Re: [Quickfix-developers] Message creation

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>> It would be nice if the Message constructor (taking a String value)
could
>> do this automatically.  In order to this, I needed to make the
>> Message.initFromString(String str) method public instead of protected.

>> Is this a reasonable request?  Or is there an easier way to create a
>> message object?

I'm not sure how the message constructor can do this automatically.  Once
in the constructor you are already creating a message object and not one of
the derived objects you need.  Am I misunderstanding you?  Do you mean
maybe to have a create method on the MessageFactory that takes in a string?
In any case you do not need to make initFromString public as there already
is a public method called fromString.  initFromString is designed to be
called from constructors because it creates an underlying C++ class.

>> Another related question is what happens if you request a message (via
>> sequence number) from the MessageStore but it doesn't exists?  I'm going
to
>> have the client basically ask for all messages since (lastMsgRecvd + 1).

Depends on which method you use.  If you use the signature for requesting
one message, it will return false if not available.  If you use the method
for requesting a range, it will return a collection with whatever is
available.  So if you have 1-50, and ask for 30-60, you will get 30-50.