Re: [Quickfix-developers] Dynamically authorizing sessions by SenderCompID

[Kenny S. <ks...@co...>]

QuickFIX cannot do dynamic sessions.

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Kenny Stone
Connamara Systems, LLC


On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:11 PM, J. Scott Miller
<j.s...@gm...>wrote:

> QuickFIX Documentation:
> http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> In my FIX server application (Quickfix + .net bindings), I want to
> restrict access by SenderCompID via a database lookup. Right now, I am
> only able to update the set of valid SenderCompIDs by either
>
> 1) adding each valid SenderCompID to the configuration file parsed by
> the SessionSettings class or
> 2) instantiating a SessionSettings object and setting the set of
> allowed SenderCompIDs via the .set(SessionID, Dictionary) method
> *before* the SocketAcceptor is created.
>
> Both solutions require a the runner server to be restarted before a
> new session ID can be added to the running server. A restart for each
> new session would cause undesirable service interruptions for existing
> session. I might be able to get around this with some load balancing
> tricks, but I'm hopeful there is a simple solution.
>
> QuickfixJ appears to have a hook for custom session providers
> (
> http://www.quickfixj.org/quickfixj/usermanual/1.5.0/usage/acceptor_dynamic.html
> ),
> but I cannot find an equivalent method in Quickfix. Is there anything
> like this?
>
> I have attempted to modify the SessionSettings after the Acceptor is
> created but it doesn't appear that the new settings take. I have yet
> to verify this in the source.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Scott
>
>
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