[ts-gen] Fair merge

[Bill Pippin]

Nils,

About selecting specific events from the shim's log stream, as opposed
to using two shim sessions: 

> ... There is one small reason [for multiple shim sessions] ...
> a small order reference log file without the tick noise makes
> it easier to control the order flow / status situation by inspection. 

Selected, user-focused displays are of course important.  As the first
step in choosing which events to display, it would be straight forward
but clumsy to use tail -f and grep with the --line-buffered option.
Since this would not scale very well for feature extension, a scripting
language such as ruby is probably the better option for the grep'ing
stage.

The key elements are patterns such as the following:

    CommandExec = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}1\|}        
     PlaceOrder = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}2\| 3\|15\|}
    CancelOrder = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}2\| 4\| 1\|}
    OrderStatus = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 3\| 6\|}
     ErrMessage = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 4\| 2\|}
     OpenOrders = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 5\|10\|}
      Portfolio = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 7\| 7\|}
    ContractSym = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\|10\| 6\|}
     Executions = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\|11\| 7\|}
     CmdEnqueue = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}4\|11\| 0\|}
    JournalPost = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}4\|12\| 0\|}

Once given the pattern matching, the code is trivial; a script
follows my sig, and I've also added the file choose.rb to the
exs directory, so that it will be included in the next release.

Thanks,

Bill

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#!/usr/bin/ruby

#  author: Bill Pippin, <pippin at trading-shim.com>, msgs may gate to the list
#  copyright (c) 2008 Trading-shim.com, LLC  Columbus, OH
#  GPL version 3 or later, see COPYING for details

# choose.rb:
# Choose a risk-focused subset of events given a shim log stream as input.
# Usage: e.g., tail -f log/ShimText | exs/choose.rb

# More precisely, match on src-tag-ver triples, split on vertical bars,
# slice the array to drop the first three fields, reconstitute via join,
# and slice the resulting string to fit the terminal display.

    CommandExec = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}1\|}        
     PlaceOrder = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}2\| 3\|15\|}
    CancelOrder = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}2\| 4\| 1\|}
    OrderStatus = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 3\| 6\|}
     ErrMessage = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 4\| 2\|}
     OpenOrders = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 5\|10\|}
      Portfolio = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\| 7\| 7\|}
    ContractSym = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\|10\| 6\|}
     Executions = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}3\|11\| 7\|}
     CmdEnqueue = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}4\|11\| 0\|}
    JournalPost = %r{^([^|]*\|){3}4\|12\| 0\|}

    def print_data line
      fields = line.chop.split('|')
      length = fields.size
      print fields[3,length].join('|')[0..78], "|\n"
    end

    STDIN.each do |x|
      case x
#       when CommandExec ; print_data x
        when  PlaceOrder ; print_data x
        when CancelOrder ; print_data x
        when OrderStatus ; print_data x
        when  ErrMessage ; print_data x
        when  OpenOrders ; print_data x
        when   Portfolio ; print_data x
        when ContractSym ; print_data x
        when  Executions ; print_data x
        when  CmdEnqueue ; print_data x
        when JournalPost ; print_data x
      end
    end