How to validate a FIX message against Fix dictionary in QuickFix/J?

Question

If validation is on in QuickFix/J, the received FIX message is validated against the FIX dictionary configured for Fix engine.

ValidateIncomingMessage| Allow to bypass the message validation (against the dictionary). Default is "Y".

Is there any utility class or method present in QuickFix/J which provides me this functionality to validate a sample Fix message against a Fix dictionary?

Answer 1

You want to use DataDictionary.validate()

            DataDictionary dataDictionary = new DataDictionary( pathToDictionary );
            Message quickfixMessage = new Message( message, dataDictionary );
            dataDictionary.validate( quickfixMessage );

where message is the fix message. QuickfixJ includes some dictionaries in the etc folder.