[Quickfix-developers] Data format validation for LOCALMKTDATE type

[Yihu F. <Yih...@re...>]

Hi,

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LOCALMKTDATE data type is defined as YYYYMMDD in FIX version 4.2 up.
However, QuickFIX defines LOCALMKTDATE as string in FieldTypes.h

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typedef std::string LOCALMKTDATE;

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This equivalently turns off data format validation for LOCALMKTDATE as
it is a free format string. This is inconsistent with QuickFIX
validation of other date/time types like UTCDATE, UTCTIMESTAMP. For
example, ExpireDate (Tag 432) should be in YYYYMMDD. QuickFIX allows any
format of string in this tag. Should we have a new type along with its
convertor so that getValue call with do the correct validation of the
field?

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Thanks,

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-Yihu



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