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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 |
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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 |
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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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