JMeter upload file with relative path from the jmx file

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I am creating a HTTP Request Sampler in JMeter to automate uploading file to a http service. Is there a way to set the "File Path" in the "Send Files With the Request" to a relative path from the location of the jmx file?

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3 Answers

48
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Yes. (This was confirmed in JMeter v2.9)

You can use the following BeanShell expression in the filename input field:

${__BeanShell(import org.apache.jmeter.services.FileServer; FileServer.getFileServer().getBaseDir();)}${__BeanShell(File.separator,)}<YOUR FILENAME HERE>

So if your file, "upload.jpg" was located in the same folder as your JMX test file, the complete value would be

${__BeanShell(import org.apache.jmeter.services.FileServer; FileServer.getFileServer().getBaseDir();)}${__BeanShell(File.separator,)}upload.jpg

To keep it a bit cleaner, add a "User defined variables" config element where you assign the base of the expression to a variable e.g

SCRIPT_PATH = ${__BeanShell( ...etc

Then your file path input value would read a more readable:

${SCRIPT_PATH}upload.jpg

6
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I'm under version 2.11, and the BeanShell script didn't work for me, to make the CSV file relative, and so to make a relative path you simple need to use this ~/filename.csv. This would mean that the CSV file exist in the same directory as the JMX file. But I guess you can modify it to this for example ~/../results_dir/filename.csv etc..

Good luck.

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I found the answer here http://kisbigger.blogspot.com/2013/09/pointing-to-files-with-relative-paths.html which was ...

  • step 1: Create a user-defined-variable Config element to your project.
  • step 2: Add a new variable CONFIG_PATH
  • step 3: in the value column place this code : ${__BeanShell(import org.apache.jmeter.services.FileServer; FileServer.getFileServer().getBaseDir();)}
  • step 4 : use the variable name wherever you want like ${CONFIG_PATH}\config.xml

having a filename.csv in the same folder as the jmx and putting ~/filename.csv with JMeter 2.11 and a newer JAVA did not work