<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You mean replay in a test-environment context, i.e. to confirm that you've fixed a parsing bug? Then that makes a certain amount of sense.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We actually made a different tool, not in QF, that just sends and receives raw FIX messages. (You can't really make QF send incorrect messages, by design, so we needed a tool like this to test abnormal situations.) I guess when we encounter message errors like that, we test it at the acceptance-test level rather than unit test.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Pete Riehl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:priehl@saierscapital.com" target="_blank">priehl@saierscapital.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I am getting the messages from a live connection. In the event that I reject the message due to a poorly formed dd or poor parsing logic, I’d like to replay
the message rather than try to re generate the same one in the vendor’s test environment. Is there a better way to do this? Your surprise seems to imply that there is. If you achieve this in a better way, I’d love to try it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks for your help,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Now I’ll answer this
question next time it comes up
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:quickfixn-bounces@lists.quickfixn.com" target="_blank">quickfixn-bounces@lists.quickfixn.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:quickfixn-bounces@lists.quickfixn.com" target="_blank">quickfixn-bounces@lists.quickfixn.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Grant Birchmeier<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 05, 2013 1:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mailing list for QuickFIX/n<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: {{Quickfixn}} Generating messages from fix message string.<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I am continually surprised by how many people want to do this. Where are you guys getting your
FIX strings from if not from a live FIX connection?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Anyway, you want Message.FromString(). Use it like follows:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">string msgStr = <your message></span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">var dd = new QuickFix.DataDictionary.DataDictionary();</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">dd.Load("../../../spec/fix/FIX44.xml"); // or whatever
file</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">IMessageFactory defaultMsgFactory = new DefaultMessageFactory();</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I stole all that straight from the unit tests.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I'm gonna put this is the FAQ right now. I answer this question way too often.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-Grant</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Pete Riehl <<a href="mailto:priehl@saierscapital.com" target="_blank">priehl@saierscapital.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I believe this may have been mentioned in a previous chain, but cannot find any documentation on it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"> I would like to take the text of a fix message and pass it through my parser. In the original Quickfix library, you could use the set string method on any message type.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#2b91af;background:yellow">ExecutionReport</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Consolas;background:yellow"> exec =
<span style="color:blue">new</span> <span style="color:#2b91af">ExecutionReport</span>();</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Consolas;background:yellow">exec.setString(text);</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There doesn’t seem to be any equivalent way to create the message in quickfix/n save for parsing your string and calling setfield.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any help would be appreciated.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pete<u></u><u></u></p>
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