The JSONPathPostProcessor uses the follow to turn the JSON results to string, however if toJSONString isn't used then all of the quotes will be removed. Current Example With this Code (JSONPostProcessor 166-167): Object obj = extractedValues.get(0); String objAsString = obj != null ? obj.toString() : ""; //$NON-NLS-1$ Run with: $.context Against: { "context": { "#v": "abc123", "#t": "string" } } Results in: {#v: abc123, #t: string} This is incorrect, all of the quotes have been removed. It should be replaced with something more like: String objAsString = ""; if (extractedValues instanceof JSONArray) { objAsString = new JSONObject((Map) extractedValues.get(0)).toJSONString(); } Which when tested results: {"#t":"string","#v":"abc123"} This obviously needs to be extended for examples where more than one response is returned.
Created attachment 33861 [details] Extract JSON Objects as JSON Strings Extract JSON Objects as JSON Strings. The old implementation gave a Map instance back for the described case.
Created attachment 33862 [details] Extract JSON Objects as JSON Strings Keep PostProcessor clean by moving the stringification into the JSONManager. It would be good, if the interface of JSONManager would show, that it returns a list of Strings. But as it is a public interface it seems to be to late to change it now.
There is an additional use case in which the extractedObject is an instanceof JSONArray rather than a Map (JSONObject). I propose updating the JSONManager stringifyJSONObject the following: private String stringifyJSONObject(Object obj) { if (obj instanceof JSONArray) { return ((JSONArray) obj).toJSONString(); } else if (obj instanceof Map) { return new JSONObject((Map<String, ?>) obj).toJSONString(); } return obj == null ? "" : obj.toString(); //$NON-NLS-1$ } An example would be: { "saveInto": [ "string1" ] } using JSONPath: $.saveInto I'm not sure how you create the attachments or I would do it for you.
Created attachment 33882 [details] Extract JSON Objects as JSON Strings My old patch should have worked with your use case already. But to be on the safe side, I added the case for JSONArray.
Ok for patch. Thanks Felix
Date: Tue May 31 18:19:48 2016 New Revision: 1746310 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1746310&view=rev Log: Format extracted JSON Objects in JSON Post Processor correctly as JSON. Bugzilla Id: 59609 Added: jmeter/trunk/test/src/org/apache/jmeter/extractor/TestJSONPostProcessor.java Modified: jmeter/trunk/src/components/org/apache/jmeter/extractor/json/jsonpath/JSONManager.java jmeter/trunk/src/components/org/apache/jmeter/extractor/json/jsonpath/JSONPostProcessor.java jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/3992