And on that note, I'd like to introduce Thad as a candidate for comitter. I've been chatting with Thad for weeks now, and he's got some excellent ideas for improving JMeter. The new functions are all his that he sent to me and I comitted for him. Currently, he's working on making JMeter's functions work the way we all all want them to work (ie, allow functions as arguments to other functions), and he's also interested in working on more elements that will go along way toward providing general scripting abilities (the javascript function is just a start).
Thad Smith as comitter: +1 BTW, Keith - Thad lives in Austin too. -Mike On 19 Feb 2003 at 12:54, Thad Smith wrote: > Great questions. > > The current implemenation of the JavaScript function > is super simple...Basically it handles any javascript > statement that you can put in one line and does a > basic eval. For example, if the browsers date needs to > be passed in to a form, you can call the JavaScript > function with (new Date()).getTime() as the first > parameter. (We needed the ability to do just that for > testing our product.) > > It relies on the Mozilla Rhino javascript engine > (specifically the js.jar from the rhino download). > Mike checked it into the /lib directory, so you don't > have to worry about setting classpath or anything > else. It's a pretty good engine and fully implements > JavaScript 1.5, without any specific browser > functionality (you can't get to anything in the > browser's DOM such as document or document.forms if > you're used to writing javascript in the context of a > web page). Basically, it's the core language and > nothing else, so you can do text manipulation, math, > boolean logic, etc. The language spec can be > downloaded from > http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/ECMA-262.HTM > > Right now you are restricted to calling built-in > functions, but I do think a JavaScriptConfig class is > in order that would allow to write your own JavaScript > functions or load them from a file. Could be very > useful. > > Also, Rhino has built-in Java adapters for doing > call-backs into the system, which could also be very > useful. I haven't looked into how this works yet, so > if anyone has the time and is super interested in > doing this, check out the docs at > http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/ > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > > Thad > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > The new JavaScript function sounds like it will be a > > great thing. I'm sure the > > user community will like it. > > > > Could somebody explain how to use the new JavaScript > > function? Let's assume > > that I know very little about JavaScript. ;^) > > > > Here are a few of the things I am curious about: > > Do I have to download a particular JavaScript > > implementation from somewhere? > > Do I need to set up particular environment > > variables in a certain way > > (analagous to JAVA_HOME)? > > Am I restricted to calling built-in JavaScript > > functions? > > If I can write my own functions, do they need to > > be in a particular place? > > > > A brief example would also be nice. > > > > Thanks for your help, > > Keith > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Michael Stover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: mstover_ya ICQ: 152975688 AIM: mstover777 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
