So I've seen several posts saying you're supposed to put the targets in a temp file and the body in a .json file, but I need to send lots of random data to my site, and ideally I don't want to be constantly writing new random data to these files --so I'd like to do it all in one file. If this is just impossible and I have to use multiple files, please let me know.
All I'm trying to do right now is send a POST request to a webpage that is simply a form with 4 inputs: title, number, volume, and year. I have the following code, but right now it's not sending values. It's sending a payload, but one that has no values. Meaning that a key [] and value "" keep getting stored in my map on the backend. Can anyone see the reason it's sending blanks? Could anyone tell me how I should go about fixing it?
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"time"
vegeta "github.com/tsenart/vegeta/lib"
)
func NewCustomTargeter() vegeta.Targeter {
return func(tgt *vegeta.Target) error {
if tgt == nil {
return vegeta.ErrNilTarget
}
tgt.Method = "POST"
tgt.URL = "http://localhost:8080/create.html"
payload := map[string]string{
"title": "junk",
"number": "junk2",
"volume": "junk3",
"year": "junk4",
}
body, _ := json.Marshal(payload)
tgt.Body = []byte(body)
return nil
}
}
func main() {
rate := vegeta.Rate{Freq: 100, Per: 2 * time.Second}
duration := 10 * time.Second
targeter := NewCustomTargeter()
attacker := vegeta.NewAttacker()
var metrics vegeta.Metrics
for res := range attacker.Attack(targeter, rate, duration, "Load Test") {
metrics.Add(res)
}
metrics.Close()
fmt.Printf("%+v
", metrics)
}
You need to do few stuff to make attacker able to send data in FormData format.
First, set the Content-type
header value to application/x-www-form-urlencoded
. You might need to import net/http
package.
header := http.Header{}
header.Set("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
tgt.Header = header
Then, set put the data into url.Values
format. Pass the encoded value of it into tgt.Body
. You also need to import net/url
package.
form := url.Values{}
form.Set("title", "junk")
form.Set("number", "junk2")
form.Set("volume", "junk3")
form.Set("year", "junk4")
tgt.Body = []byte(form.Encode())
On the data preparation, we can also use map literal style.
But since url.Values
is an alias of map[string][]string
(not map[string]string
),
might need some adjustment.
form := url.Values{
"title": []string{"junk"},
"number": []string{"junk2"},
"volume": []string{"junk3"},
"year": []string{"junk4"},
}