Session specific variables

Gatling (Open-Source)
1

I am fairly new to Gatling and I started writing a simulation for our system that requires user specific variables in creating and posting a form. I tried finding out how to cache these variables e.g. at request_6 I have a citizenId that I need to keep throughout the whole app but I think the syntax might have been updated.

The code (with some lines censored) is this and I need the last variable saved and re-used through the rest of the requests that follows.

.exec(
  http("request_6")
    .post("/url/url")
    .headers(headers_5)
    .formParam("Param", param)
    .formParam("FullName", "fullName")
    .check(jsonPath("$.citizinId").saveAs("citizenId"))
)

The “citizenId” is something I need to cache from the site and re-use.

2

To further add to this I have lines after that require these variables and Id’s to be able to continue the Digital Claim.

.exec(
  http("request_7")
    .get("/DigitalClaims/StartCreateDigitalClaim?citizenId=#{citizenId}")
    .headers(headers_4)
)
3

Hi @ObiKanTV,

Welcome aboard!

You seem to already know how to use the session api. So I’m not sure what is your question.

Ensure that your "request_7" is called after "request_6" in your scenario and it should be good.
Ensure that your "request_6" correctly works (ie no failure) because of your jsonPath (citizinId vs citizenId perhaps?)

Does that help?

Cheers!

4

It might be that these didn’t work because of something happening earlier in the simulation rather than being this snippet I originally was troubleshooting.

Does the Line: .check(jsonPath(“$.digitalClaimId”).saveAs(“digitalClaimsId”))
save the digitalClaimsId for the rest of the below requests or do I need to cache this repeatedly?

5

I’m not sure to understand your last question.
If you have only one value to store, or you only want the last value, you don’t need to (and I don’t see how to) saveAs in below requests.
But the exec must be executed by the same virtual user (described in the same scenario, request_6 executed before request_7)

For better explanation, you really should send a SSCCE (see How to Ask a Question)

6

This topic was automatically closed 30 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.