Environment Variables for Locust playbooks

[vasiliyb]

Folks,
Is there a way to pass the host variable into the playbook?

class MainPageSet(TaskSet):
    # Main Page
    @task(1)
    def main_page(self):
        response = self.client.get("${URI}")

class UserBehaviour(TaskSet):
    tasks = {MainPageSet:10}

class MainPage(HttpLocust):
    host = "${HOSTNAME}"
    task_set = UserBehaviour
    min_wait = 1000
    max_wait = 1000%

In other words, I would like to pass in http://foo.com and /index.html into the playbook as parameters ${HOSTNAME} and ${URI}. Is this possible?

Thanks!

[heyman]

Sorry, I'm no sure what it is you want to do, so I'm guessing here. Could you use environment variables to pass in variables?

import os

class MainPage(HttpLocust):
    host = os.environ.get("LOCUST_HOST")

I might be misunderstanding what it is you want to do. Perhaps you could elaborate?

[vasiliyb]

great! that will work :) Thanks

[ruchikaChawla]

Hello Everyone,

I were using jmeter till now but i saw it is taking lots of resources and memory to run,
so now i started reading locust. i am new to locust.
i want to use locust in no-web mode e.g $ locust -f locust_files/my_locust_file.py --no-web -c 1000 -r 100 but same as above question , i dont want to hard code the URL or you can say header parameter like unique request id and all, i want to pass it from command line, like we can pass in jmeter and we can get it in configuration file using __P() function.
how we can get the same thing in locust, i know the way of using environment variables but i do not want to use this.

[ruchikaChawla]

Hello Everyone,

I were using jmeter till now but i saw it is taking lots of resources and memory to run,
so now i started reading locust. i am new to locust.
i want to use locust in no-web mode e.g $ locust -f locust_files/my_locust_file.py --no-web -c 1000 -r 100 but same as above question , i dont want to hard code the URL or you can say header parameter like unique request id and all, i want to pass it from command line, like we can pass in jmeter and we can get it in configuration file using __P() function.
how we can get the same thing in locust, i know the way of using environment variables but i do not want to use this.