Using STAFF

You should be familiar with Ant to use STAFF. If not, please read Ant Documentation first. See also Ant Frequently Asked Questions.

The following tables provide a short description of each data type and task and a link to the complete documentation.

FIX Tasks and Types

Task Name	Description
Block	Task specify a set of FIX fields with values.
fixAcceptor	Type represents a FIX acceptor
fixDisconnectExpect	Task starts listen disconnect event.
fixDisconnectValidate	Task checks disconnect signal (if arrived) or wait time left from timeout - (current time - listener install time).
fixExecutor	Type represents a simple FIX executor.
fixField	Task accesses FIX message field. FIX groups are also supported.
fixFilterFixIn	Task intercept incoming messages.
fixFilterFixOut	Task intercept outgoing messages.
fixFilterRule	Test rule of filter.
fixInitiator	Type represents a FIX initiator.
fixLimit	Task is intended to ensure that no more messages were received by the FIX session. For example, if the session should not receive any messages during some period of time, you can check it with fixLimit task. If the message will be received during specified period of time, task fails.
fixMessage	Type represents a FIX message object.
fixReceive	Task receives FIX message from the session. Message verification including FIX fields and groups is supported.
fixSend	Task sends FIX message to the session.
fixSequenceReset	Task sends Sequence Reset message in reset mode to the FIX Peer.
fixStart	Task starts FIX initiator, acceptor or executor.
fixStop	Task stops FIX initiator, acceptor or executor.
fixWaitForLogin	Task waits for FIX session establishment.
setControlLevel	Task switchs level of messages controlled (Application/Session).

Task Name	Description
smtpAcceptor	Represents simple SMTP server. The tag has "configurationDirectory" parameter, that should contain path, absolute or relative, to the directory containing mail.conf, user.conf files. User.conf shouldn't be changed, mail.conf can be changed if necessary.
smtpMessage	Type represents a SMTP message object.
smtpReceive	Task receives SMTP message. Message verification is supported.
smtpStart	Task starts SMTP acceptor.
smtpStop	Task stops SMTP acceptor.

Task Name	Description
forExt	Task extends standard Ant <for> task.
random	Generates random number of specified type from the specified interval.
sqlExt	Task represent connection to DB.
Timestamp	Timestamp task generates 13 digits ESTTimestamp - count of milliseconds since the epoch (in UTC). The epoch is January 1st of 1970.
verifyCell	Task verifies DB field value.