How to generalize StringBody and ByteArrayBody to a body?

Gatling (Open-Source)
1

Hi,

I’m trying to write a test which posts either string data or binary data to a url. If it’s string data I can use the feeder mechanism to replace some variables in the string.

This is what I’m trying to do

var body = StringBody("")
if (dataFormat == “a”) {
body = ByteArrayBody(someBytes)
} else {
body = StringBody(message)
}

val testHttp = http(“request_1”).post(messagesPath).header(contentType, headerJson).body(body)

But it fails because body has already been declared as one type and later I set it to another.

In Java I would just declare body as whatever the superclass of StringBody and ByteArrayBody is.

How do I do that in gatling?

Is there an API doc for StringBody and ByteArrayBody, and for the body() method? I haven’t been able to find it if there is.

2

val body =
if (dataFormat == “a”) {
ByteArrayBody(someBytes)
} else {
StringBody(message)
}

3

Thanks!

After much trial and error, I came up with this:
var body:Body = StringBody("") and it seems to work. Scala newbie.

I guessed the superclass of both was called Body, and I generated an error in order to determine the package Body and StringBody were in because I couldn’t find it online.

Could someone point me to the documentation for these classes? Intellij doesn’t help me with this either.

4

No offense but this is very ugly and you should go with my version.