Simon added a comment - 27/Sep/18 12:29 - edited Please correct description: -behavong + behaving Thx

Christoph John added a comment - 27/Sep/18 13:20 Thanks for including a quick test! The calculation of length and checksum has been changed to be calculated in a StringBuffer instead of changing the Message instance every time when calling toString(). This works without problems since the result of toString() will be sent on the wire. Also you can retrieve body length and checksum when you receive a message since then the message will be parsed using Message.fromString(). See https://github.com/quickfix-j/quickfixj/pull/39 and https://github.com/quickfix-j/quickfixj/pull/42 Here is how you could retrieve body length and checksum from a message that you created: @Test public void testBodyLengthAndChecksum() throws FieldNotFound, InvalidMessage { TradeCaptureReport tradeCaptureReport = new TradeCaptureReport(); tradeCaptureReport.set( new Instrument( new Symbol( "[N/A]" ))); System .out.println(tradeCaptureReport.toString()); Message newMessage = new Message(); newMessage.fromString(tradeCaptureReport.toString(), null , false ); System .out.println(newMessage.getHeader().getString(9)); System .out.println(newMessage.getTrailer().getString(10)); System .out.println(MessageUtils.checksum(tradeCaptureReport.toString())); } This might look a little cumbersome but actually I wonder what the use case behind this is? Why do you need to know the body lenght and checksum of a message that you just created? Cheers, Chris. P.S.: Please use the mailing list if unsure if it is a bug or not. Thanks

Simon added a comment - 27/Sep/18 15:09 - edited Hi Chris, thanks for that fast reply. The use case is we save a pretty print version of a fix message in the database, therefore we have a "prettyPrinter" utility class that wasn't working correctly after update to 2.1.0. I found it a while ago by googling and adapted it a bit. Attached it to issue, if anyone is interested. (the code is pretty ugly, but does the job) Also attached the new version... Greetings, Simon.

Simon added a comment - 27/Sep/18 15:11 Hi Chris, could you remove the file "FixMessagePrinter.java" ? Thanks

Christoph John added a comment - 28/Sep/18 12:39 Done. Will close this ticket now. For further discussion please use the mailing list (maybe with a link to this issue). Thanks, Chris.

Christoph John added a comment - 28/Sep/18 12:45 P.S.: I found a slightly nicer alternative... System .out.println(MessageUtils.getStringField( tradeCaptureReport.toString(), 9 )); System .out.println(MessageUtils.getStringField( tradeCaptureReport.toString(), 10 ));