Hello all, I'm currently working on developing JMeter tests for my web application but have come up against a bit of a problem. I'm using Tapestry so there is some dynamic generation of URLs, which I can get around by using the regex post-processor to pull out the IDs I need. All good so far.
However, what I want to do now is simulate users clicking on random elements
in my left-hand pane. When the pane is rendered I can pull out all of the
links by using the right regex and setting the match number to -1. This
populates the variables tapestryPvalue_1, tapestryPvalue_2 etc.
So now I'd like to somehow have a subsequent request randomly choose one of
these variables to use. I noticed the ForEach controller, which is the kind
of thing I want, except I only want to use one of the variables.
Unfortunately I can't find any documentation about dynamically building up
variable names in JMeter; I tried the natural way of doing it and defined a
parameter as "${tapestryPvalue_${one}}" (having previously set up a user
defined variable called "one" that evaluated to "1") but that got sent
through as the literal string and not evaluated as I hoped. I also tried
some javascript indirection with
${__javascript("${tapestryPvalue_"+"${one}"+"}")}, noting that variables had
to be quoted so hopefully the JS engine would resolve the ${one} before
appending it, but no such luck.
At the moment this is academic anyway, as I couldn't get the __Random function
to accept ${tapestryPvalue_matchNr} as the maximum value (the logs indicated
a NumberFormatException was thrown which suggests this must be a literal).
My initial plan was to use this function to generate a random 'index', then
pass that variable in where I was using ${one} in the above paragraph.
Am I going about this the wrong way? Is there a way to dynamically access
elements of an array-type variable like this in JMeter, or am I pushing the
envelope too hard with this one? Any comments (including suggestions on
refactoring to work around this issue) are welcome.
Thanks,
Andrzej
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