On 06/05/2009, Ed Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm confused as to what you mean by "Just pass the string to a function that
> returns it's length".
>
> The only functions I'm aware of in jmeter are the ones documented in section
> 19 of the manual:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/functions.html
>
> Is there a way to create my own? Everything I see in the doc indicates built
> in functions, but no indication of how to create a custom one.
>
> I started by trying to use the __javaScript() function but abandoned it
> because I was unable to pass in my string + user variables and execute the
> length method on it.
That's what I meant.
What did you try?
__javaScript("This is a string".length)
works for me.
So does
__javaScript("Started at ${START.HMS}".length)
> Now I'm experimenting with the BeanShell Preprocessor for the first time,
> which looks promising, but seems like there should be an easier way to
> simply calculate a string with embedded user variables.
>
See above.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:13 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> > On 29/04/2009, Ed Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Is there a way to calculate the length of some string, including any
> > > embedded variables?
> >
> > Why do you need to do this?
> >
> > > It would have to first expand the variables and then do the
> > calculation...
> >
> > Just pass the string to a function that returns its length; variables
> > are resolved before the function is called.
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