Re: [Quickfix-developers] [qfj] Queueing messages before Logged on?

[Oren M. <or...@qu...>]

You can send messages at any time.  There is no need to wait for a 
succesful logon.  The messages will be queued sent automatically after 
the next succesfull connection.

--oren

Brad Harvey wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I would like to be able to send messages to quickfixj after a session 
> has been created but while it is not logged on, and then have those 
> messages sent automatically once the session is logged on.  Is this 
> something that is currently possible? 
>
> Some additional background info may be in order.  Our counterparty fix 
> engine is really just a wrapper for another system, and before we 
> start sending orders etc we have to login to the other system with a 
> BE User request.  No, I'm not sure why they didn't just add some 
> custom fields to the normal fix login message. 
>
> We wanted to ensure that no "normal" messages could be sent before the 
> BE User request.  To do this we have modified Session to only consider 
> itself fully logged on after the BE User request, and to automatically 
> send the BE after the normal fix logon.  Before our application sends 
> any messages it waits for session.isLoggedOn() to be true.  I'm not 
> really happy with this - I'd prefer it to be able to just send it and 
> let quickfix take care of sending when it can, hence the original 
> question.
>
> I'm also interested in hearing of better ways to do the BE User 
> request thing - I'd really prefer not to maintain our own changes in 
> Session.  We're quite happy to contribute the changes if they'd be 
> useful to the quickfixj community, but at the moment it isn't optional 
> so would require a little work.
>
> Regards,
> Brad.
>