VuGen Code Snippets

VuGen Code Snippets

May 8th, 2009 Posted by Stuart Moncrieff 2 Comments »

This is a repository of code snippets. Please send me any useful sections of code that you have written.

Note that this repository does not contain trivial examples (i.e. something you could learn by looking at the example code in the LoadRunner Online Function Reference – accessed by pressing F1 in VuGen).

Code snippets that have been written as separate Tech Tips:

• Adding try/catch blocks to Java-based BPM scripts
• How to query a MySQL database
• How to calculate the difference between two dates or timestamps
• Writing a polling loop to check that something has finished
• How to parameterising Unix/Posix timestamps
• How to handle HTTP POSTs with a changing number of name-value pairs
• Scripting Web Services
• Custom character encoding (SAP Web Dynpro)

Writing to a file

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/* Writes a string to the end of a file. Arguments: - file_name: Include the full path in the file name, and escape any slashes. E.g. "C:\\TEMP\\output.txt". Note that file does not have to exist beforehand, but directory does. - string: If attempting to write a single line, include a newline character at the end of the string. Returns 0 on success. On failure, function will raise lr_error_message and return -1. */ int jds_append_to_file(char* file_name, char* string) { int fp; // file pointer int rc; // return code int length = strlen(string);   // Check that file_name is not NULL. if (file_name == NULL) { lr_error_message("Error. File name is NULL"); return -1; }   fp = fopen(file_name, "a"); // open file in "append" mode. if (fp == NULL) { lr_error_message("Error opening file: %s", file_name); return -1; }   rc = fprintf(fp, "%s", string); if (rc != length) { lr_error_message("Error writing to file: %s", file_name); return -1; }   rc = fclose(fp); if (rc != 0) { lr_error_message("Error closing file: %s", file_name); return -1; }   return 0; }

Check if a file already exists

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// Checks if a file already exists on the filesystem. // Arguments: // - file_name: Include the full path in the file name. // Returns TRUE (1) if file exists and user has read access to the file, otherwise function returns FALSE (0). int jds_file_exists(char* file_name) { int fp; // file pointer   fp = fopen(file_name, "r+"); // open file in read mode. File must already exist. if (fp == NULL) { return FALSE; } else { fclose(fp); return TRUE; } }

Saving a file to the hard disk

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// Saves a file to the hard disk. // Arguments: // - file_name: Include the full path in the file name. Note that file must not exist before function is called. // - file_content: The data to save to the file. Can be binary or string data. // - file_size: The size/length of the data to save to the file. If it is string data, you can find this using strlen(). If you are saving binary data from a web page, use web_get_int_property(HTTP_INFO_DOWNLOAD_SIZE). // Returns 0 on success. On failure, function will raise lr_error_message and return -1. int jds_save_file(char* file_name, void* file_content, unsigned int file_size) { int rc; // function return code int fp; // file pointer   // Check input values if (file_name == NULL) { lr_error_message("File name is NULL"); return -1; } else if (file_content == NULL) { lr_error_message("File content is NULL"); return -1; } else if (file_size < 1) { lr_error_message("Invalid file size: %d", file_size); return -1; }   // Does the file already exist? if (jds_file_exists(file_name) == TRUE) { lr_error_message("File %s already exists", file_name); return -1; }   fp = fopen(file_name, "wb"); // open file in "write, binary" mode. if (fp == NULL) { lr_error_message("Error opening file: %s", file_name); return -1; }   rc = fwrite(file_content, file_size, 1, fp); if (rc != 1) { lr_error_message("Error writing to file. Items written: %d", rc); return -1; }   rc = fclose(fp); if (rc != 0) { lr_error_message("Error closing file: %s", file_name); return -1; }   return 0; }

Saving a binary file from a webpage (like a PDF or a GIF). Note that this is not a good way to veryify that your LoadRunner/BPM script is running successfully.

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Action() { int size; char* file = "C:\\TEMP\\test.zip";   // Make this big enough to hold the downloaded file. web_set_max_html_param_len("1048576"); // 1 MB   // Save entire HTTP response body web_reg_save_param("FileContents", "LB/BIN=", "RB/BIN=", "Search=Body", LAST);   // Note that it is best to use web_custom_request, as this guarantees that only one file is being downloaded by this step. web_custom_request("DownloadPlugin", "URL=http://www.example.com/files/test.zip", "Method=GET", "Resource=1", "RecContentType=text/css", "Referer=http://www.jds.net.au", "Snapshot=t1.inf", LAST);   // returns the size of the previous HTTP response size = web_get_int_property(HTTP_INFO_DOWNLOAD_SIZE);   jds_save_file(file, lr_eval_string("{FileContents}"), size);   return 0; }

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