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Why doesn QuickFAST support dynamic templates?

April 26, 2017Dynamic quickfast support Templates

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Why doesn QuickFAST support dynamic templates?

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Dynamic templates (not the same as dynamic template exchange!) are “included” templates selected by sending a template ID down the wire. That is, in the middle of decoding a message, a tag says: “Use the next thing on the wire as a persistence map and template ID of another template. Switch to decoding using that template. When you reach the end of that template, return to this point in the original template.” When QuickFAST was first developed I could not find any exchanges that were sending out dynamic templates. This is a relatively expensive feature to support, so the first version of QuickFAST omitted it. I have a completed design to add support for dynamic templates, but unless someone needs it and is willing to fund the effort, it will be on hold for a while. Please note that QuickFAST does support static template references. If the tag includes a name=”templatename” attribute then the named template will be used by the decoder at this point in the st