JMeter saving response data - Non-TEXT response data, cannot record: ()

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I'm trying to save my response data in a JMeter distributed non-gui test. I'd prefer to be able to do it via the JMeter config, to avoid modifying my custom JMeter controllers and test fragments.

For most of my responses, which are in xml, I get the following response:

<responseData class="java.lang.String">Non-TEXT response data, cannot record: ()</responseData>

Here are the settings I have in my user.properties:

jmeter.save.saveservice.data_type=true
jmeter.save.saveservice.label=true
jmeter.save.saveservice.response_code=true
# response_data is not currently supported for CSV output
jmeter.save.saveservice.output_format=xml
jmeter.save.saveservice.response_data=true
# Save ResponseData for failed samples
jmeter.save.saveservice.response_message=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.successful=true
jmeter.save.saveservice.thread_name=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.time=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.subresults=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.assertions=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.latency=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.connect_time=false
jmeter.save.saveservice.samplerData=true
jmeter.save.saveservice.responseHeaders=true
jmeter.save.saveservice.requestHeaders=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.encoding=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.bytes=true
jmeter.save.saveservice.url=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.filename=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.hostname=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.thread_counts=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.sample_count=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.idle_time=true

If this issue is not solvable, I plan to modify my controller to grab the response data with getThreadContext().getPreviousSampler().getResponseDataAsString(), and print this directly to the JMeter log, however, if possible, I'd prefer to do this without changing the code.

Is there any way to get JMeter to convert xml response data and save it to the jtl file, via the config files?

UBIK LOAD PACK UBIK LOAD PACK · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-27T12:09:32

Since jmeter 2.9, response data is stripped when using distributed mode. This is controlled by mode property which is StrippedBatch bu default.

To get the response, switch it to Batch , but this can impact scalability of JMeter. You should usually avoid using previous response in your tests.

JMeter saving response data - Non-TEXT response data, cannot record: ()

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