@p

EMA provides an interface to access the hex buffer. For example:

void AppClient::onRefreshMsg( const RefreshMsg& refreshMsg, const OmmConsumerEvent& ) 
{
    cout << refreshMsg << endl;        // defaults to refreshMsg.toString()
    const EmaBuffer& buffer = refreshMsg.getAsHex();
    cout << "Length:" << buffer.length() << endl;
    cout << buffer.asRawHexString() << endl;
}

However, I can't find a way to convert the raw buffer back to RefreshMsg.

The unit test example (RTSDK-2.1.1.L1.win.rrg\Cpp-C\Ema\Examples\Test\UnitTest\RefreshMsgTests.cpp) shows how to use the StaticDecoder::setRsslData method to get an EMA RefreshMsg from an ETA RsslMsg. However, I think it is for testing purpose.

If you have Refinitiv Developer Connect (RDC) contacts, you can submit this query to the API support via Contact Premium support to verify this kind of usage. Otherwise, you can submit this question to the developer team directly via GitHub.

@p

Thank you for reaching out to us.

The Refinitiv Real-Time SDK contains two APIs (EMA and ETA). EMA is built on top of ETA.

EMA is the high level and ease of use API that operates data at the message level, such as RefreshMsg, and UpdateMsg. ETA is the low level and high performance API that operates data at the transport and buffer level. rsslEncodeMsg, rsslDecodeMsg, and RsslMsg are interfaces in ETA which don't work with EMA classes.

Moreover, the APIs don't provide any interfaces to convert EMA RefreshMsg to ETA RsslRefreshMsg, or vice versa.

If you would like to record and replay data, you can use the testclient and testserver tools. For more information, please refer to the Quick Start Guide to Recording and Playback of Refinitiv Real-Time Data article

We can't use testclient/testserver tools in our local and our production environment (they are closed source and we can't use them without breaking our security policy). We have to write code to encode/decode message. If eta is raw transport buffer level, when I get callback using EMA what I have is RefreshMsg, it means it converts rssl(ETA) to EMA. I must be able to get raw buffer and dump to disk, next time I can read it back and convert to EMA myself since this way the only difference is network buffer vs disk buffer. Please advise, how do I: 1) get hold on underlying buffer from RefreshMsg later on 2) how to convert saved buffer to RefreshMsg?

Will do. Opening RDC ticket now, thanks.