> > This is part of the functionality I'm looking for. I also need some
> > rudimentary support for defining variables, so that values extracted
> > from one response document can be used later in the test. Ant
> > properties seem to do a good job of this.
>
> How could you do that in Ant?
>
> In Latka, you can set properties, and refer to them with $ notation,
> but I don't think you can define new vars during a test.
You cannot do this using an externally visible task, but in your Java
code you can set the values of properties. If you really want to do
it, you can even write a <set> task that sets the value of a property
(not that I want to do it ;-).
> > > Note that it doesn't use Ant. I suspect this is actually a good
> > > thing. Ant 1.x is not flexible enough to be easily repurposed as a
> > > http testing engine. This will apparently be fixed in Ant 2, which
> > > will be a generic "task execution engine", but for now, it's
> > > probably harder to turn Ant into something it's not, than to start
> > > again. For instance, there have been *many* submissions of an
> > > iterate, or <foreach> task:
> >
> > As I looked at Ant, it appears to me the internal architecture is well
> > designed and could support the testing framework I think of. The only
> > problem I see is the usage of SAX1 API, which precludes one from using
> > XML namespaces. I think this problem can be fixed though, by doing the
> > appropriate changes within Ant, the code is very well localized. Other
> > than this issue, I don't see any reason why Ant would not be a good
> > framework to support this testing framework.
> >
> > Would you please elaborate on your reasons why Ant's engine would not
> > provide a good testing framework?
>
> Grumble.. no-one's free to make wild unsubstantiated claims these
> days.. ;) It rather depends on how far you want to go with the
> "scripting" side of things. Eg, it is not possible to reassign variables
> in Ant, so the following might not be possible:
>
> <iterate name="i" start="0" end="100" increment="1">
> <spawn threads="$">
> <url-post href="$/test/echo"
> content="contents/sample.xml"/>
> </spawn>
> </iterate>
>
> Other than that, I have no specific reasons why Ant couldn't be used,
> only a general warning that this is not ordinary Ant usage. Ant was
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