[Quickfix-users] ordermatch example; incorrectly parsed DataDictionary causes crash

[Brendan B. B. <br...@ka...>]

Hello,

From "quickfix-1.5.0\doc\html\examples.html":

"The applications provided are ordermatch which is a c++ server that
will match and execute limit orders."

For some reason I introduced myself to QF using tradeclient running
against ordermatch before trying tradeclient running against executor.

I was quite perplexed as to why orders I was sending to ordermatch
were being rejected until I realized that ordermatch didn't override
FIX::MessageCracker::onMessage( const NewOrderSingle&, const
FIX::SessionID& ) as does executor.

So if Executor simply fills every limit order that it receives, what
is ordermatch intended to do?

Also, is it a known problem that if specifying a DataDictionary which
contains something in the path which the parser considers a delimeter
that there's a crash in DataDictionary::readFromURL()?

Using something like
DataDictionary=c:\Projects\c++\quickfix-1.5.0\spec\FIX41.xml will
result in a path of "c:\Projects\c" which results in a reference to a
NULL pFixNode in readFromURL().

Regards,
Brendan