I do the first bit for my application load test, not sure what you're asking in the second point. This is how to do what I think you're asking for in your first question:
When a user clicks the "create entity" button in our app, the result page displays something along the lines of "entity created with id: X". The ID displayed on the create entity result page is actually a business ID, not the surrogate key, but by a quirk of our system, that's exactly what we need to pass as the identifying information to the other pages in our system (don't ask). We extract the entity id with a regex extractor with approximately the following settings: Name: entity ID extractor Reference name: UV.entity.id Regular expression: (entity created with id: )([0-9]+) Template: $2$ Match No.: 1 "UV.entity.id" is the name of the variable that JMeter will stick the extracted id into (the UV prefix is part of our JMeter variable naming standard, supposed to stand for UserVariable). Then for example, when we want to navigate to the view page for that entity, we create a HTTP sampler with the path field looking something like "<app context>/jsp/EntityView.jsp?entity_key=${UV.entity.id}" Note that if the result page doesn't display the key you need in order to navigate to the view page (and why should it?), then you'll have to alter your app to stick it in a HTML comment or something. Cheers, Shorn. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2003 4:24 PM > To: JMeter Users List > Subject: Dynamic HTTP parameters > > > > Hi, > > is it possible to create a web test plan with "dynamic" > parameters, as in > > - web application where you can manage records. First request goes to > "addRecord.jsp", which creates a new record. JMeter reads > RECORD_ID from > response. Next it calls "deleteRecord.jsp" with the obtained RECORD_ID > > - RECORD_ID is selected randomly, request is made to > "someAction.jsp" with > the obtained RECORD_ID? > > If this can be done, what are the effects on test performance? > > - - - > Janne Mattila > Järjestelmäsuunnittelija > > Key Partners Oy > Polttimonkatu 4, 33210 Tampere > Puh. + 358 20 551 6188 > Gsm + 358 40 849 1074 > Fax + 358 20 551 6200 > www.keypartners.fi > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ************************************************************************ The information in this e-mail together with any attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any form of review, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this e-mail message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you are asked to inform the sender as quickly as possible and delete this message and any copies of this message from your computer and/or your computer system network. ************************************************************************ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]