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I'm resigning trying to explain my point. It doesn't seem like anyone wants to actually read what I'm saying. I was honestly trying to help the protocol be more efficient so for anyone taking offense to my comments please don't. Oh and for the record I have not a clue what Majkara is talking about. Brandon > > That's why I was suggesting that if there is to be another FAST > > version, it might be a good update to move the template id to the > > beginning of the message and you can even set it to NULL if it is to > > be copied from a previous message. > > That doesn't make sense. A NULL value means the field is not present in > this record. The TID must be present. > > A zero PMAP bit for a field means the field is not present _on the > wire_. To answer your earlier question, "Yes there are FAST data sources > that omit the TID on the wire, relying on the implicit copy operator for > the template ID. For this to work, the PMAP must come first. > > If this is a problem for your implementation, I might respectfully > suggest you change your implementation rather than trying to change > the protocol. > > Dale [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[email protected]] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fix-protocol?hl=en.
