On Saturday, May 9, 2015, Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >The idea of a marker for file looks fine to me to handle the use case. > >@Vladimir is it the case for you ? > > That's my case. > One day I faced a case when my ready-to-merge pull request was > rejected with no sensible explanation, thus I always pre-check > committers' opinion. was it with JMeter ? let me know which PR . > > >I don't see by the way how a "macro" could answer this > > In fact, we currently use a combo of CSV Dataset + Loop with CSV > Dataset to get the described behavior. > This is not fully automatic, but it allows to quickly specify the > number of rows to skip. > Although it might look a stretch use for "macros", it a macro in terms > of "using already existing blocks to get new functionality". > > Ok I understand, but I think in this case (as you said below) it is better to have it built-in. > >Feel free to create an enhancement request and possibly. provide a patch > implementing it. > > I scanned existing issues and found there was exactly this question in > jmeter-users list: > https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56961 , > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jmeter-user/201409.mbox/%3CCA+dXu06n=PhzO7Q_OkenL85ckSDbOzye3CE7=fi_gzckrx4...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > It looks like it might make sense implementing the following: > > "From "bug 56961" > >'Start from line' defines from what line, in a CSV Data file, > >JMeter will start reading when the first thread requires it. > > Defaults to 1 (one). If set to 0 or below it will start reading from a > random line. > > Add "remember position" value to 'Start from line' property, so when > used it would store the position in some side file (that is tricky in > terms of picking the proper storage folder for it and avoiding write > on each line fetch). Another side Idea regarding CSV dataset and randomisation is the ability to shuffle it at start of test which could allow some OOTB random extraction, I think this feature would be useful as I have seen it discussed many times and we require it in my company, I will open another discussion. > > Vladimir > -- Cordialement. Philippe Mouawad.
