{{Quickfixn}} Help. Error reading a group

[Sahil Neb]

Hi Masthan,

Thanks for your response.
We have already spoken to the sender. They acknowledge this deviation from standard FIX44 protocol, but they cannot change their FIX spec.
Hence we have to address this issue at our end.

Regards,
Sahil Neb

From: Quickfixn [mailto:quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com] On Behalf Of Rao, Masthan
Sent: 23 February 2017 13:21
To: Mailing list for QuickFIX/n
Subject: Re: {{Quickfixn}} Help. Error reading a group

Hi,
FIX44 specification says that the order of the fields in the repeating should be the same and that's the reason why you are receiving this error. FIX50 doesn't have this limitation. Please check with the sender at least if he can send out a blank value for "CLOrdID" as first element when there is nothing to send.
Masthan

From: Quickfixn [mailto:quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com] On Behalf Of Sahil Neb
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 8:11 AM
To: quickfixn at lists.quickfixn.com<mailto:quickfixn at lists.quickfixn.com>
Subject: {{Quickfixn}} Help. Error reading a group

Hi,

We use QuickFIXn with FIX44 and have a problem in reading a group with a non-required field as the first element.

We get the error message:-
Group 897's first entry does not start with delimiter 11

In the data dictionary the group is specified as :-
<group name="NoTrades" required="Y">
        <field name="ClOrdID" required="N" />
        <field name="OrigClOrdID" required="N" />
        <field name="OrderID" required="Y" />


In some messages, we receive "ClOrdID" as the first element of the group which we read without error,
and in other cases we get "OrigClOrdID" as first element which fails.

We have discussed with the sender and they can't change their specifications.

Is there any way we can address this issue?
Perhaps by not relying on the required="N" elements as the delimiter of the group?

Any pointers or suggestions will be very helpful.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Sahil Neb

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