[morten]

Also not able to change nickname. Getting incorrect validation error when trying to change nickname. (Nickname must be >3 characters)

[morten]

Continuing with my example above. Let’s say I want to list the files in my current directory:

q)key’:.

KDB Insights introduces object storage that allows us to e.g. list files in an S3 bucket:

q)key”$”:s3://kxinsights-marketplace-data/”

”’s#’_inventory’db’par.txt’sym’symlinks

The functionality to interact with S3 is not part of vanilla Q. It’s provided by KDB Insights – in particular the shared object libobjstor.so shipped with KDB Insights.

My question is how do we create such custom protocols using the C API? As a contrived example, perhaps I wanted to list all open positions in my IBKR trading account:

q)key’$”:ibkr://account1/”

Of course, I could create a regular function to do this, but let’s assume I really, really like this new syntax.