I have just committed what I believe are fixes to the problems mentioned below.
Additionally, nested user-defined variables should now work, and user-defined
variables are now loaded from file correctly.
-Mike
On 17 Jul 2002 at 9:49, Derek Baum wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I'm writing some functions to generate sequential and random numbers
> with the ability to re-seed the random number generator, so that after
> the first sequential or random number the following random numbers will
> be repeatable. This allows me to generate repeatable pseudo-random data.
>
> Rather than making this one function with lots of arguments, I wanted to
> split it up into more frendly smaller functions, for example:
> ${__seq(setSeed)}, ${__rand(max, setSeed)}.
>
> I have two minor problems:
>
> 1. I wrote the functions as inner classes, since they are closely
> related and need to share data. However the call to
> ClassFinder.findClassesThatExtend() in CompoundFunction.java does not
> discover inner classes. This is easily fixed by adding a boolean "true"
> argument.
>
> 2. My functions are being called twice for each variable substitution,
> which means that I only get every other sequential number in my test
> data. replaceValues() in TestCompiler.java is called twice from
> configureSampler() [directly from line 115 and indirectly via
> layeredElement() on line 123]. I have not found an easy way to stop the
> duplicate call in configureSampler(). Instead I am keeping a WeakHashMap
> in my function's execute() methods that detects if it is called with the
> same SampleResult, but this is a bit messy.
>
> //derek
>
>
> Mike Stover wrote:
>
> >Users,
> > There is a new unstable release -> 1.7.2. It seems pretty solid so far, and I
>have more
> >confidence in it at this point than the previous production release (1.7).
> >
> >Developers/power users,
> > I've made a first pass at the GUI elements related to the new functions.
>There is a
> >brief doc page about functions (only in CVS, not on website). User
> >defined variables can be created in the TestPlan GUI element, and a dialog can
> >assist you in generating the correct syntax for your function calls. The dialog is
> >available from the "Options" menu. Currently, there is only one function
>implemented (but it's
> >an interesting one).
> >
> >Creating new functions should be easy and fun (hint, hint). You don't need to
>write any GUI
> >code. Just follow the directions in the JavaDocs for the
>org.apache.jmeter.functions.Function
> >interface. Also org.apache.jmeter.functions.AbstractFunction, which you may want
>to extend.
> >
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