Well, I haven't had a chance to document this yet, so forgive me. The counter
function
creates two stored values:
yourname_true
yourname_false
These versions represent the TRUE and FALSE versions of the first argument.
-Mike
On 21 Aug 2002 at 20:51, John Kavadias wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have been experimenting with some of the JMeter 1.7.3 improvements over JMeter
>1.7. Nice!
>
> I am having trouble properly using the __counter function. My understanding from the
>manual is not improving with re-reading.
>
> I am not using the 'Name of function', the second argument to __counter, properly.
>
> What exactly is the second argument to __counter?
>
> Say I have ${__counter(FALSE,mycount)} used somewhere in the object tree beneath a
>Thread Group.
>
> My understanding of the second argument is this:
>
> Use it to to expand the counter value 'again', without incrementing the counter
>value, by putting ${mycount} elsewhere in the Test Plan, under the same Thread Group.
>
> Bearing in mind this test plan is tinkering, not a serious test:
>
> Test Plan (variable: testhost, value: my hostname)
> Thread Group (threads: 3, ramp up: 0, count: 1)
> User Parameters (username, password [defined for 3 users])
> HTTP Request Defaults (server name: ${testhost})
> Simple Controller
> HTTP Request (path: /my/login/url,
> param: username, value: ${username}
> param: password, value: ${password}
> param: counterTest, value: ${__counter(FALSE,mycount)} )
> HTTP Request (path: /some/other/url,
> param: testTheCounter, value: ${mycount} )
>
> counterTest in the first HTTP request has the expected values (1, 2, 3) for the
>requests generated by the 3 threads in the group. The global counter for the Thread
>Group is incremented on each reference to ${__counter(args)}.
>
> testTheCounter in the second HTTP request is just ${mycount}.
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
> John Kavadias [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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