On 28/11/2008, Hiro Protagonist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am currently stuck with the following: > I have a web application that uses AJAX to display information coming > from a database in portlets (graphical representation). These portlets > each trigger a set of SQL queries in a database, and while the database > is getting the query result, an animated GIF is displayed, and > Javascript causes the browser to poll every 5 seconds or so, until the > 'real' information can be displayed, at which point the polls stop. > This is an isue with JMeter, because as far as JMeter is concerned, the > request that was sent has been answered, and it moves on to the next > request. > However, what I need is essentially a loop that keeps checking what the > contents of the response is, and repeat the http request until the word > 'Sarching' does not appear anymore (meaning in received data to be > displayed in the portlet). > There are a number of different portlets on each page, identified by a > unique string in the previous http response, which is used in the > 'polling request' that is sent back to the server. > I have managed to get this far: > > - set up a regex that extracts the unique ID for each portlet > - set up a for_each loop that goes through all of these IDs and sends > requests > - set up a regex that extracts the response from the polled request > > However, the problem I have is that the while loop, which is nested > inside the for_each loop, never moves on to the second value after the > first response has finished and found the response. > > Here is my test plan: > > > *** (various login and authentication requests) > | > @Regex called 'searching' with default value of 'NOTFINISHED' > | > *Request to move to page containing portlets (regex 'searching') > | > #For Each Controller (iterates all values for request/response above) > \ > \ > #While controller (loop while regex defaults to 'NOTFINISHED') > | > * Request for portlet > \ > @Regex searching looking for 'searching' in response. > If not found, default value is NOTFINISHED > > Everything works, except that I get stuck in the while loop after the > first portlet comes back without 'searching' - effectively having found > the information and it should then set the regex to something else. > What is wrong with this setup ?
Difficult to say, as you don't show what the While Condition is. Try adding Debug Sampler(s) and look at the variables in View Results Tree. > Should I be using a user-defined variable instead of a regex ? I don't understand. The regex output is stored in a variable. > Thanks for your help ! > hiro > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
