No really, sadly this is the problem statement.
So, what I'm working on is a program that takes the jmeter jmx file and farms
it out over a bunch of machines. Before it does this it parses the jmx to get
things like thread counts and references to csv files - you need these to make
the process useful.
It's all very easy if I could be sure that the values will always be absolute
but the use case is such that this is simply not the case - so I'm looking for
the best approach to handle it. As far as I can see, the best way to find out
what ${myVar} equals is to fire up JMeter and see what it get's set to but then
I really don't want to do that, it's messy and potentially not even possible.
Is there an alternative?
On 16 Sep 2012, at 22:33, Deepak Shetty wrote:
>> I want to take this jmx xml file and parse it to read the location of the
> file so I can do stuff with it (before I actually run the >test)
> I cant help but feel that this is a proposed solution to a problem rather
> than the problem itself.
> Literally you are asking the equivalent of I have a java class , can i
> figure out the value of a variable without running the java class. In which
> case the answer is no. However a variable is just initial state + algorithm
> so you can always figure out its value it would have if you are willing to
> duplicate the steps.(or in your case , how does JMeter determine
> ${myTestRoot}) or you can specify your original problem statement and see
> if anyone has a different suggestion.
>
> regards
> deepak
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Oliver Lloyd <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to resolve the value of a jmeter variable from an external
>> program?
>>
>> So, if I have a jmx that has, for example, a CSV Config control that has a
>> literal path of:
>>
>> ${myTestRoot}/some/other/dir/myfile.csv
>>
>> Using an external program, I want to take this jmx xml file and parse it
>> to read the location of the file so I can do stuff with it (before I
>> actually run the test). But because there is a variable in the literal
>> value of the file path I obviously cannot.
>>
>> What I would like to do is work out a way (probably via some form of
>> temporary plugin) to start the jmeter process in such a way that the
>> variable is instantiated and I am able to get its value, but without
>> actually starting the test.
>>
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