LegBenchmarkCurveName (FIX tag 677)

StringFIX 4.4

LegBenchmarkCurveName (tag 677) is a String field defined in FIX 4.4. It appears in 5 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag: 677
Name: LegBenchmarkCurveName
Datatype: String
Dialects: FIX 4.4
Messages: 5

What the specification says

Name of the Leg Benchmark Curve. See BenchmarkCurveName(221) for description and valid values.

Descriptions are quoted from the FIX Orchestra sources under the Apache 2.0 licence.

A real message using tag 677

Quote · FIX 4.4

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIX.4.4
9	BodyLength	129
35	MsgType	S	Quote
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
117	QuoteID	EXAMPLE
555	NoLegs2 entries	2	repeating group
600	LegSymbol	EXAMPLE
677	LegBenchmarkCurveName	EXAMPLE
600	LegSymbol	EXAMPLE
677	LegBenchmarkCurveName	EXAMPLE
10	CheckSum	146

Edit and decode it yourself

Shown with | separators for readability. On the wire FIX uses SOH (0x01), an invisible control byte — and because BodyLength and CheckSum are computed over the actual bytes, the two forms have different checksums. Both are valid and both decode here.

Open in the full decoder →

Generated from the FIX 4.4 dictionary and verified at build time: it parses and validates with no issues. Open the decoder to try your own message.

Where tag 677 appears

Requiredness is a property of the message, not of the field: the same tag can be optional in one message and conditionally required in another.

Message	MsgType	Requiredness	Where in the message
Quote	S	Optional	inside LegQuotGrp › LegBenchmarkCurveData
QuoteRequest	R	Optional	inside QuotReqGrp › QuotReqLegsGrp › LegBenchmarkCurveData
QuoteRequestReject	AG	Optional	inside QuotReqRjctGrp › QuotReqLegsGrp › LegBenchmarkCurveData
QuoteResponse	AJ	Optional	inside LegQuotGrp › LegBenchmarkCurveData
SecurityList	y	Optional	inside SecListGrp › InstrmtLegSecListGrp › LegBenchmarkCurveData

Wire format

Free-form text. Any byte except the SOH separator is legal, so values are not trimmed or case-folded on the wire. @boarteam/fix keeps the value as a string; format rules are checked by validate(), which reports validate/invalid-value rather than throwing.

Read tag 677 in TypeScript

decode.tsts

import { createFixEngine } from "@boarteam/fix";import { dictionary } from "@boarteam/fix-dict-fix44";const fix = createFixEngine(dictionary);const { message, issues } = fix.parse(raw);const field = message.fields[677];field?.name;   // "LegBenchmarkCurveName"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a string

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

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