[Quickfix-developers] Copying QuickFix messages

[Sam S. <sa...@if...>]

Hi,

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I need to a deep clone of a QuickFix message, retaining its type. I have
written the following method in C#.

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It seems to work.

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Having examine the C++ code of the fix library and the underlying types
I believe that this should do a by-value copy.

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Please can anyone let me know if there are any problems with this, or
there is a better way to do it?

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            public static QuickFix.Message DeepCopyFixMessage
(QuickFix.Message inputMessage)

            {

                  QuickFix.Message outputMessage;

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                  outputMessage =3D (QuickFix.Message)
System.Activator.CreateInstance (inputMessage.GetType ());

                  unsafe

                  {

                        outputMessage.setUnmanaged
(inputMessage.unmanaged ());

                  }

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                  return outputMessage;

            }

Sam Smith
Intelligent Financial Systems Ltd

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