On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:41:01 -0500
"Guy Ferraiolo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Folks
>
> I've developed some additional functionality for flood: random text
> substitution in the URL.
> I think this is a very useful addition and I'd like to have it become
> part of flood.
Great. Flood was missing such a feature. A friend of mine recently picked up
another testing package just because of this.
> The way it works is that your URL contains a string like '${subst_var}'.
> On each generation of a URL, that entire string is replaced by a line
> randomly chosen from the so-called substitution file. The substitution
> file is paired with the substition variable (in this case subst_var) vis
> a subst_list xml construct in the flood config file. An arbitrary
> number of variable - file pairings can be defined in the config file.
>
> You need 3 things to get this to work:
>
> 1. You must use a 'requesttemplate' to hold your URL
> 2. You must supply a 'subst_list' xml construct in your flood
> config file.
> 3. You must supply a 'substitution file' containing the lines that
> will be randomly substituted.
>
> I have code and a sample configuration file that implements this.
>
> How can I submit this?
Please create an unified diff, like so:
diff -urN flood-original/ flood-modified/ > substitution.patch
...and submit resulting file (attaching it as text/plain) to this list. You
schould also post that sample configuration. I would like to see it and since
flood manual is lagging a bit behind source tree (mea culpa), it would also
serve as documentation for that particular feature.
regards,
--
Jacek Prucia
