On 31/03/2008, Steve Kapinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need help understanding how parameters are handled vs variables
>
> I have a working test plan setup where using a User Parameter element, I
> define two variables to be defined as the following for 'user1' thread
>
> tmsIP = 10.1.2.178
> feedbackURL = ${tmsIP}/tms/public/feedback/code.aspx
>
> Feedback URL is then fed into the path for SOAP/XML-RPC Requests in the
> project and functions where feedbackURL =
> 10.1.2.178/tms/public/feedback/code.aspx when the test plan executes.
>
> I understand the difference between this element and a 'user defined
> variables' element to be that the user parameters element allows me to
> define different values for each thread. However, if I try the same
> exact definitions in a user variable element, instead of user parameters
> element, the feedbackURL variable no longer equates to
> 10.1.2.178/tms/public/feedback/code.aspx in the test plan, but rather
> the literal string ${tmsIP}/tms/public/feedback/code.aspx and the
> SOAP/XML-RPC elements fail with an invalid URL
>
> Why is the user parameter method evaluating the variable, while the user
> variable one does not? There isn't nesting going on here.
However, variables defined on the UDV element are not available until
the element completes. You can refer to such variables in a second
UDV. [The docs in SVN have been updated to make this clearer].
>
> Also, this test plan has lots of SOAP/XML requests that may be
> simplified using a loop with an input file vs the separate elements like
> I have currently. The XML string has jmeter variables in it that need
> to be subtituted. Right now, I have it setup where the Soap/XML-RPC
> data simply (wasn't so simple to create so many!) contains the XML data
> to send with the variables entered right in the data field of the
> xml-rpc element. This is working as expected.
>
> Example
>
> <Status xmlns="http://www.tandberg.no/XML/CUIL/1.0";>
> <Identification>
> <SystemName>${mpsSystemName}</SystemName>
> <MACAddress>${mpsSystemMACAddr}</MACAddress>
> </Identification>
> </Status>
>
> Over 100 soap/xml elements are called sequentially with data that looks
> like the above, but with more tagging along with it.
>
> If I wanted to simplfy the jmeter setup by doing this by using one
> soap/xml-rpc element in a loop, how would I do that? If I set a csv
> data set config to define a variable say ${statusXMLstring} which read
> from a CSV file which contains the xml strings like above, and just put
> ${statusXMLstring} in the data field of the soap/xml-rpc element in
> jmeter, what would the data in the CSV file have to look like for the
> variables ${mpsSystemName} and ${mpsSystemMACAddr} be substitued
> properly?
hostname,MACADDR
> I've been struggling with getting variables substutied for their real
> values vs being sent as literal strings and I haven't quite figured out
> the error of my ways yet.
http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#Debug_Sampler
may be useful here.
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