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Andy Kappen

While Controller help!

I have been trying to use the "While Controller" in JMeter 2.0.3 with
no luck. This could be due
to two things: user error (since I'm not sure my Condition is in the
correct form), or the While
Controller is a little too alpha not work as advertised.

Inside the While Controller, I grab a page using "HTTP Request
Sampler" and use "Regular
Expression Extractor" to populate a variable called "encodedState". I
would like the While
Controller to loop until encodedState equals the string "ENCODED".

I have tried a variety of conditions on the While Controller with no
luck. What should the
condition look like? Javascript? Pure java? BeanShell? I tried
several guesses:
${encodedState} != "ENCODED"
${__javaScript(${encodedState}!="ENCODED")}
!(${encodedState}.equals("ENCODED"))
. . . you get the idea.

If the While Controller is just too alpha to handle the Condition
correctly, is there some other
way to get this type of behavior?

Cheers,
AK

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sebb-2-2

Re: While Controller help!

On 6/1/05, Andy Kappen <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I have been trying to use the "While Controller" in JMeter 2.0.3 with
> no luck. This could be due
> to two things: user error (since I'm not sure my Condition is in the
> correct form), or the While
> Controller is a little too alpha not work as advertised.
>
> Inside the While Controller, I grab a page using "HTTP Request
> Sampler" and use "Regular
> Expression Extractor" to populate a variable called "encodedState". I
> would like the While
> Controller to loop until encodedState equals the string "ENCODED".

Another way to do this would be to use the LAST condition with a
suitable Response Assertion to flag the Sampler as failed.

> I have tried a variety of conditions on the While Controller with no
> luck. What should the
> condition look like? Javascript? Pure java? BeanShell? I tried

This is documented here:
http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#While_Controller

> several guesses:

Assume encodedState = ENCODED.

> ${encodedState} != "ENCODED"

This is interpreted as the string:

ENCODED != "ENCODED"

which is not the same as FALSE or false.

> ${__javaScript(${encodedState}!="ENCODED")}

Almost correct, this is interpreted as the string:

ENCODED != "ENCODED"

which is not valid JavaScript
[well, unless ENCODED is a JavaScript variable]

${__javaScript("${encodedState}"!="ENCODED")}

should work, i.e. quote the string.

> !(${encodedState}.equals("ENCODED"))

This is interpreted as the string

!(ENCODED.equals("ENCODED"))

which is not false or FALSE

Try

${__BeanShell(!"${encodedState}".equals("ENCODED"))

S.

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Andy Kappen

Re: While Controller help!

Adding a Response Assertion and using a while condition of LAST worked great.

On the other hand, I have tried both the
${__javaScript("${encodedState}"!="ENCODED")} and the
${__BeanShell(!"${encodedState}".equals("ENCODED")) forms suggested,
and the While Controller still just enters an infinite loop. I read a
comment on another forum somewhere that implied the While Controller
does not re-evaluate the condition during each loop, but there was no
mention of the jmeter version effected. Is this apparently broken
behavior a side effect of the 'alpha' nature of the while controller?
Should I file a bug on this?

Cheers,
AK

On 6/1/05, sebb <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On 6/1/05, Andy Kappen <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I have been trying to use the "While Controller" in JMeter 2.0.3 with
> > no luck. This could be due
> > to two things: user error (since I'm not sure my Condition is in the
> > correct form), or the While
> > Controller is a little too alpha not work as advertised.
> >
> > Inside the While Controller, I grab a page using "HTTP Request
> > Sampler" and use "Regular
> > Expression Extractor" to populate a variable called "encodedState". I
> > would like the While
> > Controller to loop until encodedState equals the string "ENCODED".
>
> Another way to do this would be to use the LAST condition with a
> suitable Response Assertion to flag the Sampler as failed.
>
> > I have tried a variety of conditions on the While Controller with no
> > luck. What should the
> > condition look like? Javascript? Pure java? BeanShell? I tried
>
> This is documented here:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#While_Controller
>
> > several guesses:
>
> Assume encodedState = ENCODED.
>
> > ${encodedState} != "ENCODED"
>
> This is interpreted as the string:
>
> ENCODED != "ENCODED"
>
> which is not the same as FALSE or false.
>
> > ${__javaScript(${encodedState}!="ENCODED")}
>
> Almost correct, this is interpreted as the string:
>
> ENCODED != "ENCODED"
>
> which is not valid JavaScript
> [well, unless ENCODED is a JavaScript variable]
>
> ${__javaScript("${encodedState}"!="ENCODED")}
>
> should work, i.e. quote the string.
>
> > !(${encodedState}.equals("ENCODED"))
>
> This is interpreted as the string
>
> !(ENCODED.equals("ENCODED"))
>
> which is not false or FALSE
>
> Try
>
> ${__BeanShell(!"${encodedState}".equals("ENCODED"))
>
> S.
>

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