On 9 October 2015 at 00:15, David Luu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Then is there a property/variable to query within JMeter to determine the
> directory where the server instance was launched? And will/can this be

You should know where it was launched ...

> applicable to JMeter client/GUI launches vs server launch or will it be
> different. Trying to use one codebase for path referencing that will work
> in local and distributed mode without absolute paths.

Relative paths mean that the actual path should be irrelevant.

You just need to ensure that the data files are copied to a directory
which has the expected relationship to the launch directory.

> I'm currently using this method to get JMeter script path:
>
> org.apache.jmeter.services.FileServer.getFileServer().getBaseDir();

Does that not work?

If not, just fetch the current working directory using standard Java API.

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 3:34 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 8 October 2015 at 22:45, David Luu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > For the distributed testing approach with remote JMeter servers, the test
>> > plan is sent to the remote servers from the client controller but not the
>> > data files.
>> >
>> > But I tend to use paths relative to the JMeter test plan for data files,
>> so
>> > I was wondering, where the test plan is sent/stored to on the remote
>> server
>> > by default so that I can set up the matching file structure w/o having to
>> > resort to specific absolute paths just to be able to reference the data
>> > files in test plan in distributed testing mode.
>> >
>> > Is that path documented somewhere? I may have overlooked it.
>>
>> It's not stored on the remote system; it is held in memory only.
>> [The plan is also not identical to the source; the listener classes
>> are adjusted to send the results back to the JMeter client]
>>
>> So files will need to be accessed relative to the directory from which
>> the server instance is launched.
>>
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