NIP with unexpected 6dp value

Andrew Cheung

We have a NIP publish live updates to TREP, any idea what is the problem?

When we do publish from RFA C++ via NIP with 2dp and it publish unexpected 6dp value

small program create a publisher, Publishes UPLIMIT=0, then UPLIMIT=2109.45 and finally UPLIMIT=2109.45 with precision hint as 2. All these values directly hard coded in the code. why we got unexpected 6dp

UPLIMIT : REAL 2 : [0.000000]

UPLIMIT : REAL 5 : [2109.449999]

UPLIMIT : REAL 4 : [2109.44]

Jirapongse

@Andrew Cheung @Kung.S

I think it could be a limitation when multiplying double and integer, as mentioned in this thread.

For example, the following code prints 2109449999, not 2109450000.

    Int64  x = 2109.45 * 1000000;
    printf("#### %lld \n", x); //2109449999

You can try the solution (llround) mentioned in that thread.

    Int64  x = llround(2109.45 * 1000000);
    printf("#### %lld \n", x); //2109450000

umer.nalla

Hi @Andrew Cheung

Please share the code snippet you use to encode the above fields.

Also, enable IPCTrace in RFA and share the trace file - so we can see what is happening at the wire level - as described in Activate full message logs for RSSL connections in RFA C++ - Forum | Refinitiv Developer Community

The example above is for a standard Consumer RSSL connection - you will need to apply similar changes for the RSSL_NIPROV connection being used by your NIP.

Also, if you are writing a new NIP from scratch or upgrading an existing NIP application, I strongly recommend you use Enterprise Message API - which is part of our strategic RT-SDK - and is much easier to learn and code in than RFA.

RFA is a feature-complete/legacy API with no new features etc to be supported in the future - other than basic maintenance releases.

Kung.S

It appears that some of the value will be correct, and some will be wrong when we set the precisionHint to various values.

For instance

Double value 2109.45

precision 6

<FS>316<US>XX<GS>ASOK.BO<US><RS>

UPLIMIT : REAL 11 : [2109.449999]

precision 7

<FS>316<US>XX<GS>ASOK.BO<US><RS>

UPLIMIT : REAL 12 : [2109.4500000]

precision 8

<FS>316<US>XX<GS>ASOK.BO<US><RS>

UPLIMIT : REAL 13 : [2109.44999999]

precision 9

<FS>316<US>XX<GS>ASOK.BO<US><RS>

UPLIMIT : REAL 14 : [2109.449999999]

Double value 103.07

precision 6

<FS>316<US>XX<GS>ASOK.BO<US><RS>

UPLIMIT : REAL 10 : [103.070000]

precision 7

UPLIMIT : REAL 11 : [103.0699999]

precision 8

<FS>316<US>XX<GS>ASOK.BO<US><RS>

UPLIMIT : REAL 12 : [103.07000000]

precision 9

<FS>316<US>XX<GS>ASOK.BO<US><RS>

UPLIMIT : REAL 13 : [103.070000000]

Here is the code which calls RFA to publish the data

void RFAPubMessage::setDoubleValue(double dValue, IMDFieldDescriptor* fDesc, unsigned int precisionHint)

{

m_dataBuffer.clear();

RFAFieldDescriptor* rfaDesc = reinterpret_cast<RFAFieldDescriptor*>(fDesc);

switch (rfaDesc->fDef()->getOMMType())

{

case rfa::data::DataBuffer::Real32Enum:

case rfa::data::DataBuffer::Real64Enum:

{

rfa::data::Real64 realValue;

if ((rfa::common::UInt8)precisionHint > rfa::data::Exponent0){

precisionHint = (unsigned int)rfa::data::Exponent0;

}

realValue.setValue((rfa::common::Int64)(dValue * s_nDecimalMap[precisionHint]));

realValue.setMagnitudeType(rfa::data::Exponent0 - (rfa::common::UInt8)precisionHint);

m_dataBuffer.setReal(realValue);

break;

}

case rfa::data::DataBuffer::DoubleEnum:

m_dataBuffer.setDouble(dValue);

break;

case rfa::data::DataBuffer::FloatEnum:

m_dataBuffer.setFloat((rfa::common::Float)dValue);

break;

default:

throw MDETException (MD_INVALID_DATA_TYPE, "Data type mismatch!");

}

m_fieldEntry.clear();

m_fieldEntry.setFieldID((rfa::common::Int16)fDesc->getFieldId());

m_fieldEntry.setData(m_dataBuffer);

m_fieldListIterator.bind(m_fieldEntry);

}