[Quickfix-developers] Connections during offline period

[Bill R. Hr. <bil...@ra...>]

Hello

during the offline period of a single FIX session (time not between
StartTime and EndTime) I observe that the engine connects to the
counterparty and disconnects the whole time.

I'm using the ThreadedSocketInitiator and found in the function
ThreadedSocketInitator::socketThread that the system will only leave the
while(...) loop if the initiator received a OnStop call. The start- and
endtime is not handled at all. The call to isSessionTime happens only in the
doConnect function.
Today's implementation works only if I would shutdown the whole server once
a day.
Is this assumption right?

In my opinion during the offline-period not connect attempts should be made
at all. Therefore a test in socketThread for isSessionTime is necessary,
isn't it?

Best regards
Robert