On 31/03/2008, Steve Kapinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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].
>
>
> Thanks, that was it. I also was struggling because jmeter was not
> telling me this was an unknown variable. For instance, I was fighting
> this along with another typo that was leading me not to understand why
> variables were not being substituted. The other problem was a simple
> typo in the variable reference, but since jmeter never told me the
> variable name was unknown, it wasn't obvious what the issue was. Is
> there a reason jmeter doesn't log unknown variable references in
> jmeter.log under normal conditions?
>
It never logs unknown variables or functions - they are just not substituted.
>
> > 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
>
>
> No, I know what the CSV itself should look like.. The question is what
> would variables in the actual string need to look like to be subtituted
> properly.
>
> In the SOAP/XML-RPC element, I want to make the data field just be
> ${xmlstring} where ${xmlstring} is defined by the CSV data set element.
> However, there is another variable, ${logID} that is defined in a UDV
> element. The actual data in the csv file must include the ${logID}
> references. So its something like
>
> UDV:
> ${logid}=123
> CSV Data set
> ${xmlstring} read from strings.csv
> Xml-rpc request
> data field = ${xmlstring}
>
> But in strings.csv there will be something like
> <tag1>bob</tag1><tag2>log item="${logid}"</tag2>
>
> I want to ensure the ${logid} in the csv file actually gets substituted
> out for the variable's value when it gets used by the xml-rpc request.
Just make sure logid is defined.
> Do I need to use a function at all?
No.
>
> > 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#Deb
> ug_Sampler may be useful here.
>
>
> Trust me, I've been using it :) It helps to see what the variable
> results in, but hasn't helped me figure out why the variable was that
> (with my UDV problem for instance).
>
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