FIXTradingCommunity/fix-simple-binary-encoding

Should `ref` use custom offset of the referred type?

OleksandrKvl opened this issue · 0 comments

Documentation says that offset attribute of type/enum/set/composite is used only if it's "a member of a composite type". Is usage of such type via ref considered as "a member of a composite type"? There are 4 cases:

  1. Type has custom offset, ref doesn't.
  2. Both of them have custom offsets.
  3. Type doesn't have custom offset, ref has it. In this case it feels natural that ref's offset should be used.
  4. Neither of them have custom offset. No problem here.

I guess that ref simply should not care about custom offset of the referred type, can someone confirm or correct me please?