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[Quickfix-developers] FileLog not getting created

[lukas41 <mar...@gm...>]

Hi guys,

I'm new to quickfix. This forum had been very useful, and I would like to
thank everyone in advance.

I was able to run quickfix's example applications, such as ordermatch and
tradeclient. However, it doesn't seem like they are logging any outgoing
messages. I understand that I should be using FileLog for this purpose. I
see in the config file that I can specify a location for the log to go
to...as in
FileLogPath=store

However, nothing is getting logged there. The directory exists but it's
empty after I run these apps.

I looked around the source code, and I see that the FileLog gets generated
from a FileLogFactory. I put in some printout statements, and it seems like
FileLogFactory.create never gets called. Instead, screenlogfactory gets
created. What is the difference between screenlogfactory and filelogfactory?
Will I be able to log messages to a file using screenlog?

thanks

lukas
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Re: [Quickfix-developers] FileLog not getting created

[Dale W. <wil...@oc...>]

Hi Lu;kas,

lukas41 wrote:
> I was able to run quickfix's example applications, such as ordermatch and
> tradeclient. However, it doesn't seem like they are logging any outgoing
> messages. I
These applications "log" the messages to the screen.  For example in 
.../examples/ordermatch/ordermatch.cpp you'll see code that looks like:

    FIX::FileStoreFactory storeFactory( settings );
    FIX::ScreenLogFactory logFactory( true, true, true );
    FIX::SocketAcceptor acceptor( application, storeFactory, settings, 
logFactory );


If you replace ScreenLogFactory(...) with FileLogFactory (settings) the 
logs will be written to a file rather than to the screen.


Dale