[Quickfix-developers] exit on message parse failure

[Alasdair R. <ala...@ja...>]

I am new to quickfix (and in fact Fix). I am writing a very simple app
which will connect, and then parse each ExecutionReport message received
and put it in a database. This is working fine, but occasionally I get a
message which fails for some reason. Hopefully byt the time we get
through to production this won't happen, but just in case I would like
to exit the program gracefully .. so I can decide whether to do a quick
fix or continue processing the next message. So 2 questions
 
1. Can I somehow propagate an exception to my app thread (and then exit)
from within the fromApp() method? (dont particularly want to do an
exit(1))
2. If i do that will quickfix rerequest the message when I start up
again (ie at what stage does it record a particular message as
processed)?
 
thanks
Alasdair Richardson