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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:03:43 +0200
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Subject: Re: How to control variable substitution in JMeter?
From: Shmuel Krakower <shmulikk@gmail.com>
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Why making this complex? Just have a dedicated UDV element for such
correlation/replacement, while during recordings, disable the others you
don't wanna use.

Shmuel Krakower.
www.Beatsoo.org - re-use your jmeter scripts for application performance
monitoring from worldwide locations for free.


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Robin D. Wilson <rwilson2@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've noticed this too. Sounds like a feature request.
>
> Basically, some way to designate which variables can be used for
> substitution
> when using the recording controller. Perhaps just a list.
>
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> Robin D. Wilson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith.Cassell@engilitycorp.com [mailto:
> Keith.Cassell@engilitycorp.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:09 AM
> To: user@jmeter.apache.org
> Subject: How to control variable substitution in JMeter?
>
> I have some user defined variables:
>
> SERVER_NAME          myhost.com
> THE_HTTP_PROTOCOL    HTTP
> USER_COUNT           1
> LOOP_COUNT           2
>
> Then, I use a Recording Controller to capture my browser actions.
> Unfortunately,
> JMeter does more variable substitution than I'd like it to. For example, it
> substitutes ${LOOP_COUNT} into a web site name that contains "2", e.g.,
> "/host${LOOP_COUNT}/somePage". My favorite example of over-zealous variable
> substitution is my ${THE_${THE_HTTP_PROTOCOL}_PROTOCOL} Header Manager.
>
> Is it possible to make the recording more selective about what variables
> can be
> used for substitution? For example, of the variables I've listed, I'd
> really
> only like SERVER_NAME to be substituted in.
>
> I'm using JMeter 2.11.
>
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