On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:19 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 November 2017 at 19:20, Philippe Mouawad > <philippe.moua...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > Tidy option AFAIK used to allow using XPath Extractor for HTML. > > I don't think it's needed anymore since we have CSS/JQuery extractor > which > > is: > > - Up to date > > - Powerful > > - Performing much better than XPath > > > > I propose to drop tidy options from XPath. > > I even propose to think about dropping jtidy library which would mean : > > > > - Either Dropping AnchorModifier or finding a better alternative to > > jtidy to it if it's useful > > > > IMO, we should drop it, as it doesn't work with Distributed testing as > it > > requires keeping the previous SampleResult response Data to be able to > work > > which Stripping mode clears. > > Are you sure about that? > Yes, it is even documented in a note. To be clear, PreProcessor of Sampler N+1 requires access to Sample Result of Sampler N which would be stripped in distributed mode. It affects Link Parser and Re-writing Modifier: - http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#HTML_Link_Parser - http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_URL_Re-writing_Modifier
Surely that would break all PostProcessors that process response data? > No, because the problem is due to access to N-1 sampler's response data, not current N Sampler's response data > > If it is the case, then that is a bug that needs to be fixed. > > > -- > > Cordialement. > > Philippe Mouawad. > -- Cordialement. Philippe Mouawad.
