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Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 11:06:17 +0200
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Subject: Create Macro Feature was Post-Sampler Timers
From: Philippe Mouawad <philippe.mouawad@gmail.com>
To: "dev@jmeter.apache.org" <dev@jmeter.apache.org>
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The idea of a marker for file looks fine to me to handle the use case.
@Vladimir is it the case for you ?
I don't see by the way how a "macro" could answer this , could you give
more details on what you think.

Feel free to create an enhancement request and possibly. provide a patch
implementing it.

Thanks for your ideas and contributions.

Regards
On Thursday, May 7, 2015, sebb <sebbaz@gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sebbaz@gmail.com');>> wrote:

> On 7 May 2015 at 01:09, Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov.vladimir@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>As far as I am aware, there has been little or no demand for this on
> > the user lists.
> >
> > How do you handle usability issues?
> > Do you suggest all usability issues are out of scope of JMeter?
>
> No, of course not.
>
> But developer time is not infinite, so one must consider how useful
> the change is likely to be.
>
> Adding bells and whistles for every single possible scenario just
> results in a bloated app that is hard to maintain and use.
>
> > I think users are just not aware of the possibility of better life,
> > thus you do not see requests
>
> Then there would be no enhancement requests.
>
> > "skip rows in CSV file" is a pure usability issue. It has manual yet
> > painful WA. It has even automatic WA (e.g. some loops in jmx plan).
> > However, it is just an additional pain for newcomers.
>
> It's only a usabiity issue if people actually need to do it.
>
> >>if selected, then check if the marker file
> >>is present, and if so skip that many rows.
> >
> > I do not follow you. Initially you said existing CSV Data Set should
> > not be extended: "Do you think JMeter core should handle the case --
> > no".
> > Now you suggest improving it.
>
> I still think it is somewhat out of scope for JMeter.
>
> But IF it is adopted, then I don't think it makes sense to do so as a
> macro function.
>
> >>Note that the StringFromFile function has a feature which allows the
> >>use of multiple input files that can be used in sequence
> >
> > I do not see how it is useful in current context.
>
> It's an alternative approach.
>
> You can run a test that uses files in sequence. At the end of the
> test, restart the next test starting with the first unused file.
> We used this at work for long running tests (48+ hrs) that could only
> use each entry in a file once.
> We prepared lots of randomised files, and set each test to run with a
> suitable subset.
>
> > When I said "5-10 input files" I meant "5-10 thread groups with each
> > having its own input file".
>
> That is a separate issue.
>
> > Vladimir
>


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Cordialement.
Philippe Mouawad.

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