The answer is to use ctx.getVariables().get("_somelist") rather than
vars.get("_somelist") (and similarly for put). I guess this is something
missing from the documentation!
Paul.
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Paul Loy <ketera...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have the following in JMeter
>
> |
> |-- HTTP Request Sampler (search)
> | |
> | --- RegEx PostProcessors (x15)
> |
> |-- ForEach
> | |
> | --- HTTP Request Sampler (page)
> | |
> | |-- RegEx PostProcessor (extracts $_something)
> | |
> | --- BeanShell PostProcessor
> |
> |-- HTTP Request Sampler (using $_somelist)
>
> The first HTTP request performs a search that gets a list of 10 items. I
> then (for the sake of doing it simply) have 15 RegEx PostProcessors to
> extract each link from the results. For each of those links I then extract
> some other information via another HTTP Request. The idea is then to create
> a list of some of these items that I use in the final HTTP Request. My
> BeanShell PostProcessor should do this. Here is the code I have in there:
>
> String thing = (String) vars.get("_something");
> Object list_obj = vars.get("_somelist");
> String list = null;
>
> if (list_obj == null) {
> log.info("new list");
> list = thing;
> }
> else {
> log.info("concat list");
> java.util.Random random = new
> java.util.Random(System.currentTimeMillis());
>
> int rand = random.nextInt(100);
>
> if (rand < 40) {
> list = (String) list_obj;
> list += "%2C" + thing;
> }
> }
>
> vars.put("_somelist", list);
>
> When I run this, I get the following Logging:
>
> 2010/10/06 11:46:58 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *new list*
> 2010/10/06 11:46:58 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *concat list
> *
>
> 2010/10/06 11:46:58 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *new list*
> 2010/10/06 11:46:58 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement:* concat list
> *
>
> 2010/10/06 11:46:58 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *new list*
> 2010/10/06 11:46:58 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *concat list
> *
>
> 2010/10/06 11:46:58 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *new list*
> 2010/10/06 11:46:59 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *concat list
> *
>
> 2010/10/06 11:46:59 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *new list*
> 2010/10/06 11:46:59 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *concat list
> *
> 2010/10/06 11:46:59 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *concat list
> *
> 2010/10/06 11:46:59 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *concat list
> *
>
> 2010/10/06 11:46:59 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *new list*
> 2010/10/06 11:46:59 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *concat list
> *
>
> 2010/10/06 11:46:59 INFO - jmeter.util.BeanShellTestElement: *new list*
>
> It does indeed loop through 15 times, but seemingly arbitrarily it thinks
> that var _somelist is null and so starts a new list.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul.
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------
> Paul Loy
> p...@keteracel.com
> http://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulloy
>
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Paul Loy
p...@keteracel.com
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulloy
