Re: [Quickfix-developers] tag 11 format restrictions and new clordid in cxl and repl msg

[Joerg T. <Joe...@ma...>]

Narayan, Arvind wrote:
> TransactTime I believe is type UTCTimeStamp, which upon instantiation, populates itself
> with the current time. Ie if an object has field transacttime, that value does not need
> to be set explicitly by the application. It is set when the object is created.

True, it did not check that case.

> I was not clear about the difference between setting fields and setting values to
> fields.

In our system, the TransactTime is pulled out of the propriatary message send by the 
exchange, so just setting the current time would be wrong.

>> Yes, at the moment this is the case. But it could be a good idea to have some more
>> support to ease application level programming.
> 
> What did you have in mind? This would indeed be powerful functionality if done
> correctly.

Nothing too specific yet. But for our own FIX application level interface I found that you 
need a couple of utility functions to ease programming. I wonder whether we could collect 
some application level utilities to provide a library. The additional benefit would be 
that this library could do things in a FIX compliant way (think of ClOrdID / OrigClOrdID 
chaining...) If you did some FIX programming, you probably have some functions in mind.

Cheers, Jörg

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