06.684|56=TR_Acceptor|148=mounds|33=0",
>> true);
>>
>>
>>
>> But I’m always getting the following error: (with the error happening at
>> various positions)
>>
>>
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>>
>>
>> QuickFix.MessageParseError was unhandled by user code
>>
>>   HResult=-2146233088
>>
>>   Message=Could not parse message: Error at position (2) while parsing
>> msg
>> (8=FIX.4.2|35=B|49=TR_Initiator|52=20090101-17:13:06.684|56=TR_Acceptor|148=mounds|33=0)
>>
>>   Source=QuickFix
>>
>>   StackTrace:
>>
>>        at QuickFix.Message.ExtractField(String msgstr, Int32& pos,
>> DataDictionary sessionDD, DataDictionary appDD)
>>
>>        at QuickFix.Message.ExtractField(String msgstr, Int32& pos)
>>
>>        at QuickFix.Message.FromStringHeader(String msgstr)
>>
>>        at QuickFix.Message..ctor(String msgstr, DataDictionary
>> sessionDataDictionary, DataDictionary appDD, Boolean validate)
>>
>>        at QuickFix.Message..ctor(String msgstr, Boolean validate)
>>
>>        at
>> BondsTrading.Tests.FixProcessor.Messages.MessageConverterTest.SellSideTcrOnSubmissionMessage()
>> in
>> c:\Users\fsl\source\BondsTrading\trunk\Implementation\BondsTrading\BondsTrading.Tests\FixProcessor\Messages\MessageConverterTest.cs:line
>> 37
>>
>>        at
>> BondsTrading.Tests.FixProcessor.Messages.MessageConverterTest.ShouldNeverReturnNull()
>> in
>> c:\Users\fsl\source\BondsTrading\trunk\Implementation\BondsTrading\BondsTrading.Tests\FixProcessor\Messages\MessageConverterTest.cs:line
>> 16
>>
>>   InnerException: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException
>>
>>        HResult=-2146233086
>>
>>        Message=Length cannot be less than zero.
>>
>> Parameter name: length
>>
>>        Source=mscorlib
>>
>>        ParamName=length
>>
>>        StackTrace:
>>
>>             at System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length)
>>
>>             at QuickFix.Message.ExtractField(String msgstr, Int32& pos,
>> DataDictionary sessionDD, DataDictionary appDD)
>>
>>        InnerException:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards / Med venlig hilsen
>>
>>
>>
>> *Fredrik Skeel Løkke*
>>
>> Software Developer ǀ IT & Analysis
>>
>>
>>
>> Mob.: +45 3176 8438
>>
>> fsl at lindcapital.com
>>
>>
>>
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