Currency
base: StringFIX 4.4FIX 4.2FIX 5.0 SP2
Currency is a FIX datatype defined in FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2 and FIX 5.0 SP2, carried on the wire as String. 17 fields use it.
Wire format
- Base type
- String
- Fields
- 17
A three-letter ISO 4217 code.
What the specification says
FIX 4.4
string field representing a currency type using ISO 4217 Currency code (3 character) values (see Appendix 6-A).
FIX 4.2
String field (see definition of "String" above) representing a currency type (see Appendix A-Valid Currency Codes).
FIX 5.0 SP2
3-character code
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
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.
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