And how about Eclipse support ? Can we have auto completion ? or code highlighting ?
All your arguments look convincing , I suggest ypu raise the subject on dev list if you feel like contributing after that ? I'll be happy to help a bit. Regards On Wednesday, January 20, 2016, Vladimir Sitnikov < sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >I'm afraid it would take you a long while to do that in "groovy" > > Just to be realistic: MPS does not provide a debugger for JMeter > scripts "for free". > However, MPS provides reasonable APIs, so one can plug its own notion > of breakpoint/watch variable/evaluate expression. > > Mbeddr team managed to integrate that with gdb, so they debug C code. > The base language for MPS is java, so integrating java would be a lot > easier. > > groovy/or whatever programming DSL might be suitable for powerful > users (the ones who know what they are doing). > MPS might be good for non-programmers as it does not provide user a > way to type free-text. > All that you type is accepted only if the particular element was designed. > > E.g. my prototype defined "http sampler", thus when I type "http > sampler", MPS recognizes it because "http sampler" is valid in given > context. > For instance, it does not recognize "http sampler" under "http > sampler". Nor it lists that in the autocomplete menu. > > I expect that should be easier for newbies than "free text programming". > > Vladimir > -- Cordialement. Philippe Mouawad.
