• fix_tags - explore FIX tags and their associated values either as CLI output or a GUI-like textual interface
• fix_parse_log - extract FIX lines from a (log) file and present them in a nicely formatted grid
• webfix - present copy-n-paste'd FIX lines into a nicely formatted grid

pip3 install fixations

Click on the link below since it was too small to asciicast in this page

Webfix needs to be used with either Flask (for dev purposes)

$ python -m flask --app fixations.webfix run
 * Serving Flask app 'fixations.webfix'
 * Debug mode: off
WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment. 
Use a production WSGI server instead.
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000
Press CTRL C to quit

or something like gunicorn (or other WSGI servers) for production uses:

$ gunicorn fixations.wsgi:app
[2023-01-16 19:55:31 -0500] [3380019] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 20.1.0
[2023-01-16 19:55:31 -0500] [3380019] [INFO] Listening at: http://127.0.0.1:8000 (3380019)
[2023-01-16 19:55:31 -0500] [3380019] [INFO] Using worker: sync
[2023-01-16 19:55:31 -0500] [3380028] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 3380028

The data is extracted from the FIX specs available here:

https://www.fixtrading.org/packages/fix-repository-2010/ (see fix_repository_2010_edition_20200402.zip).

NOTE: it requires the creation of a login/password to access it.

Every so often the https://www.fixtrading.org website will issue an extension pack, i.e. an update to their FIX reference for FIX 5.0SP2

The list of extension packs can be found here

https://www.fixtrading.org/extension-packs/

That's where one can find a pointer to an EP download button that points to something like:

https://www.fixtrading.org/packages/ep287/

Within it, one needs to download the matching ZIP file:

FIXBasicRepository_FIX.Latest_EP287.zip

Which can be unzip to reveal a directory called Basic which contains the same XML file Fixations requires:

unzip -v FIXBasicRepository_FIX.Latest_EP287.zip | grep Basic |grep xml
   78310  Defl:N     8753  89% 02-06-2024 10:32 579086ea  Basic/Abbreviations.xml
   12902  Defl:N     1432  89% 02-06-2024 10:32 719a08e3  Basic/Categories.xml
  395051  Defl:N    36228  91% 02-06-2024 10:32 1936d9af  Basic/Components.xml
   33163  Defl:N     5675  83% 02-06-2024 10:32 7efbdd59  Basic/Datatypes.xml
 1554894  Defl:N   194377  88% 02-06-2024 10:34 4def9e3d  Basic/Enums.xml
 2269559  Defl:N   266814  88% 02-06-2024 10:32 7fe17774  Basic/Fields.xml
 8187931  Defl:N   745380  91% 02-06-2024 10:34 75dc5b17  Basic/IntermediateRepository.xml
  105161  Defl:N    17924  83% 02-06-2024 10:32 348735e8  Basic/Messages.xml
 3144399  Defl:N   213711  93% 02-06-2024 10:32 8c5d516a  Basic/MsgContents.xml
    2230  Defl:N      739  67% 02-06-2024 10:32 e6dc9b4e  Basic/Sections.xml

You need to cp those files into fixations/fix_repository_2010_edition_20200402/FIX.5.0SP2/Base. Note the Base vs Basic directory.

Note: I will try to keep an eye on new extension packs and update this repo accordingly

1. create a hyperlink to FIX specs for each tag based on FIX version ✅
2. add more info to README.md. Use rule80A and 47 as example for fix_args ✅
3. add more example(s)
4. add some pytest to detect the FIX version for example ✅
5. add "direction" to columns to show whether it's a request or a response
6. catch exceptions and display them on the webpage
7. deploy to https://vercel.com/
8. allow creating an ASCII table equivalent suitable to be cut-n-paste into a document for example
9. add a short link ala tinyurl and save it into a sqlite3 db store ✅
10. black theme?
11. allow to have no leading timestamp and use the timestamp FIX tags instead ✅
12. add proper Logger
13. add DB stats
14. pypi.org can't display the ASCII screencast images. Need to reference GitHub's full path?
15. Give the option to remove or hide/obfuscate some sensitive fields such as tag55 or senderCompId/targetComPid ✅
16. Show the delta between each timestamp (below each timestamp) ✅
17. Transpose the grid/matrix ✅
18. Shift-Enter = pressing on [Parse FIX] button ✅
19. Support FIX Repeating Groups ✅
20. When using fix_parse_log.py, also upload the same data to the webfix app to generate a tiny URL ✅
21. Add an option to sort the entries by log timestamp. Useful when grep over multiple files
22. Add smart comments when comments aren't provided, based on simple rules on tags: 35=D and 8002=1 then comment="blah"
23. Add top tags to the ASCII version