Re: [Quickfix-developers] Issue in parsing FIX44 Message - MsgTyp=n

[Andrei G. <an...@gm...>]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Tan Weng Heng
<wen...@bu...> wrote:
> QuickFIX Documentation: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
>
> Yes. I loaded the FIX44 (Quickfix-1.12.4) dict object & pass it to the
> Message constructor before callilng the Message::setString(...) method
> to perform the parsing.
>
> As I understand it, the QF parser would separate the message fields
> into 3 categories, as specified in the dict:
> 1) HEADER
> 2) BODY/MESSAGE
> 3) TRAILER
>
> My debugging session shows that the Message::extractField(...) only
> looks into the BODY list for the field length, which always fail as tag
> 212 & 213 is catagerized as HEADER as per the FIX spec.
>
> Is this a bug ?

Try Message::getHeader().extractField().