--- Mike Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The encoding simply
> > takes characters that are special to JMeter and
> > escapes them (${}(),\) making it easy to write an
> > encoded function by hand.
> >
> > For instance, if a regex function referenced a
> > variable it would now look something like:
> > ${__regexFunction(\$\{pattern\},\$1\$,1,,,)}. The
> > Function Helper Dialog has been updated as well as
> all
> > of the standard functions.
>
> This seems backwards from what we discussed.
> Shouldn't the characters only
> need escaping if the user is trying to use them as
> literals in a string (as a
> parameter value, for instance)?
>
> So:
>
> ${__regexFunction(${pattern},$1$,1,,,)}
> means that the regex function will use as it's
> pattern, whatever the value of
> the ${pattern} variable is.
>
> ${__regexFunction(\$\{pattern\},$1$,1,,,)}
> means that the regex function will use "${pattern}"
> as it's regular
> expression.
>
> This would be far preferable, in my view, because
> then characters are only getting
> escaped in unusual situations. Make sense?
Of coarse...The only problem I have with it is that it
puts the job of encoding the strings on the user
instead of the function helper dialog. Let me think
about it for a bit. Any other opinions?
Thad
> -Mike
>
> >
> > I'll try to get this in the docs this week.
> >
> > Any questions?
> >
> > Thad
> >
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