JMeter upload file with relative path from the jmx file

Question

I am creating a HTTP Request Sampler in JMeter to automate uploading file to a http service. Is there a way to set the "File Path" in the "Send Files With the Request" to a relative path from the location of the jmx file?

Answer 1

Yes. (This was confirmed in JMeter v2.9)

You can use the following BeanShell expression in the filename input field:

${__BeanShell(import org.apache.jmeter.services.FileServer; FileServer.getFileServer().getBaseDir();)}${__BeanShell(File.separator,)}<YOUR FILENAME HERE> 

So if your file, "upload.jpg" was located in the same folder as your JMX test file, the complete value would be

${__BeanShell(import org.apache.jmeter.services.FileServer; FileServer.getFileServer().getBaseDir();)}${__BeanShell(File.separator,)}upload.jpg 

To keep it a bit cleaner, add a "User defined variables" config element where you assign the base of the expression to a variable e.g

SCRIPT_PATH = ${__BeanShell( ...etc

Then your file path input value would read a more readable:

${SCRIPT_PATH}upload.jpg

Answer 2

I'm under version 2.11, and the BeanShell script didn't work for me, to make the CSV file relative, and so to make a relative path you simple need to use this ~/filename.csv. This would mean that the CSV file exist in the same directory as the JMX file. But I guess you can modify it to this for example ~/../results_dir/filename.csv etc..

Good luck.