workaround? RE: Problem - JMeter uses \ in file pathnamel as spec ial characte r

["Smits.Dolf" <do...@siemens.com>]

Hi Gaurav,

for a workaround try to add more escape characters. With the "rename entry"
it will work when i use 4 backslashes.
(maybe an old unix/ldap trick, if esaping an charachter won't work, double
the amount of escape characters, eg from 1 to 2, to 4, to 8, to 16, although
i've never used more than 8 escape characters.)
this behaviour comes from the fact that a string is parsed several times, so
several times the escape characters disappear after having functioned in a
parse operation.

Can you try this workaround?
I will also experiment a bit with this, and after that add the conclusion
about escaping in the manual.

Success,

Dolf Smits

-----Original Message-----
From: Smits.Dolf [mailto:dolf.smits@siemens.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 21:54
To: 'JMeter Users List'
Subject: RE: Problem - JMeter uses \ in file pathnamel as special
characte r


Hi Gaurav,

I just did some looking op in the specs and you proceeded the correct way.
in a DN a \ character is an escape character, for adding a \ you do need to
escape it so a \\ combination should be sufficient.

I tested this with a modifyDN request, and the \\ character disappaers into
bitspace somewhere, so it might be a bug somewhere between the gui and the
JNDI code.
I will try to pinpoint this (and hopefully repair this)

Can you still add a bugzilla entry ( i could not find any so I suppose you
did not get to this sofar)
if in trouble, please send the testplan and logfiles etc to me directly and
I will create a bugzilla entry with the needed attachements.

Thanks,

Dolf Smits

-----Original Message-----
From: Dhiman, Gaurav [mailto:Gaurav.Dhiman@ca.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 17:23
To: JMeter Users List; Peter Lin
Subject: RE: Problem - JMeter uses \ in file pathnamel as special
characte r



Attached is the JMeter test case file.
I am using JMeter 1.9.1 for this.

In this I am using _StringFromFile() function to fetch the few of the
values from file.
In create and Modify test, see the Entry DN field, which contains the
file name, that filename is creating a problem. I give that file name
without '\' character, it works file, but it does not work with '\'
character in filename path. I even tried using \\ thinking it to be a
escape character, but still does not work. This limits me to not to
mention the filename there.

I hope this will make you understand the problem in better way.

Regards,
Gaurav

 


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Lin [mailto:woolfel@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 8:37 PM
To: JMeter Users List
Subject: Re: Problem - JMeter uses \ in file pathnamel as special
characte r

please post your test plan, minus anything sensitive. that's going to
be the easiest way for us to help you. if you can't post the test
plan, than there's very little we can do.

I understand your frustration, but these are not trivial things to
debug without all the details. good luck

peter


On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:02:50 +0530, Dhiman, Gaurav
<ga...@ca.com> wrote:
> 
> I am once again explaining my problem.
> I am using the LDAPExt Request Sampler, through that I am using the
Add
> Test option and passing the filename path (c:\gd.txt), when I run that
> JMeter test. It throws an error (I have already sent the request
string
> as well as the response string from JMeter in my last of the few
mails).
> 
> Somebody on this mailing list suggested me to use "/gd.txt" in place
of
> "C:\gd.txt", I did that also, but that also gives an error.
> 
> Now what I need is, I need to send the pathname of a file (C:\gd.txt)
to
> LDAP server, how can I do that using JMeter. JMeter gives an error
with
> '\' character as it considers it to be a special character and I don't
> know how to handle it.
> 
> If anybody has answer, please respond.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Gaurav Dhiman
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Lin [mailto:woolfel@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:28 PM
> To: JMeter Users List
> Subject: Re: Problem - JMeter uses \ in file pathnamel as special
> characte r
> 
> I'm still confused as to which character is being used with jmeter. if
> it is something like C:\myfile.txt
> 
> then it would be special character. if it's /myfile.txt, then the path
> is probably wrong. some clarification on exactly what is happening
> would help diagnose the problem.
> 
> peter
> 
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:50:05 +0100, BAZLEY, Sebastian
> <se...@atosorigin.com> wrote:
> > Useful - but it does not mention "/", so I wonder why that failed?
> >
> > S.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Lin [mailto:woolfel@gmail.com]
> > Sent: 19 August 2004 13:48
> > To: JMeter Users List
> > Subject: Re: Problem - JMeter uses \ in file pathnamel as special
> > characte r
> >
> > http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/tutorial/beyond/names/syntax.html
> >
> > here's a page on ldap and handling special characters.
> >
> > peter
> >
> >
> 
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