Re: [Quickfix-users] Post-processing

[Martin D. <ma...@ma...>]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 06:36:08PM +0000, Richard Hedin wrote:
> I have an application that sends information to a variety of
> destinations [and] it is emerging that some of those destinations
> want special treatment. [...] It would be nice to do some
> [in-process] post-processing [perhaps with] awk, or the perl regular
> expression processor.
> 
> Will I break anything if I pull the string representing the fix
> message back from the QuickFix engine right before I call
> Session.sendToTarget, possibly change the string, give it back to
> the engine, and call sendToTarget?

Won't you risk invalidating BodyLength?

Usually it's best to leave the destination-specific processing as late
as reasonable.  For some volume/fault-tolarance goals, separate
forwading "destination" processes that do per-destination
post-processing might make the most sense.

>                 Regards,
> 
>                 Rick

Martin