Hyperfoil

Getting started: Custom steps and handlers

Hyperfoil offers some basic steps to do HTTP requests, generate data, alter control flow in the scenario etc., but your needs may surpass the features implemented so far. Also, it might be just easier to express your logic in Java code than combining steps in the YAML. The downside is reduced ability to reuse and more tight dependency on Hyperfoil APIs.

This quickstart will show you how to extend Hyperfoil with custom steps and handlers. As we use the standard Java ServiceLoader approach, after you build the module you should drop it into extensions directory. (Note: if you upload the benchmarks through CLI you need to put it to both the machine where you run the CLI and to the controller.)

Each extension will consist of two classes:

Let’s start with a io.hyperfoil.api.config.Step implementation. The interface has single method invoke(Session) that should return true if the step was executed and false if its execution has been blocked and should be retried later. In case that the execution is blocked the invocation must not have any side effects - e.g. if the step is fetching objects from some pools and one of the pools is depleted, it should release the already acquired objects back to the pool.

We’ll create a step that will divide variable from a session by a (configurable) constant and store the result in another variable.

Then we need a builder class that will allow us to configure the step. To keep related classes together we will define it as inner static class:

As the comments say, the builder is using fluent setter syntax to set the attributes. When you want to nest attributes under another builder, you can just add parameter-less method FooBuilder foo() the returns an instance of FooBuilder; the parser will fill this instance as well. There are some interfaces your builder can implement to accept lists or different structures, but the description is out of scope of this quickstart.

The builder class has two annotations: @Name which specifies the name we’ll use in YAML as step name, and @MetaInfServices with StepBuilder.class as the parameter. If you were to implement other type of extension, this would be Action.Builder.class, Request.ProcessorBuilder.class etc. In order to record the service in META-INF directory in the jar you must also add this dependency to your module:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.kohsuke.metainf-services</groupId>
    <artifactId>metainf-services</artifactId>
    <optional>true</optional>
</dependency>

The whole class can be inspected here and it is already included in the extensions directory. You can try running bin/standalone.sh, upload and run divide.hf.yaml. You should see about 5 log messages in the server log.

There are several other integration points but Step:

There is quite some boilerplate code in the process of creating a new component; that’s why you can use Hyperfoil Codegen Maven plugin to scaffold the basic outline for you. Go to the module where you want the component generated and run:

mvn io.hyperfoil:hyperfoil-codegen-maven-plugin:skeleton

The plugin will ask you for the package name, component name and type and write down the source code skeleton. You can provide the parameters right on commandline like

mvn io.hyperfoil:hyperfoil-codegen-maven-plugin:skeleton \
    -Dskeleton.package=foo.bar -Dskeleton.name=myComponent -Dskeleton.type=step

Note: the generator does not add the dependency to org.kohsuke.metainf-services:metainf-services to this module’s pom.xml, you need to do that manually.

If you add io.hyperfoil as a plugin group to your $HOME/.m2/settings.xml like this:

<settings>
  <pluginGroups>
    <pluginGroup>io.hyperfoil</pluginGroup>
  </pluginGroups>
  ...
</settings>

you can use the short syntax for the generator:

mvn hyperfoil-codegen:skeleton -Dskeleton.name=....

See also further information about custom extensions development.


This is the last quickstart in this series; if you seek more info check out the documentation or talk to us on GitHub Discussions.

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