Here are some helpful copy & paste JMeter examples.
Get a value (here I will use Spring Web Flow executionId) from URL
Regular Expression
Extractor - Main Sample / URL:
- Reference Name:
executionId (or similar),
- Regular Expression:
[?&]execution=([^&]+),
- Template:
$1$
- Match No:
1,
- Default Value: any (eg.
NOTFOUND),
Get Spring Web Flow executionId from a form
Here's our HTML snippet #1:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head><!-- (...) --></head>
<body class="tundra">
<div id="page" class="container">
<div id="header"><!-- (...) --></div>
<div id="content">
<div id="main" class="span-18 last">
<!-- (...) -->
<div id="bookingForm">
<div class="span-12">
<form id="booking" action="/hotels/booking?execution=e1s1" method="post">
<fieldset>
<legend>Book Hotel</legend>
<!-- (...) -->
<p><input type="text" id="checkinDate" name="checkinDate" /></p>
<p>
<button type="submit" id="proceed" name="_eventId_proceed">Proceed</button>
<button type="submit" name="_eventId_cancel">Cancel</button>
</p>
</div>
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- (...) -->
</div>
</body>
</html>
- With a Regular
Expression Extractor - Main Sample / Body:
- Reference Name:
formExecutionId (or similar),
- Regular Expression:
[?&]execution=([^&"]+)
- Template:
$1$,
- Match No:
1,
- Default Value: any (eg.
NOT_FOUND),
- With an XPath and Regular
Expression (this is a 2-step process):
- STEP 1 - Extract form action with XPath:
- Main sample only,
- Use Tidy, Quiet
- Reference Name:
xpathAction,
- XPath query:
//div[@id='bookingForm']//form[@id='booking']/@action(see HTML above),
- Default Value:
NOT_FOUND(anything meaningful),
- We have the
action value of the form now,
- STEP 2 - Extract the executionId from the action, using Regular Expression Extractor:
- Apply to: JMeter Variable / xpathAction,
- Reference Name:
xpathExecutionId,
- Regular Expression:
execution=([^&]+),
- Template:
$1$,
- Match No.:
1,
- Default Value:
NOT_FOUND,
- With a BeanShell
Post-processor script:
text = prev.responseDataAsString;
patternText = "(.*)execution=([^&\"]+)(.*)";
p = java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(patternText, java.util.regex.Pattern.DOTALL);
m = p.matcher(text);
if (m.find()) {
vars.put("beanShellExecutionId", m.group(2));
} else {
vars.put("beanShellExecutionId", "NOT_FOUND");
}
This will export the execution id to beanShellExecutionId.
- And here's a BeanShell
assertion example:
text = SampleResult.responseDataAsString;
patternText = "(.*)execution=([^&\"]+)(.*)";
p = java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(patternText, java.util.regex.Pattern.DOTALL);
m = p.matcher(text);
if (m.matches()) {
log.info("found beanShellExecutionId value: " + m.group(2));
} else {
Failure = true;
FailureMessage = "This BeanShell assertion has failed";
}
- BeanShell variables are:
