Hyperfoil

Session Variables

All but the simplest scenarios will use session variables. Hyperfoil sports steps that generate values into these variables (randomInt, randomItem, …), processors that write data from other sources to variables (store, array) and many places that read variables and use the values to perform some operations (httpRequest.path ) or alter control flow.

Hyperfoil uses different types of variables (slots in the session) for integer variables and generic objects (commonly strings). When a numeric value is received as a string (e.g. when parsing response headers) and you want to use it in a step that expects exclusively integral values you have to convert it explicitly, e.g. using the stringToInt action. Steps that read values to form a string can usually consume both types of variables, without any need for conversion.

Besides user-defined variables there are some read-only pseudo-variables that can be used in the scenario as if these were regular variables:

Variable Type Description
hyperfoil.agent.id integer Zero-based index of the agent node
hyperfoil.agents integer Number of agent nodes or 1 when running in in-VM mode (standalone or CLI)
hyperfoil.agent.thread.id integer Zero-based index of current executor thread within this agent.
hyperfoil.agent.thread s integer Number of executor threads running in this agent.
hyperfoil.global.thread.id integer Zero-based index of current executor thread across all agents (unique).
hyperfoil.global.threads integer Total number of executor threads on all agents.
hyperfoil.phase.name object Full name of the currently executed phase (possibly including fork and iteration number).
hyperfoil.phase.id integer Index of the currently executed phase.
hyperfoil.phase.iteration integer Iteration number of the currently executed phase.
hyperfoil.run.id object Identifier of the current run, e.g. 0123.
hyperfoil.session.id integer Unique index of this virtual user (session). Note that in benchmarks with multiple phases the indices might not be zero-based.

String interpolation

Components that accept string values usually allow you to use a pattern - parts of the string can be replaced in runtime with the value from a session variable. A simple example of pattern would be The quick brown ${wild-animal} jumps over the lazy ${domestic-animal} - variables wild-animal and domestic-animal would get replaced with their respective values.

When you really want to use ${wild-animal} in a value for such component you should escape it with one more dollar sign: This $${variable} won't be replaced will be rendered into This ${variable} won't be replaced.

There are a few transformations that you can perform with a variable value while interpolating the pattern:

Sequence-scoped access

When an array or collection is stored in a session variable you can access the individual elements by appending [.] to the variable name, e.g. my-variable[.]. You can see that we don’t use the actual index into the array: instead we use current sequence instance index. You can read more about running multiple sequences concurrently in the Architecture/Scenario Execution.

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