Dear users,
Previously I have been asking about this topic, but I can't quite wrap my head
around it, I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but maybe it helps to be
very specific.
For my testscript I need to 'calculate' some parameter values that are to be
sent to the application I'm testing (ie: I'm creating HTTP Requests
http://host?par1=val1&par2=val2 etc, and the val1 and val2 need to be
calculated based on a set of arguments)
From what I get from the manuals, it should be possible to script the
calculating functions in BeanShell in a single file, say 'myscripts.bsh', read
these functions into JMeter once at the start of the script, and call these
functions with their appropriate arguments when creating a HTTP Request:
* is this indeed a possible route to take? Or is there another way that is
preferred?
* if yes: how to ensure that I read the BeanShell script only once at startup?
In other words: which component to add as a child of which component in the
testplan? Or maybe is it better to add a User Defined Variable to the test
plain with the value of __BeanShell(source('myscripts.bsh'))?
* Once loaded: how to access a specific function from that file and how to pass
arguments to that function? I have seen examples that define a variable
BSSCRIPT as ${__BeanShell(source('myscripts.bsh'))} and then call this script
as ${BSSCRIPT}. However, that would run the whole script, whereas I wish to
call a specific function _in_ that script, and on top of that, to pass
variables to that function
To say the same in other words: in sect 19.5.13 on
http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/functions.html there is a reference to the
BeanShellFunction.bshrc, but it is not explained how to call for instance the
getprop() function that is defined there, and how to pass specific values to
that function. I'm looking for just how to achieve that, with the addition that
I'd like my testscript to explicitly read my BeanShell script file (once) at
the start of the test instead of configuring it as beanshell.function.init.
Hopefully I've been precize enough for people to point out what probably is
quite obvious :P
Yours sincerely,
Jakob van Bethlehem
