Makes perfect sense. Thank you for the explaination.
--- Sebastian Bazley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The regexFunction is applied to the previous result
> in the test run.
>
> However, as with other Configuration items, the User
> Defined Variables test
> element is processed before any samplers are run.
>
> Thus the regexFunction will not have anything to
> work on.
>
> So I think the solution is either to add a Regex
> Extractor element as a
> child of the sampler that has returns the session
> id, or embed the
> regexFunction directly in the next sampler that
> needs to use it.
>
> ==
>
> By the way, regexes are "greedy", in particular
> "(.*)&" will not stop at the
> first "&" - it will continue until it finds the last
> possible "&".
> To make it non-greedy, use the "?" qualifier, e.g.
> "(.*?)&". Or code it as
> "([^&]*)&", i.e. 0 or more characters that are "not
> &".
>
> S.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "JMeter Users List"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 11:03 PM
> Subject: RE: Unable to get __regexFunction to work
>
>
> I havent used this function before so if you cant
> get the following to work
> then I'll try it out and investigate it.
>
> From the user manua it says:
> Stored values are ${refName} (the replacement
> template string) and
> ${refName_g#} where "#" is the group number from the
> regular expression ("0"
> can be used to refer to the entire match).
>
> Therefore see what is in the variable
> ${getSessionId_g1}
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ope [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sat 6/19/2004 6:47 AM
> To: JMeter Users List
> Cc:
> Subject: RE: Unable to get __regexFunction to work
> The sessionid may not necessarily be all numbers.
> It
> is a random string that contains letters and
> numbers.
> In any case I checked to be certain and neither
> ${getSessionId} or ${sessionid} appear in the
> recorded
> session and I see the full SessionID.
>
> Is the __regexFunction meant to be used in the way
> that I describe? Can I put the function in the
> Value
> column in User Defined Variables in the Test Plan?
> The regular expression is ok I think because I can
> use
> the same expression in a Regular Expression
> Extractor
> and it works.
>
> ope
>
> --- "BAZLEY, Sebastian"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That should be (\d+).
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Craig Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 18 June 2004 02:07
> > To: JMeter Users List
> > Subject: RE: Unable to get __regexFunction to work
> >
> >
> > Wouldn't that be the ${getSessionId} variable?
> Also,
> > if session ids are
> > numeric, then consider
> >
>
${__regexFunction(SessionID=(/d+),$1$,1,,NOSESSIONID,getSessionId)}
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ope [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 12:40 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Unable to get __regexFunction to work
> >
> > I am trying to use the __regexFunction but can't
> get
> > it work the way that I want. Either I am
> > misunderstanding the way that it works (most
> likely)
> > or the function doesn't work.
> >
> > What I am trying to do is create a regex function
> > that
> > will match a SessionID found in returned web pages
> > while recording a session. What I have done is
> > created a User Defined Variable in the Test Plan.
> > The
> > Name of the variable is sessionid and I have put
> the
> > following __regexFunction in for the Value:
> >
>
${__regexFunction(SessionID=(.*)&,$1$,1,,NOSESSIONID,getSessionId)}
> >
> > The SessionID will be found in a string that looks
> > something like this:
> >
> screen=startScreen&SessionID=123456789&objectID=4321
> >
> > The I start the HTTP Proxy Server in the WorkBench
> > and
> > record my test. After running the test and
> stopping
> > the proxy server I take a look in my recorded
> > session
> > and the sessionids have not been replaced with a
> > ${sessionid} variable. I have some other user
> > defined
> > variables in the Test Plan that have hard coded
> > values
> > and they have all been replaced with the variable
> as
> > expected.
> >
> > How can I use the __regexFunction to parse my
> > recorded
> > session and replace all instances of the actual
> > session id with a variable? Is this possible in
> the
> > way that I am trying to do it?
>
>
>
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