On 20 December 2010 15:17, luke tarr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I’m after a bit of help with Jmeter.
> I have a time parameter that is sent with a request which effectively looks
> like this
> TIME=2010-12-07T09:00:00
> I have used the time function within the parameter so that the year, month,
> date and time(HH) are all sourced from the system clock and are therefore
> always up-to-date; the parameter that is now passed is shown below.
> TIME=${__time(yyyy)}-{__time(MM)}-${__time(dd)}T${__time(HH)}:00:00
Why don't you use:
TIME=${__time(yyyy-MM-ddTHH00:00)}
to create the time?
> This works fine but I would like to limit when the HTTP request is used
> depending upon the minutes past the hour; there is a cycle of four differing
> images that are available, changing every 15 minutes e.g. T09:00:00 is image
> 1, T09:15:00 is image 2 etc).
> My initial thought was to use either an IF of WHILE controller that would
> tell the HTTP request to only function if the actual minutes are within a
> given range (there would be a HTTP request set for each 15 minute window and
> each would have a controller) but I can’t figure it out.
> So, for the first 15 minute window I went along the lines of
> ‘${__time(mm)}<15’ for IF and ‘${__javaScript(${__time(mm)}<15)}’ for WHILE
> to see if the request could be limited to a certain part of the hour (it
> would poll every minute up to the point in time when the next 15min period
> starts). The instance would be left running for fairly long durations of
> time to see that the images (content changed/were available in a timely
> fashion).
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I would probably use the switch controller, and convert the time into
0-3 quarters.
> Many thanks,
>
> Luke
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