ApplQueueAction (FIX tag 815)

intFIX 4.4

ApplQueueAction (tag 815) is an int field defined in FIX 4.4. It appears in 1 message type, always optionally. It is an enumerated field with 4 defined values.

At a glance

Tag
815
Name
ApplQueueAction
Datatype
int
Dialects
FIX 4.4
Messages
1
Valid values
4

What the specification says

Action to take to resolve an application message queue (backlog).

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

A real message using tag 815

MarketDataRequest · FIX 4.4
TagFieldWire valueMeaning
8BeginStringFIX.4.4
9BodyLength120
35MsgTypeVMarket Data Request
49SenderCompIDBOARTEAM
56TargetCompIDCOUNTERPARTY
34MsgSeqNum2
52SendingTime20240101-12:00:00.000
262MDReqIDREQ-1
263SubscriptionRequestType0Snapshot
264MarketDepth1
267NoMDEntryTypes1 entry1repeating group
269MDEntryType0Bid
146NoRelatedSym1 entry1repeating group
55SymbolEUR/USD
815ApplQueueAction0No action taken
10CheckSum018
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.

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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.

Valid values

A value outside this list is not a parse error — the message still decodes — but validate() reports it as validate/value-not-in-enum.

ValueMeaningSymbolic name
0No action takenNO_ACTION_TAKEN
1Queue flushedQUEUE_FLUSHED
2Overlay lastOVERLAY_LAST
3End sessionEND_SESSION

Where tag 815 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.

MessageMsgTypeRequirednessWhere in the message
MarketDataRequestVOptionaldirectly on the message body

Wire format

A whole number, optionally signed. Leading zeros are legal on the wire and are preserved in the raw value. @boarteam/fix parses the value as a number and reports parse/invalid-int when it does not lex as one; the raw string is kept either way.

Read tag 815 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 applQueueAction = message.fields[815]?.raw;// e.g. "0" — No action taken// The dictionary also carries the labels:const label = fix.dictionary  .fieldByTag(815)  ?.enumValues?.find((e) => e.value === applQueueAction)  ?.description;

Other int fields

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