Re: [Quickfix-developers] Logging messages conditionally

[Staffan U. <sta...@mu...>]

> > I'd like to _not_ log certain messages to the messages_log table.
> > Specifically, market data information is not important enough to
> > warrant the required storage space, and I would like not to store sent
> > messages in the log.
> >
> > Is there an easy way to do this?
> 
> You could derive your own Log class from whichever Log you're
> currently using and have it do nothing when it sees the message types
> you want to ignore in the onIncoming/onOutgoing methods.  For more
> interesting messages, call the base class method.
> 
> You'll need to do a string search (e.g. for "\00135=<X>\001") since
> the Logs are passed strings, not Message objects.

The string search requirement is a bit unfortunate, or at least ugly.
A bigger problem is that the JdbcLog class is not public, but maybe
this is just a bug and not by design?  (I see that FileLog is indeed
public).

Staffan