Country
base: StringFIX 4.4FIX 5.0 SP2
Country is a FIX datatype defined in FIX 4.4 and FIX 5.0 SP2, carried on the wire as String. 5 fields use it.
Wire format
- Base type
- String
- Fields
- 5
A two-letter ISO 3166 country code.
What the specification says
FIX 4.4
string field representing a country using ISO 3166 Country code (2 character) values (see Appendix 6-B).
FIX 5.0 SP2
String representing a country using ISO 3166 Country code (2 character) values.
Descriptions are quoted from the FIX Orchestra sources under the Apache 2.0 licence.
How @boarteam/fix handles it
@boarteam/fix keeps the value as a string; format rules are checked by validate(), which reports validate/invalid-value rather than throwing.
Fields with this datatype
| Tag | Field | Dialects | Messages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 421 | Country | FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2, FIX 5.0 SP2 | 1 |
| 470 | CountryOfIssue | FIX 4.4, FIX 5.0 SP2 | 59 |
| 475 | InvestorCountryOfResidence | FIX 4.4, FIX 5.0 SP2 | 1 |
| 592 | UnderlyingCountryOfIssue | FIX 4.4, FIX 5.0 SP2 | 59 |
| 596 | LegCountryOfIssue | FIX 4.4, FIX 5.0 SP2 | 50 |
Decode this in your own code
The same engine that produced the decoded example above is an Apache-2.0 npm package with zero runtime dependencies. It runs in Node and in the browser, and parse() returns problems as data instead of throwing.
npm i @boarteam/fix @boarteam/fix-dict-fix44