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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:33:47 -0400
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I would agree with that strategy.  In fact, it's not so different from
what the HTML Link Parser does currently.

-Mike

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 14:14 -0400, Rob Butler wrote:
> If you do implement this, I think it might be easy to do as a
> pre-processor.   That way it can add the params from the context vars
> before the request is sent.
> 
> So a RegEx post-processor would collect the vars, and then the
> pre-processor would plug em into the next request.  I don't *need* this
> now, because my app is only going to have 10 rows max, so I can just build
> it to handle up to 10 rows statically.  Otherwise, I'd build the
> pre-processor now.  I bet it wouldn't be too hard.
> 
> Rob
> 
> > If it's any consolation, I'd be hard put to come up with a more useful
> > single improvement to JMeter right at this moment.  What that means is
> > that, if my current employer ever requires me to do serious work with
> > JMeter, I'll probably implement it. :-)
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 13:45 -0400, Rob Butler wrote:
> >> YES!  Darn..
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> > If I understand you right, you need a foreach construct within the
> >> HTTP
> >> > Sampler's argument list.  That would be a very useful thing, I think,
> >> > but right now, JMeter doesn't do anything like that.
> >> >
> >> > -Mike
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 13:04 -0400, Rob Butler wrote:
> >> >> Yes, I have.  My understanding of the ForEach controller is that it
> >> will
> >> >> execute a separate HTTP Request sample for each entry in a RegEx
> >> list.
> >> >> That will not do what I need.  I need to submit *one* request that
> >> >> contains all the name/value pairs that I collected.  Is there an
> >> >> alternate
> >> >> means of using the ForEach controller to do that?
> >> >>
> >> >> If so, could you explain in detail how to use the ForEach controller
> >> in
> >> >> that manner, because the docs and wiki samples I have read were not
> >> >> clear
> >> >> at all on doing that.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks again!
> >> >> Rob
> >> >>
> >> >> > Have you looked at the ForEach Controller?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#ForEach_Controller
> >> >> >
> >> >> > S.
> >> >> > On 6/15/05, Rob Butler <rbutler@chariotsolutions.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> Hello all,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I am attempting to perf test a web app with jmeter, but I don't
> >> know
> >> >> how
> >> >> >> to solve a particular issue I am running into.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> One particular page in the app can return a dynamic number of rows
> >> of
> >> >> >> data.  The number of rows is dependent upon the individual user's
> >> >> >> information in a DB.  There is no way of knowing ahead of time how
> >> >> many
> >> >> >> rows there are.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> What I would like to do is capture (using regex's) the form data
> >> that
> >> >> is
> >> >> >> returned in the response, and use that as the parameters to the
> >> next
> >> >> >> request.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Using the Regular Expression Extractor I can easily get all the
> >> data
> >> >> and
> >> >> >> field names as a list of capture groups.  The problem is, how do I
> >> >> then
> >> >> >> dynamically build the parameters that will be used in the next
> >> >> request?
> >> >> >> In the HTTP Request sampler I can put a field name, and use a
> >> dynamic
> >> >> >> value, but that won't do what I need.  I need to use dynamic field
> >> >> names
> >> >> >> and dynamic values in the request.  Is this possible?  How do I do
> >> >> it?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Thanks
> >> >> >> Rob
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
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