[Quickfix-developers] constructing generic repeating groups

[Rick L. <ric...@gm...>]

Greetings,

I believe I've made some headway with constructing repeating groups, 
however I feel like this method is a "hack" and, more importantly, 
QuickFix isn't recognizing the repeating groups (even though the 
message, when printed, /seems /complete).  Here is the method I'm using:

QuickFix42.Message message = new QuickFix42.Message();

int numEntriesInGroup = 3;
for (int i = 0; i < numEntriesInGroup; i++) {
    QuickFix.Group sequenceGroup = new QuickFix.Group(1, 50); //<- not 
entirely sure what these params do
    if (i == 0) {
        sequenceGroup.setField(new QuickFix.IntField(864, 
numEntriesInGroup));
    }
    // add elements to the sequenceGroup Group
    message.addGroup(sequenceGroup);
}

I'm adding the length field to the FIRST member of the group, so this 
way it only appears at the start of the sequence.  For instance:

[1128]="8" [35]="d" [49]="CME" [34]="723" [52]="20071204220936787" 
[911]="2140" *[864]="2"* *[865]="5" [866]="20050916" [1145]="213000000" 
[865]="7" [866]="20101213" [1145]="110000000" *[1150]="0.00" 
[1149]="2000.00"

This, I believe, is proper form for a repeating group, however QuickFix 
doesn't like it.  Not only that, but now when I try to grab field 864 
from the message, it says it does not exist (I'm guessing because in 
actuality, message 864 exists in a /group within /the message)?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Rick