Sending muliple occurrences of id to a request in jmeter - loops

From a soap XML response I need to get all the occurrences of an id (This part already done using Match No being set to -1 in Regex extractor).
And then I need to send these ids to a subsequent request. That is, the request needs to be fired as many times as of the total number of occurrences of the id, we can call it as ID_matchNr. (This is the total occurrences I got from the Regex extractor).
I used a while loop and a counter. The while loop works until the ID_matchNr, but it doesn't stop there, that while loop is infinite. How to fix this?
My counter's reference name is count and the field name in my request is ${__V(ID_${count})}. And while loop's condition is ${count}<=${ID_matchNr}. I also tried using a beanshell to save the ID_matchNr to another variable and then use it in while condition instead of directly using ID_matchNr. Still running infinitely.

Have you considered using ForEach Controller?
Given you have JMeter Variables in form of:
ID_1=foo
ID_2=bar
ID_3=baz
ID_matchNr=3
Add ForEach Controller to your Test Plan and configure it like:
And put the "subsequent" sampler as a child of the ForEach Controller and refer the generated subsequent ID value as ${CURRENT_ID} where required
More information on the concept with the real-life example: Using Regular Expressions in JMeter

Related

How do I select whether the routine continues based on the participant's response?

I want to create an experiment in PsychoPy Builder that conditionally shows a second routine to participants based on their keyboard response.
In the task, I have a loop that first goes through a routine where participants have three options to respond ('left','right','down') and only if they select 'left', regardless of the correct answer, should they see a second routine that asks a follow-up question to respond to. The loop should then restart with routine 1 each time.
I've tried using bits of code in the "begin experiment" section as such:
if response.key=='left':
continueRoutine=True
elif response.key!='left':
continueRoutine=False
But here I get an error saying response.key is not defined.
Assuming your keyboard component is actually called response, the attribute you are looking for is called response.keys. It is pluralised as it returns a list rather than a single value. This is because it is capable of storing multiple keypresses. Even if you only specify a single response, it will still be returned as a list containing just that single response (e.g. ['left'] rather than 'left'). So you either need to extract just one element from that list (e.g. response.keys[0]) and test against that, or use a construction like if 'left' in response.keys to check inside the list.
Secondly, you don't need to have a check that assigns True to continueRoutine, as it defaults to being True at the beginning of a routine. So it is only setting it to False that results in any action. So you could simply do something like this:
if not 'left' in response.keys:
continueRoutine = False
Lastly, for PsychoPy-specific questions, you might get better support via the dedicated forum at https://discourse.psychopy.org as it allows for more to-and-fro discussion than the single question/answer structure here at SO.

Start next Loop Controller iteration

I would like to configure something similar to Action to be taken after a Sampler error in Thread Group but at Loop Controller level.
For example, if one Sampler fails, instead of Start Next Thread Loop, I would like to Start Next Loop Controller Loop, I assume this would be achievable using groovy + JMeter properties, but I cannot find the right way to do it.
Try Until Controller from this guy -- http://www.testautomationguru.com/jmeter-until-controller/.
This should help.
You can do this By using While Loop instead of Loop Controller Use While Controller
Set Action to be taken on sampler error to continue on thread group.
Initialize a counter and set its value to 1 using a beanshell sampler , Keep this sampler before while loop begins
Add the following code
vars.put("counter","1");
Add A while Loop and keep the set of samplers you want to run in loop.
Add the following condition to while loop
${__javaScript(parseInt(${counter})<=15,)}
here 15 represents the number of loops (Loop Count)
Add A beanshell post processor to your first sampler in while loop
and add the following code (To increment the counter value)
int counter = Integer.parseInt(vars.get("counter")) +1;
vars.put("counter",Integer.toString(counter));
Next samplers in While loop embed with an if condition
${JMeterThread.last_sample_ok}
As shown below You have to do this for each sampler as we may not know where the error occurs.
In My case i wanted to run the loop 15 times irrespective of errors , You can see its executed 15 times even after getting errors
For more information on While controller Follow this link..
Please let me know if it helps ..
The easiest way is using If Controller.
Add If Controller after sampler on failure of which you want to restart the loop
Put all requests which are "below" the If Controller to be children of the If Controller
Use ${JMeterThread.last_sample_ok} as the If Controller condition
That's it, now If Controller's children will be executed only if previous sampler is successful, otherwise it will be next Loop Controller iteration.
As you can see from the above demo Some Other Sampler was executed only when Some Sampler was successful.

Is Angular's foreach loop over an object asynchronous?

