I assume that you are trying to spread the load as equally as possible?
Could you would some magic with the Beanshell Server?
Perhaps you can block every test in a setup Thread group or a
Once-Only Controller until your test distribution is done and then
open the gates?
Good luck,
Anthony
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Oliver Lloyd <oliver_ll...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> No really, sadly this is the problem statement.
>
> So, what I'm working on is a program that takes the jmeter jmx file and farms
> it out over a bunch of machines. Before it does this it parses the jmx to get
> things like thread counts and references to csv files - you need these to
> make the process useful.
>
> It's all very easy if I could be sure that the values will always be absolute
> but the use case is such that this is simply not the case - so I'm looking
> for the best approach to handle it. As far as I can see, the best way to find
> out what ${myVar} equals is to fire up JMeter and see what it get's set to
> but then I really don't want to do that, it's messy and potentially not even
> possible. Is there an alternative?
>
>
> On 16 Sep 2012, at 22:33, Deepak Shetty wrote:
>
>>> I want to take this jmx xml file and parse it to read the location of the
>> file so I can do stuff with it (before I actually run the >test)
>> I cant help but feel that this is a proposed solution to a problem rather
>> than the problem itself.
>> Literally you are asking the equivalent of I have a java class , can i
>> figure out the value of a variable without running the java class. In which
>> case the answer is no. However a variable is just initial state + algorithm
>> so you can always figure out its value it would have if you are willing to
>> duplicate the steps.(or in your case , how does JMeter determine
>> ${myTestRoot}) or you can specify your original problem statement and see
>> if anyone has a different suggestion.
>>
>> regards
>> deepak
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Oliver Lloyd
>> <oliver_ll...@hotmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to resolve the value of a jmeter variable from an external
>>> program?
>>>
>>> So, if I have a jmx that has, for example, a CSV Config control that has a
>>> literal path of:
>>>
>>> ${myTestRoot}/some/other/dir/myfile.csv
>>>
>>> Using an external program, I want to take this jmx xml file and parse it
>>> to read the location of the file so I can do stuff with it (before I
>>> actually run the test). But because there is a variable in the literal
>>> value of the file path I obviously cannot.
>>>
>>> What I would like to do is work out a way (probably via some form of
>>> temporary plugin) to start the jmeter process in such a way that the
>>> variable is instantiated and I am able to get its value, but without
>>> actually starting the test.
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