Scenario Outline

Test sends a REST API request to activate a game. Website receives a socket.io event and displays an alert on the browser.

Question

Since I don't know when the event will be sent, do I need to run a WebSocket Sampler, or perhaps a WebSocket Single-Read Sampler, in a loop, until I get the matching message? So far in my attempts, I can connect to the event server and get message, but they are empty frames or messages are entirely different from the below.

I expect a message like this, which I am able to verify manually using the browser debugger.

{
    "locationId": 110,
    "name": "GAME_STARTED",           <---------------------
    "payload": {
        "id": 146418,
        "boxId": 2002,
        "userId": 419,
        "createdAt": "2022-02-17T09:10:16",
        "lastModifiedAt": "2022-02-17T09:10:22.189",
        "completedAt": "2022-02-17T09:10:22.07",
        "activationMethod": "TAG",
        "nfcTagId": "123423423412342134",
        "gameCount": 1,
        "app": false
    }
}

Alternatively, would this work?

thread A:
open socket
while (true):
   read socket
   if message ~ 'GAME_STARTED':
       break

thread B:
send HTTP REST API request   # triggers event to be sent

Here are the parameters used to connect and where I specify the response pattern, which needs wildcards or a JSON expression.

CodePudding user response：

You can consider using WebSocket Text Frame Filter

If you add the filter configured like above it will remove all the frames which don't contain GAME_STARTED text so the WebSocket Single Read sampler will not "see" them, this way you can just have one sampler without any loops or other logic.

More information:

• Smart close with filter sample example test plan
• JMeter WebSocket Samplers - A Practical Guide