Toolbar
| Button | Action |
 | Expand All |
 | Collapse All |
 | Create an Extractor for a response selected in the Test Case Tree or the session grid |
 | Edit the selected Extractor |
 | Show the selected object in the Test Case Tree |
 | Show the selected object in the session grid |
 | View Options |
 | Show disabled extractors |
 | Hide disabled extractors |
 | Turn on Lean UI mode |
 | Turn off Lean UI mode |
 | Show requests |
 | Hide requests |
 | Delete the selected Extractor(s) |
Help Boxes
| Extractors | An Extractor defines a rule of retrieving a value from |
Extractor Context Menu
| Icon | Command | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | Edit | Edit the selected object |
 | Verify | |
 | Show on Tree | Show selected item on the Extractor Tree |
 | Show Sessions | |
 | Delete Extractor(s) | Delete the selected object(s) |
 | Disable Extractor(s) |
Extractor Properties
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| URL | The URL of the response that will be parsed to extract a value |
| Name | The Extractor and its variable name Tip: to use the name from the response viewer below, click "Set the selected text as Extractor Name". |
| Text Before | A text delimiter that occurs immediately before the value to be extracted. Tip: In the response viewer below, select a string before the Extractor value and click "Set the selected text as Text Before". If entering manually: for "new line", use \n; for "Tab", use \t |
| Text After | A text delimiter that occurs immediately after the value to be extracted. Tip: In the response viewer below, select a string after the Extractor value and click "Set the selected text as Text After". If entering manually: for "new line", use \n; for "Tab", use \t |
| Occurrence Type | To make the occurrence a constant integer, select Constant. To make the occurrence an integer within a range, select Random. An example of using a random occurrence: extract a random link to emulate VUs clicking the random link on the page. |
| Occurrence | The occurrence of the matching text to be extracted. The default is 1. |
| Max Occurrence | Maximum Random Occurrence |
| Min Occurrence | Minimum Random Occurrence |
| Use HTML Decoding? | To apply HTML-decoding to the Extractor value, select Yes. Example of HTML-decoding: converting "&>" to ">". The default is No. |
| Use URL Decoding? | To apply URL-decoding to the Extractor value, select Yes. Example of URL-decoding: converting: "%3F" to "?". The default is No. |
| Enforce URL encoding? | The default is No. When using an extractor in a parameter, StresStimulus automatically URL encodes its value when necessary. Select Yes to enforce the URL encoding of the extractor's value. Use this option with caution as it can result in double-encoding a parameter. |
| Use Escaped Hex Decoding? | Some special characters in an HTTP response, maybe escape-hex encoded. An example of decoding: '\x23' to '#'. To apply decoding to the Extractor value, select Yes. The default is No. |
| Use Base64 Encoding? | To apply Base64 encoding to the Extractor value, select Yes. The default is No. |
| Use decimal encoding | Select Yes to apply the decimal HTML encoding to the extractor value. Example: '(' will be encoded as ( The default is No. |
| Number of times to apply decimal encoding | Specify the number of times to apply the decimal encoding to the extractor value. The default is 1. |
| Recorded value | The value returned by the Extractor from the recorded response |
| Description | The Extractor description |
| Regular Expression | The regular expression with a single value <val> which will be extracted. Example: \w+\d="(?<val>.+)" returns a value of the name/value pair, where the name ends with a digit. |
| Header | The response header name, selected from the drop-down |
| Form Field | The form field name, selected from the drop-down |
| XPath query | Enter XPath query to extracts a value from an XML response |
| JPath query | Enter JPath query to extracts a value from a JSON response |
| Disabled? | #Select Yes, to disable the extractor. The default is No. |
| Copy value to Extractor | Select extractor to assign the value of this extractor. |
| Is the Extractor Dynamic? | Select Yes if the extractor definition contains variable(s). Otherwise, select No. |
| Hidden | By default, autocorrelation extractors are hidden, and manually created extractors are not hidden |
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