Re: [Quickfix-developers] Validation of required fields in required repeating group

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

Yihu Fang wrote:
> It seems that QuickFIX does not validate any required fields in a 
> repeating group.
> [...] 
> 
> I made the following change in DataDictionary class to allow validation 
> of required repeating group. A boolean argument is passed to addXMLGroup 
> method to notify whether the group is a required group, then the map 
> m_requiredFields is correctly populated by addRequiredField() - similar 
> to components. It also needs to recursively check all fields including 
> those in repeating group in the method checkHasRequired(), instead of 
> using fieldMap.isSetField, a recursive method is called.
> 
> Attached please find the patches for DataDictionary.cpp and 
> DataDictionary.h for QuickFIX release 1.9.4. A file with a few test 
> messages is also included.

Thanks, Yihu. I added this entry to the BugTracker:

http://www.quickfixengine.org/bugtracker/bug.php?op=show&bugid=65

and attached your files to the bug. Please update if neccessary.

Cheers, Jörg

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