JMeter Bug Bean

I came across a potential bug in JMeter when adding support for MongoOptions within mongometer. It's not a big deal in itself as I worked around it, but it was slightly frustrating at the time.

Implementing the MongoOptions seemed rather innocuous at the time; after all it's just another bunch of properties the user can alter. I ended up just adding them all at once. Imagine my disappointment when the extension failed to load in Jmeter as intended. To keep a long story short, the offender was wTimeout. Now, wtimeout (is one of a group a rather poorly named variables, others include j and w ), but why was there an issue with wtimeout?

The error of my ways

This is the error that was generated when starting up JMeter:


This is how it was defined, firstly in ScriptSamplerBeanInfo.java


Next, in ScriptSamplerResource.properties


And finally, in ScriptSampler.java


I checked and double checked the spelling. It didn't really make sense, it should've been fine. Out of all the properties that were defined, the wTimeout property was the odd one out, in that it was the only one that had the pattern of lowercase{1}uppercase{N}. All the others were either lowercase{1}, lowercase{N} or lowercase{N}uppercase{N}. So long story, short; switching from wTimeout to doubleuTimeout resolved the issue.


Next, in ScriptSamplerResource.properties


And finally, in ScriptSampler.java


It seems that when performing the creation of the property, if there is only a single lowercase character followed by an uppercase character, we get an error.

The moral of the story

Hmmmm. I don't really do morals, but if this is a bug, then it needs to be fixed. Either way j, w and wtimeout are really rather poor names for variables.