{{Quickfixn}} invalid type: CHAR

[Grant Birchmeier]

Can I see your dictionary?  You can mail it to me privately if you like.


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Francis Gingras <
francis at tradeintegration.com> wrote:

> Sorry my previous attempt was in HTML only so it didn't go through.
>
> I'm using a custom (broker-supplied) QuickFIX 1.3 dictionary with QF/n 1.5
> and I get this error: "invalid type:  CHAR".
>
> The standard FIX42.xml works fine, so I am assuming there is something
> funky with my custom dictionary, but the error message is not very useful.
> Does anyone know what it means exactly? I searched my xml file and there
> are no instances of the ' character.
>
> Service.CurrentDomain_UnhandledException|invalid type:
>  CHAR|QuickFix.DictionaryParseException: invalid type:  CHAR
>    at QuickFix.DataDictionary.DDField.FieldTypeFromFix(String type,
> Boolean& multipleValueFieldWithEnums)
>    at QuickFix.DataDictionary.DDField..ctor(Int32 tag, String name,
> Dictionary`2 enums, String fixFldType)
>    at QuickFix.DataDictionary.DataDictionary.newField(XmlNode fldEl)
>    at QuickFix.DataDictionary.DataDictionary.parseFields(XmlDocument doc)
>    at QuickFix.DataDictionary.DataDictionary.Load(Stream stream)
>    at QuickFix.DataDictionary.DataDictionary.Load(String path)
>    at QuickFix.DataDictionary.DataDictionary..ctor(String path)
>    at QuickFix.SessionFactory.createDataDictionary(SessionID sessionID,
> Dictionary settings, String settingsKey, String beginString)
>    at QuickFix.SessionFactory.ProcessFixDataDictionary(SessionID
> sessionID, Dictionary settings, DataDictionaryProvider provider)
>    at QuickFix.SessionFactory.Create(SessionID sessionID, Dictionary
> settings)
>    at QuickFix.AbstractInitiator.Start()
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Francis Gingras
>
>
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