Hello @alan.bain,

We use the dictionaries downloaded from the infrastructure (server, ADS) in the vast majority of the use cases, with very few exceptions.

We do not recommend the prior checking of the version of the dictionary loaded from the infrastructure, and then making the decision if to use it, based on the version.

The dictionary on the infra is the exact dictionary that is used to structure the data that the application is receiving. The dictionaries that are used to consume on the client app should be identical to the dictionaries used on the infra to publish, which will allow to avoid the parsing errors.

And yes, usually the dictionary on the infrastructure is one of the latest, or the latest, while the dictionary that was supplied with SDK is the dictionary that was current at the time of the SDK release and tends to be older. But regardless of this, the downloaded dictionary always matches. It can be neither older nor newer, can not be a subset of fids.

In RFA Java example Consumer from SDK, instead of trying to load dictionaries from files first, and only requesting from the infra failing that, just comment out loading from files check, and see sendDictionaryRequests(chnl) executed regardless, this is what a production app would do.

Can you point me at the example? The Quickstart consumer example only seems to load the dictionaries from files.

hi @alan.bain,

Tutorial 10 - Downloading the Data Dictionaries within the RFAJ Tutorials section discusses loading the dictionary from the server.