Add support for parsing with alternative field separators

[da4089]

FIX uses the ASCII SOH character to separate (well, maybe terminate) fields. But for human consumption, these are often replaced with, eg. | when logging messages.

Add optional support for parsing messages using non-standard separators.

[zoakes]

The FIX client I'm trying to connect to will not allow the |||'s, is there any way to remove the pipes?, replace them with spaces -- I tried using str(msg).replace('|', ' ') with no luck...

[da4089]

Sorry, I don't understand what you're trying to do here. Normally, pipes are used only for logging (so that humans can read the messages), but proper FIX protocol uses ASCII SOH characters.

Can you explain in a little more detail? Or maybe a snippet of the code?

[zoakes]

Yeah I realized after sending this that it only uses the pipes in parse, not the actual encoded message. Testing again today, I’ll delete this if it runs as I expect it to — sorry about that!

-- Yep, it's only in the parsed messages (not in the actual sent encoding).

I did come upon another question, is it possible to manually change the order ? I've been adding items as needed (for IB) to the header, but I guess they want a specific order that this isn't producing -- I was thinking of just encoding that portion as a string, appending, and trying that. IB is driving me insane, but once I have a working FIX engine (w/ simplefix) for logOn, HB, and logOff I was going to post it for public use, or push it as a feature if desired.

Zach

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From: David Arnold [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2019 5:53:43 AM To: da4089/simplefix [email protected] Cc: Zach Mazz [email protected]; Comment [email protected] Subject: Re: [da4089/simplefix] Add support for parsing with alternative field separators (#15)

Sorry, I don't understand what you're trying to do here. Normally, pipes are used only for logging (so that humans can read the messages), but proper FIX protocol uses ASCII SOH characters.

Can you explain in a little more detail? Or maybe a snippet of the code?

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