[Quickfix-developers] Logon question

[Franssen, R. <Ron...@ko...>]

I have a question about adding additional information to the logon
message.  Using an example application as a guide, we are currently
adding the username/password combination to the logon message by the
following means:

In the toAdmin event handler, we are checking for the message type to be
equal to "A" (logon).  If the message type is a logon message, then we
cast it to a logon message type and then proceed to perform:

logonMessage.setField(username)
logonMessage.setField(password)

where username and password are QuickFix type objects.  

This whole process seems to be working, but is feels sloppy to me.  Is
there a better way of hooking the logon event without subjecting every
single message to an interrogation to determine if it is a logon message
type.

Thanks,

Ron Franssen
Koch Supply & Trading