Re: [Quickfixj-users] Quickfix logging

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

OK, altering that file should be no problem but I would advise anyway to implement your own 
quickfix.Log and change the fields on the fly.

Cheers,
Chris.

On 07.06.21 13:00, Ajit Gautam wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
> I was talking about the quickfix log file at FileLogPath. The message log file which logs all the 
> FIX transactions.
>
> FileStorePath will be untouched as it contains session level details.
>
> Regards
> Ajit Gautam
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 4:21 PM Christoph John <chr...@ma... 
> <mailto:chr...@ma...>> wrote:
>
>     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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