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Posted to user@jmeter.apache.org by Sonam Chauhan <so...@ce.com.au> on 2003/12/10 07:14:46 UTC
Hassles generating text assertions
Hi -
I have run into problems getting JMeter to do text assertions on certain
HTML text.
I want JMeter response assertions to ensures HTML snippets like the one
below occur in the HTTP response:
--------------------------------------------------------
<input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-DESCRIPTION[1]" value = "Leader ohp
trolley">
--------------------------------------------------------
This requires that things like the quotation mark ('"'), be escaped. JMeter
uses Jakarta-ORO which implements Perl-compatible regular expressions (doco:
http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/index.html). So I figured using Perl
quotemeta could escape the text properly:
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bash$ perl -le 'print quotemeta q/<input type="hidden"
name="NEW_ITEM-DESCRIPTION[1]" value = "Leader ohp trolley">/'
--------------------------------------------------------
That gave me:
--------------------------------------------------------
\<input\ type\=\"hidden\"\ name\=\"NEW_ITEM\-DESCRIPTION\[1\]\"\ value\ \=\
\"Leader\ ohp\ trolley\"\>
--------------------------------------------------------
This worked to an extent. The problem is that Jakarta-ORO/JMeter does not
like certain things Perl quotemeta does -- like the escaping of spaces ('\
'), or escaping square brackets ('\[1\]').
Can anyone let me know a good way to escape the HTML snippets above so that
JMeter can use it in a response assertions?
With regards,
Sonam Chauhan
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Re: Hassles generating text assertions
Posted by Jordi Salvat i Alabart <js...@atg.com>.
Hi Sonam,
I've been testing. The Response Assertion seems to be handling escaped
spaces, quotes, brackets, etc. nicely. In any case, if it doesn't, it's
a bug, since the org.apache.oro.text.regex package description says:
"Any other backslashed character matches itself." Which means that
quotemeta is perfectly appropriate for your purpose (although it tends
to escape too much: it essentially escapes all non-alphanumeric characters).
Please double-check your tests.
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Salut,
Jordi.
En/na Sonam Chauhan ha escrit:
> Hi -
>
> I have run into problems getting JMeter to do text assertions on certain
> HTML text.
>
> I want JMeter response assertions to ensures HTML snippets like the one
> below occur in the HTTP response:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> <input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-DESCRIPTION[1]" value = "Leader ohp
> trolley">
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> This requires that things like the quotation mark ('"'), be escaped. JMeter
> uses Jakarta-ORO which implements Perl-compatible regular expressions (doco:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/index.html). So I figured using Perl
> quotemeta could escape the text properly:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> bash$ perl -le 'print quotemeta q/<input type="hidden"
> name="NEW_ITEM-DESCRIPTION[1]" value = "Leader ohp trolley">/'
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> That gave me:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> \<input\ type\=\"hidden\"\ name\=\"NEW_ITEM\-DESCRIPTION\[1\]\"\ value\ \=\
> \"Leader\ ohp\ trolley\"\>
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> This worked to an extent. The problem is that Jakarta-ORO/JMeter does not
> like certain things Perl quotemeta does -- like the escaping of spaces ('\
> '), or escaping square brackets ('\[1\]').
>
> Can anyone let me know a good way to escape the HTML snippets above so that
> JMeter can use it in a response assertions?
>
> With regards,
> Sonam Chauhan
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