I read somewhere in the past that angular.foreach is asynchronous unlike looping over arrays which is synchronous. For a long time I was taking into account this and doing the necessary to avoid executing the code which comes after the loop before it's finishes all its iterations (by wrapping the angular.foreach inside an anonymous JavaScript function which calls a callback which will be executed once the loop finishes all iterations).
(function(callback){
angular.foreach(..)
callback();
})(callback)
But I had a conversation with a collegue who didn't agree that angular.foreach is asynchronous and I also couldn't find that information again which makes me confused now.
no. Take a look at the docs
Furthermore your code wouldn't work if foreach would be asynchronous.
If foreach would be async, the callback would be called immediately after calling foreach and foreach would be put onto the eventqueue which would execute it some time in the future.
Javascripts concurrency model does not have threads but instead uses an eventloop. This means every async operation is pushed onto the eventqueue and executed later.
Have a look into the MDN
There may be a scenario where you want to make code behave asynchronously.
I had a scenario where I used local storage to store an ad-hoc user selected collection of jobs that I wanted to perform the same operation on.
I had a web service call to convert a list of job names into a returned a collection of job objects. I initially tried using a
foreach loop inside the subscribe pf the service layer, that operated on the results.
Then I tried calling another method within the foreach loop that as it performed the operations removed the job name from local storage when the operation posted to the web service correctly.
The problem was on the second iteration I read the collection of names from local storage again - before the set to remove had completed.
There was a lot of manipulation of the job and object properties to create the parameters passed on the function call, so I ended up refactoring the code, creating a value object interface and stored the information in a value object array for the whole job collection I had returned. I included the index of the job too in the value object.
I introduced a BehaviourSubject property to the class.
During the restructuring, I just added an entry to the value object array collection within the forEach loop instead. At the end of the loop. I sent next(0) to the BehaviourSubject to start the ball rolling.
Each time a job name was removed from local storage, I converted service to return a Promise.
Then in the code after the service was called I put this code in the then part, behaviour subject.next(index from value object +1)
In the initialisation I set the behaviour subject up with a -1 value..
Then in the subscription to the BehaviourSubject class I ignored -1,
And when the index +1 was > length of value object collection called completion routine - which bounce app back to prior page.
When the index was between 0 and 1 less than collection size, I just called the method that had originally been in the forEach loop with the value object entry with the value object match the index of the behaviour subject.
By doing this I had converted the behaviour of the forEach into something asynchronous.

JMeter - loop controller with variable loop count

I am using JMeter and I want to define one loop controller. In this loop I want to define the loop count with a Jmeter variable. Is this posible?
Thanks a lot
I know is very late to help you, but it can help the others.
One good way to do this is to define a counter inside the loop controller.
Example, if you want a loop with 20 iterations, you put 20 in the loop controller and in the counter you put from 0 - 19. In the counter you can also define an increment. The output variable is named in the Reference Name field.
Yes, it's possible.
Define your user variable using the User Defined Variables component, or use the CSV component.
Then, in the Loop Controller, define loop count to: ${nameOfVar}
Since version 4.0 of JMeter, there is an easier way:
https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#Loop_Controller
JMeter will expose the looping index as a variable named
__jm__Name of your element__idx
So for example, if your Loop Controller is named LC, then you can access the looping index through ${__jm__LC__idx}. Index starts at 0
If you're looking to learn jmeter correctly, this book will help you.
You can use the following inside the "Loop Count" field:
${myVar}
e.g. for a random count:
${__groovy(java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextLong(128L),)}
You can access the current loop index (starts at 0) via ${__jm__Loop Controller__idx} where Loop Controller is the name of your loop.

Jmeter how to loop through a list of different properties in a single thread group or controller?

How to do a basic loop through different properties for a fixed set of controllers? Loop controller runs a set group a certain number of times, does not use properties though.
I can do modules, and set the values to properties for multi thread group usage, but how to pass the next iteration of the property, and run the loop again?
property x
do module (points to controllers)
next property
Say I have a list of 44 characters, and I want to loop through those characters in a ${name} while I'm doing a test. I'd very much not like to build 44 sets of controllers for one character change.
Please Note I cannot add extra files to my computer. It has to work via the stock available controllers. I'm using Jmeter 2.4 r961953
Thanks
I will elaborate slightly more about the BeanShell method. My assumption is that you'd like to do it within one User Thread, if so my proposal would be:
Create a Loop Controller.
Logic Controller->Loop Controller
Inside Loop Controller add following entries:
Config Element -> Counter
Preprocessors -> BeanShell preprocessor
Sampler -> yourSampler
The Counter element will be used as an index that will be used to choose valid value from our array, hence we need to specify a Reference Name for the Counter - let's say that it will be loopCounter.
Now we have to switch to BeanShell preprocessor and define the array of values. A great thing is that we have vars variable available and it gives us CRUD access to variables used in the scenario:
String[] varArray = {"Value1", "Value2"};
idx = Integer.parseInt(vars.get("loopCounter"))-1;
vars.put("myVariable", varArray[idx]);
And for the final step, inside mySampler we can use a variable in a regular JMeter way : ${myVariable}
JMeter API can be very helpfull if you want a more sophisticated solution.
There are a handful of different ways to loop through different values without adding external files:
Use beanshell controller, and write javascript to set your variable
Use a counter to increment by one
Use User Parameters
You can set it up so each loop gets a different value.
Check out the various configuration controllers to find one that works best for you.
EDIT:
I meant user parameters, not user define variables.
User Parameter
You'd need one row per variable with 44 columns. Sorry for the confusion.
User Parameter Structure
test plan
- Thread Group looped 44 times
-- User parameter
-- Request
Beanshell Method
Alternately, you could do an array in javascript in connection with a counter. The Beanshell samplers have access to Jmeter variables and properties, allowing the beanshell sampler to read the counter value. This may be a faster, cleaner way then using User Parameters.
Beanshell structure
test plan
- Thread Group looped 44 times
-- Counter
-- Request
---- Beanshell pre-processor
Beanshell Pseudo code would be
def counter = value of Jmeter Counter
def array = array of values
declare the variable "sampler_value" to be used by sampler
def sampler_value = array # counter
Counter with CharAt function
If you only need to generate characters, you could use the javascript function to utilize the function charAt, using the value from the Counter. Basic structure would be:
test plan
- Thread Group looped 44 times
-- Counter
-- Request
with the request using something like ${__javaScript(charAt(${counter})) as the parameter value. You may have to use JEXL instead of javaScript or evalVar/V/eval inside the charAt function.

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