Jakarta JMeter / Tipps & Tricks

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Introduction:

I've written some not-quite-default testplans using Jakarta's JMeter and I found that due to an exteme lack of documentation, things were harder than expected.

In order to save someone else some time, I'll post a few things here that I found out.

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I wanted to have the current day, month and year separatedly. Here's my problem and the solution:

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${__time('yyyy',)} // just returned yyyy
${__time(yyyy,)} // returns 2006
//...but beware of this one:
${__time("yyyy",)} // returns "2006" (including ")

You have to use double quotes instead of single ones.
I spent about an hour on this stupid little problem...

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