Re: [Quickfixj-users] Missing BeginString tag on outbound Execution Reports

[Colin D. <co...@ma...>]

For my part, I wondered about adding headers programatically. Can you elaborate on why you do that?

> On Oct 19, 2023, at 3:14 AM, Christoph John <chr...@ma...> wrote:
> 
> QFJ Documentation: http://www.quickfixj.org/documentation/
> QFJ Support: http://www.quickfixj.org/support/
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> unrelated question: do you happen to use Outlook? If so, please send mails as plain text or HTML (NOT as rich text), otherwise they might get mangled by some servers. I must use Outlook and your mail gets split up in several attachments for some reason. Or maybe this is only a problem for me, and I don't know how to use Outlook right (coming from Thunderbird). 😊
> 
> 
> However, w.r.t. your problem: does this only occur for ExecReports but not for other application messages? Always on the same session?
> Why do you instantiate the message class instead of using a MessageFactory?
> How do you send the messages out? Via Session.sendToTarget()?
> 
> Cheers
> Chris
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vlad Radu <vra...@gm...>
> Sent: 18 October 2023 16:35
> To: qui...@li...
> Subject: [Quickfixj-users] Missing BeginString tag on outbound Execution Reports
> 
> QFJ Documentation: http://www.quickfixj.org/documentation/
> QFJ Support: http://www.quickfixj.org/support/
> 
> In our production environment we've seen this occur sporadically for
> outbound Execution Reports on a particular FIX 4.4 session, using
> QuickFIX/J 2.3.1 .
> 
> As an example:
> 
> Good:
> 8=FIX.4.4|9=532|35=8|34=2766|49=SENDER|52=20231006-20:00:18.322|56=TARGET|116=TRADE|
> .... |10=114|
> 
> Bad:
> 9=558|35=8|34=2767|49=SENDER|52=20231006-20:00:18.329|56=TARGET|116=TRADE|
> .... |10=114|
> 
> I had to remove the body but left the headers. The messages are built using
> quickfix.Message class, adding following headers programmatically:
> MsgType,OnBehalfOfSubID , DeliverToCompID.
> 
> Unlike quickfix.fix44.Message prior class does not update the BeginString
> as normally this is done anyway by the Session before sending a message
> out. As can be seen in the above example all other headers are present
> (besides BeginString) and looking at the code they get initialized in the
> same method.
> 
> I can find no explanation for this occurring and cannot reproduce myself.
> Has anyone seen something like this occur?
> 
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