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Request

This task calls the request method of a grizzly.users implementation.

This is the most essential task in grizzly, it defines requests that the specified load user is going to execute against the target under test.

Optionally, the MIME type of the response can be set, this has to be done if any of the Response steps is going to be used.

Step implementations

Statistics

Executions of this task will be visible in locust request statistics with request type method.

Arguments

  • method RequestMethod - method used for the request, e.g. GET or POST, also includes the direction (to or from)

  • name str - name of the request, used in locust statistics

  • endpoint str - endpoint on the load testing target, have different meaning depending on the specified Load User

  • source str (optional) - payload data sent to endpoint, can be a file path

Format

endpoint

All pipe arguments will be removed from endpoint before creating the task instance. Depending on the Load User, other pipe arguments might be supported.

<endpoint> [| content_type=<content_type>]

  • endpoint str - endpoint in format that the specified Load User understands

  • content_type TransformerContentType (optional) - MIME type of response from endpoint

Specifying MIME/content type as an argument to endpoint is the same as using step_response_content_type.

Then put request "test/request.j2.json" with name "test-put" to endpoint "/api/test | content_type=json"

# same as
Then put request "test/request.j2.json" with name "test-put" to endpoint "/api/test"
And set response content type to "application/json"