Re: [Quickfixj-users] Quickfix logging

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

Hi Ajit,

I thought I gave the answer to this some days ago already. Implement your own quickfix.Log interface 
and replace the fields on the fly as messages come in or go out.

As far as I am aware there is no lock on the log files but I think this is OS-dependent.

When you talk about "logs" you mean the log file, right? So the file where INFO, DEBUG, WARN 
messages etc are printed along with the FIX messages that are sent out.
Why should the content of the FIX messages change because you change a text file?
Or do you mean the real message store? These are files that are stored in the directory that is 
pointed to in the config "FileStorePath". If you change something in there, then this will change 
the FIX messages in case of a resend. I strongly advise to NOT touch these files.

Cheers,
Chris.


On 07.06.21 09:44, Ajit Gautam wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I am logging my own logs as well as quickfix logs which are automatically generated.
> Since quickfix logs are logging passwords as well, I was wondering about an approach at 
> application level to run a cron which can replace the password field with xxxx.
>
> But there were two points which I was not sure whether they would get impacted or not.
> Firstly, is there any locking mechanism on quickfix log or I can change it runtime?
> Secondly, if I change the log, does in the resend request, xxxx will be sent in serving recovery 
> request?
>
>
> Regards
> Ajit Gautam
>
>
> On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 2:53 AM Christoph John <chr...@ma... 
> <mailto:chr...@ma...>> wrote:
>
>     You could implement your own quickfix.Log and obfuscate the unwanted tags in the
>     onIncoming/onOutgoing callbacks.
>
>     Chris.
>
>
>     On 28.05.21 13:38, Ajit Gautam wrote:
>>     QuickFIX/J Documentation:http://www.quickfixj.org/documentation/  <http://www.quickfixj.org/documentation/>
>>     QuickFIX/J Support:http://www.quickfixj.org/support/  <http://www.quickfixj.org/support/>
>>
>>
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I have a Quickfix acceptor and a custom message for user logon and response.
>>     I am using Quickfix libraries and logging the messages. In the quickfix message log, user
>>     name and password are getting logged. But, I don't want to log the password field
>>     Is there a way or work around that avoids logging only the password field on a user logon
>>     request message?
>>
>>
>>
>>     Regards
>>     Ajit Gautam
>>
>>
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