Mikko, Thank you for your reply. Quite right, I can't afford the time to learn how to and then implement a Perl plugin for Jmeter. Thanks to Sebb's advice, however, I discovered that there may be an intermediary alternative: BeanShell scripting - that's assuming the BeanShell scripts defined Inside Jmeter can still invoke external programs (eg, bash or perl scripts) using the exec() function call. I test my BeanShell scripts outside Jmeter , on the command line , and they work, but I can't configure the BeanShell PostProcessor to get the same output in Jmeter - i can't see any output or even know where to find it. Also i'm not sure whether I should use a BeanShell PostProcessor or BeanShell Assertion , or RegEx PostProcessor or RegEx Assertion.
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 13:54 +0300, Mikko Ohtamaa wrote: > > Normally I would use RegEx for that. But it would be a lot easier to use > Perl or shell scripts to parse the Response Data the way I want. > How Can I make JMeter invoke a shell script , and use its result instead of > the built-in Response Assertion (which takes ORO RegEx). > > At least Jmeter core doesn't have any support for executing arbitary system > commands (not sure about 3rd party extensions). > > You need to write a plug-in Assertation component (Java) for JMeter which > invokes native system Perl command, passes out the request data (and all > known Jmeter variables?) via stdin, then reads stdout and parses Response > Data again. A better alternative would invoke Perl directly from Java, but I > am not sure if there exists Java<->Perl bridges. > > Quite much of work if you are not very skilled with Java. > > -Mikko > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
