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Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 19:56:30 -0800
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Subject: Re: Is there a sampler that can read a tomcat log file?
From: Deepak Shetty <shettyd@gmail.com>
To: JMeter Users List <jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org>
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hi
while you might have a good reason for trying to access the tomcat logs ,
it's still seems to me,to be an overkill. If there is an error the status
code returned shouldn't be 200 (though of course some apps return a 200 code
page with an error message, but there is still some text that differentiates
an error from a normal success. And in most case's you should be able to
assert the text on a page response to validate that you were successful.

An equivalent problem that people run into sometimes is something like place
an order and they want to verify that there is an Order line in the
database. this is more simply solved if you had a page that retrieves orders
and you assert that the order is present there. What i'm trying to indicate
is that there *usually* is some way that the site itself can tell you
whether or not something went wrong. The other reasons against implementing
something tomcat specific is that it wont work for say jetty/weblogic. You
might have to change if you decide to log errors using log4j, you might run
into issues if you cluster tomcat without session pinning. So unless there
is absolutely no other way than reading the logs to determine success/
failure  I wouldn't do what you are planning.

regards
deepak


On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:26 PM, David Levine <david.levine@keas.com> wrote:

> Thanks Deepak, you always have very thoughtful replies.
>
> I'm trying to make sure that a particular functional path through JMeter
> results in particular lines in the tomcat log file.  I also want to make
> sure a particular functional path results in no ERRORS being logged in the
> tomcat log file.  Your idea about writing a service that just returns the
> log lines I want is pretty much what I was thinking of doing, only I was
> thinking of writing a custom sampler to wrap up the service.  It's a lot
> less work to do just what you're suggesting though.
>
> If anyone else would find this web service useful for your JMeter test, let
> me know and I'll post the source somewhere.
>
> David
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Deepak Shetty" <shettyd@gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 5:16 PM
> To: "JMeter Users List" <jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: Is there a sampler that can read a tomcat log file?
>
>
>  Hi
>> what are you trying to assert in the logs? Ideally your response and
>> response code should tell you everything you need to know.
>>
>> You need not necessarily have to extend Jmeter (you could just have a JSP
>> page / code on tomcat ) which returns whatever you want (that is you don't
>> need any Special Log Sampler , any HTTP/Web Service sampler should work
>> just
>> as well).
>>
>> regards
>> deepak
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:06 PM, David Levine <david.levine@keas.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> As part of my functional test, I'd like to assert that a particular line
>>> is
>>> present (or not present) in the tomcat log file for my application. After
>>> looking around at the available samplers and other JMeter tricks, it
>>> doesn't
>>> look like there's a way to do this without writing code and extending
>>> JMeter.  Am I correct or is there a way to do this?
>>>
>>> OK, there's one kind of hacky way I thought of doing this, which is to
>>> write a web service that returns the tomcat log as an XML document, and
>>> then
>>> use an HTTP Request along with an XPath Extractor post processor, and
>>> look
>>> for the log line I'm looking for.  But that means I'd have to send back
>>> the
>>> whole log file every time, which could be huge - so I don't like that.
>>>
>>> So I was thinking of writing a new sampler, called maybe the Tomcat Log
>>> Sampler, that let's you specify a regex query for log lines that you're
>>> looking for, and then returns those as XML, so that you can use the XPath
>>> Extractor to pull the log lines you're looking for into a variable which
>>> you
>>> can then subsequently use.  The Tomcat Log Sampler would really just be a
>>> proxy for a new web service I'd write, that would need to be running on
>>> the
>>> tomcat web server.  The Tomcat Log Web Service would perform the actual
>>> query and return the results.  That way it could scale.
>>>
>>> OK, does this make any sense or am I way off somewhere?
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>
>>
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