RE: [Quickfix-users] Some questions about restarting a quickfix server

[Steve B. <sb...@sm...>]

> Staffan Ulfberg wrote:
> Is there any other source for documentation except the main=20
> web site and the souce code?  I find that many minor points=20
> (for example, is an outgoing FIX message guaranteed to be=20
> written to the message store before it is sent to the client?=20
>  When are incoming messages written to the message store?)=20
> are hard to find answers to...

Those are the primary sources for information about QuickFIX.
The questions above makes me wonder if you are confusing the
message store with the session log. The message store is used
to support the protocol-level error recovery. The
protocol only requires sent messages to be potentially resent=20
so no incoming messages are placed in the message store.=20
However, the session log can be used to store incoming and=20
outgoing messages and session-related event descriptions. I'm=20
assuming that's what you want to use for the purposes you=20
describe.
=20
> ...=20
> Anyway, then I have to parse the FIX message log...  Not very=20
> hard to do by hand since there are only a couple of messages=20
> of interest, but it would of course be nice to be able to use=20
> all of the type safe functions in the QuickFIX api...

Are you just asking if there is an QuickFIX API method for
parsing FIX messages? If so, yes there is. Depending on what
language you are using it will be called something like=20
"fromString" on the Message class.

Steve