On 01/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a little problem doing a basic proof of concept on reading in a
> CSV file that comprises one column of policy numbers and does a HTTP
> Request Sampler based on this :
>
> 1234567
> 2365456
> 1653224
>
> I want a ForEach controller to take each of these and to exectute a simple
> HTTP Request sampler, appending each item to a requested URL, say :
> www.google.com?${item}
>
> In the CSV Data Set Config, I have my file name which is picked up
> successfully, I define a variable name "policy" with no delimiter as it's
> only 1 column.
>
> In my ForEach controller, I define the input variable prefix to be "policy"
> and the output variable name as "policyRef".
> I then have a HTTP Request Sampler that defines the path as
> "/index.com?${policyRef}".
>
> Looking thru the debug log, I see it reads the file, but has a problem with
> the "policyRefX" where X is 1, looking for the first item, snippets of log
> are :
>
> 2005/12/01 16:24:05 DEBUG - jmeter.testbeans.TestBeanHelper: Setting
> filename=csvtest.txt
> 2005/12/01 16:24:05 DEBUG - jmeter.testbeans.TestBeanHelper: Setting
> variableNames=policy
> 2005/12/01 16:24:05 DEBUG - jmeter.testbeans.TestBeanHelper: Setting
> delimiter=
> 2005/12/01 16:24:05 INFO - jmeter.threads.JMeterThread: Thread Thread
> Group 1-1 started
> 2005/12/01 16:24:05 DEBUG - jmeter.control.GenericController: Calling next
> on: org.apache.jmeter.control.LoopController
> 2005/12/01 16:24:05 DEBUG - jmeter.control.ForeachController: No entries
> found - null first entry: policyRef1
>
> I've gone thru doccos and tried lots of tests, but I can't work out how to
> get the interaction right between the CSV Data Set Config output variable
> and the ForEach controller, it's probably something to do with the "1"
> appended to the ForeachController and a misconfiguration in the way I'm
> trying to reference the variable name "policy" set up by the CSV Data Set.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
The ForEach Controller is intended for use with the RE Post-Processor,
and requires a SET of variables.
http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#ForEach_Controller
In your case it will be looking for variables called:
policy_n or policyn (if the _ is omitted).
==
What are you actually trying to do?
S.
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