[SOLVED] Passing compressed xml from response to request in JMeter

Passing compressed xml from response to request in JMeter

I have an export service which returns a compressed xml, and I save it in a zip file. An import service receives the content of the file and changes the database accordingly.

I am trying to write a simple test suite in JMeter (export and then import) and I got stuck at the following: how to take the compressed xml from the response of the export service and to pass it in the request of the import service? Is this possible in JMeter? I googled it, but couldn't find anything useful.

Solution

There are at least 3 ways of doing this:

Regular Expression Extractor PostProcessor. If you not too familiar with regex, the following one will return the whole response body
```
(?s)(^.*)
```
Using Beanshell PostProcessor. Only one line of code is required to store the whole response into "response" JMeter Variable.
```
vars.put("response", new String(data));
```
It is possible to store response into a file via Save Responses to a file listener from the export service and passing the file to the import service. See Performance testing: Upload and Download Scenarios with Apache JMeter guide for details on how to properly do this as there are some nuances.