[QFJ-401] Badly behaved counterparty sending FIX.5.0 as begin string causes exceptions Created: 03/Feb/09  Updated: 29/Apr/11  Resolved: 29/Apr/11

Status: Closed
Project: QuickFIX/J
Component/s: Engine
Affects Version/s: 1.3.3
Fix Version/s: 1.5.1

Type: Bug Priority: Default
Reporter: Jay Walters Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
Labels: None


 Description   

The following context diff shows a patch which cleans up the issue by reducing the possibility of a null pointer.

      • quickfixj/core/src/main/java/quickfix/MessageUtils.java Thu Jan 15 11:47:03 2009
      • quickfixj-svn/core/src/main/java/quickfix/MessageUtils.java Tue Jan 20 15:49:54 2009
        ***************
      • 104,107 ****
      • 104,116 ----
        String customApplVerID = null;

+ MessageFactory messageFactory = session.getMessageFactory();
+ DataDictionaryProvider ddProvider = session.getDataDictionaryProvider();
+ DataDictionary sessionDataDictionary = ddProvider.getSessionDataDictionary(beginString);
+ DataDictionary payloadDataDictionary = null;
+
+ // We check and if it's a Admin message we don't need anything more
+ if (MessageUtils.isAdminMessage(msgType))

{ + payloadDataDictionary = sessionDataDictionary; + }

else {
if (FixVersions.BEGINSTRING_FIXT11.equals(beginString))

{ applVerID = getApplVerID(session, messageString); *************** *** 111,128 **** }

! MessageFactory messageFactory = session.getMessageFactory();
!
! DataDictionaryProvider ddProvider = session.getDataDictionaryProvider();
! DataDictionary sessionDataDictionary = ddProvider.getSessionDataDictionary(beginString);
! DataDictionary applicationDataDictionary = ddProvider.getApplicationDataDictionary(
! applVerID, customApplVerID);

quickfix.Message message = messageFactory.create(beginString, msgType);
! DataDictionary payloadDictionary = MessageUtils.isAdminMessage(msgType)
! ? sessionDataDictionary
! : applicationDataDictionary;
!
! message.parse(messageString, sessionDataDictionary, payloadDictionary,
! payloadDictionary != null);

return message;

— 120,130 ----
}

! payloadDataDictionary = ddProvider.getApplicationDataDictionary(applVerID,
! customApplVerID);
! }

quickfix.Message message = messageFactory.create(beginString, msgType);
! message.parse(messageString, sessionDataDictionary, payloadDataDictionary,
! payloadDataDictionary != null);

return message;

 Comments   
Comment by Jay Walters [ 03/Feb/09 ]

A little bit more in a separate file to help with the same issue.

      • quickfixj/core/src/main/java/quickfix/DataDictionary.java Thu Jan 15 11:47:03 2009
      • quickfixj-svn/core/src/main/java/quickfix/DataDictionary.java Thu Jan 15 10:33:19 2009
        ***************
      • 256,260 ****
        */
        public boolean isHeaderField(int field) { ! return messageFields.get(HEADER_ID).contains(field); }

— 256,261 ----
*/
public boolean isHeaderField(int field)

{ ! Set<Integer> hdrFields = messageFields.get(HEADER_ID); ! return (hdrFields == null) ? false : hdrFields.contains(field); }

***************

      • 1092,1096 ****
        addXMLGroup(document, componentFieldNode, msgtype, dd, isRequired);
        }
        !
        if (componentFieldNode.getNodeName().equals("component")) { String required = getAttribute(componentFieldNode, "required"); --- 1093,1097 ---- addXMLGroup(document, componentFieldNode, msgtype, dd, isRequired); }

        ! // Also need to take into account nested components
        if (componentFieldNode.getNodeName().equals("component")) {
        String required = getAttribute(componentFieldNode, "required");

Comment by Eric Deshayes [ 29/Apr/11 ]

This issue had already been fixed.
Potential null pointer prevention has been introduced in rev#926.

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