For building efficently applications access to the dictionary is important. E.g. creating fieldlist to reduce message. overhead. I think it is not usefull tho load required dictionaries twice and handle this by usercode.
Here are some general directions that the architects and developers of the EMA had in mind while developing the EMA.
A) In general, the dictionaries are accessed only during the decoding of field list, e.g. to expand FID# into type and meaning, plus some more like enums expansions, etc.
Though this is possible to access dictionaries during encoding of field list to verify correctness of the encoding (e.g. data type) this is mostly skipped due to: 1) performance overhead, 2) limited error detection possibility.
C) EMA hides the dictionary from the user's view to simplify the encoding and decoding of field list. Please refer to the RFA and UPA dev guides how much dictionary code is needed to handle decoding of field list. Of course, these approaches have their own advantages too.
D) the hiding of the dictionaries in the EMA makes the encoding and decoding of element list and field list identical.
Hope these general guidelines provide some light on the situation.
Feel free to provide more details about your case so we can provide a better answer for you.
Yes, the loaded data dictionary is used internally in EMA. In EMA, you can create a fieldlist by using the following code.
try { FieldList fieldList; fieldList.info( 1, 1 ) .addUInt( 1, 64 ) .addReal( 6, 11, OmmReal::ExponentNeg2Enum ) .addDate( 16, 1999, 11, 7 ) .addTime( 18, 02, 03, 04, 005 ) .complete();} catch ( const OmmException & excp ) { cout << excp << endl;}
Hey,
for better understanding, i need the posibility to translate fieldnames into fieldids, for
1. Creating FieldID-List for view in MarketPrice-Request-Message.
2. Efficiently mapping of incoming messages in consumer, while decoding payload to application side databuffer. Excessively using of fieldlist.decoders-method "forth(EmaString&)" is insuffucient.
To pull the "tangible" dictionary that you can use, please see the example 332 Dictionary_Streaming
Hi @Reinhold.Blank
The New version of Elektron SDK - C++, 1.1.0, has been released. The package is available in this link. This version implements features which allow you to get access to the internal EMA dictionary via the thomsonreuters::ema::rdm::DataDictioanry class.
To get internal EMA dictionary, application needs to request "RWFFld" and
"RWFEnum" without service name and then create a new DataDictioanry instance with dictionary response's payload. Please see the "332__Dictionary__Streaming" example.
Application can also extract a DataDictionary object used by FieldList when decoding it via the DictionaryUtility::dataDictionary() static method.
Hi veerapath,
is was not there a longer time, so was really suprised that my request had got a positive responce.
Thanks!
Reinhold
