Getting Session Properties (Username and Password) for QuickFix/n

Question

I have put my user name and password on the FIX configuration file. So I must think I should be able to get User name and passwords from some internal variable like session variable or SessionSetting variable or session.SessionDataDictionary or some other variable. However, I did not find any straight forward solution to get Username and Password from internal variable. ``` [SESSION] BeginString=FIX.4.4 SenderCompID= xxxxx Username= xxxx Password= xxxx ``` Probably this is very doable, logically speaking. However, neither anyone suggest to do this or I have not seen anyone doing this on google. Only code bit I found from google is this. ``` String username = sessionSettings.getString(sessionId, "Username"); //only works for Java version of QuickFix ``` However above code is only working for Java Version of QuickFix and this method is not available in DotNet Version of QuickFix (i.e. QuickFix/n) ``` getString(sessionId, "Username"); ``` I am looking to achieve similar results for FIX 4…

Accepted Answer

You are on the right track with `String username = sessionSettings.getString(sessionId, "Username");`, but the method call in QuickFIX/n is slightly different.

The call is more like `sessionSettings.Get(sessionId).GetString("Username");`.

See this example:

```
var configuration =
    new System.Text.StringBuilder().AppendLine("[ DEFAULT ]")
        .AppendLine("ConnectionType=initiator")
        .AppendLine("[SESSION]")
        .AppendLine("BeginString=FIX.4.4")
        .AppendLine("SenderCompID=Sender")
        .AppendLine("TargetCompID=Target")
        .AppendLine("Username=Gandalf")
        .AppendLine("Password=YouShallNotPass")
        .ToString();
var settings = new SessionSettings(new System.IO.StringReader(configuration));
var session = new SessionID("FIX.4.4", "Sender", "Target");
var sender = settings.Get(session).GetString("SenderCompID"); // Returns Sender
var user = settings.Get(session).GetString("Username"); // Returns Gandalf
var pass = settings.Get(session).GetString("Password"); // Returns YouShallNotPass
```

For reference, see the unit tests for SessionSettings.

Getting Session Properties (Username and Password) for QuickFix/n

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