Re: [Quickfixj-users] Session validation settings have no effect for FIXT unless AppDataDictionary is set explicitly

[Christoph J. <chr...@ma...>]

Hi,

I did not check the code but how should QFJ validate if fields are out of order if no application 
data dictionary is specified?
Or did I misunderstand your question?

Cheers,
Chris.

On 21/03/2019 09:50, Ilya Kurnosov wrote:
> QuickFIX/J Documentation: http://www.quickfixj.org/documentation/
> QuickFIX/J Support: http://www.quickfixj.org/support/
>
>
>
> Hello! I ran into some interesting behavior with quickfixj 2 today. My question is if it's 
> intentionally designed this way? And, if yes, if someone could explain the reasoning behind it?
>
> The behavior I see is that all the session validation settings:
>
>   * Session.SETTING_VALIDATE_FIELDS_HAVE_VALUES ("ValidateFieldsHaveValues")
>   * Session.SETTING_VALIDATE_FIELDS_OUT_OF_ORDER ("ValidateFieldsOutOfOrder")
>   * Session.SETTING_VALIDATE_UNORDERED_GROUP_FIELDS ("ValidateUnorderedGroupFields")
>   * Session.SETTING_VALIDATE_USER_DEFINED_FIELDS ("ValidateUserDefinedFields")
>   * Session.SETTING_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_MSG_FIELDS ("AllowUnknownMsgFields")
>
> have exactly no effect on the validation of FIXT application messages unless one also explicitly 
> sets "AppDataDictionary" option (Session.SETTING_APP_DATA_DICTIONARY).
> I observe this behavior in tests, but the code in 
> DefaultSessionFactory#processFixtDataDictionaries looks rather unambiguous too 
> (https://github.com/quickfix-j/quickfixj/blob/QFJ_RELEASE_2_1_1/quickfixj-core/src/main/java/quickfix/DefaultSessionFactory.java#L283). 
> It looks like DefaultSessionFactory#createDataDictionary (the only place using those Validate* and 
> AllowUnknownMsgFields settings) is called to create app dictionary IIF AppDataDictionary is present.
>
> Is this behavior intentional?
>
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