RawFileBodyPart for external files (non-resource) Help work around

Gatling (Open-Source)
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RawFileBodyPart currently only accepts a file from the resources folder.
How do I read a file outside of the resources folder?

Alternatively, how do I convert a byte array into a RawFileBodyPart since ByteArrayBodyPart seems to be functionally different and will cause a failure where RawFileBodyPart would have worked

Works:

Doesn’t work, bytes are read and sent but API doesn’t accept it as raw file:

2

RawFileBodyPart currently only accepts a file from the resources folder.

It shouldn’t. It should fallback to using a relative location, then an absolute one.

Do you have any data to back your statement? Typically, as stated in this group’s terms:

  • Make sure you’re using an up-to-date Gatling version
  • Provide a Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example (see http://sscce.org/)
3

.bodyPart(RawFileBodyPart(“file”, session => “data.txt”))

Why do you pass a function that returns a static value?

.bodyPart(RawFileBodyPart(“file”, “data.txt”))

Doesn’t work

.bodyPart(ByteArrayBodyPart(session => {
val dir = new File(“/data”)
val file = new File(dir, “data.txt”)
Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(file.getAbsolutePath))
}))

No idea what doesn’t work as you don’t provide any detail, but using this would be way more simple:

4

I see, my bad as I couldn’t find this documented anywhere, and I assumed it only read from the resources directory.

This seems to work. Thanks!