Service Virtualization

I wrote a custom transport protocol to support AS2 virtualization.  It works beautifully except that when the VS services a request, the transaction count doesn't increase in Portal.

I presume the transaction count must be bumped by some API that I'm not calling.  Can someone tell me what it is?

Thanks!

Are you extending BaseListenStep and BaseRespondStep?

Are you using "respondLater" in the respond() method of your Respond step?

BaseListenStep and BaseRespondStep - Yes.

respondLater() - Nope.  Would using this method address my problem?

Thanks.

--Mike

Yes, I believe so.  I think we moved some of the metric calculations into that method which includes sending the event the Portal transaction count is based on.

In general, you should always use respondLater, since otherwise you'll consume a thread if you have think time.

Great tip on respondLater() regarding think time.

However, after implementing that, "Transaction Count" in Portal still doesn't budge.

--Mike

Are you calling setRequest in your listen step?

Is anything clearing out test exec?  You should have a value "lisa.vse.stateful.request.received" in TestExec after the listen step finishes up and it should be there until you loop back to the beginning of the VSM.

I'm in business!  Thanks a million.  It was the call to setRequest() that did the trick.  FWIW, I'm still not seeing "lisa.vse.stateful.request.received" but that doesn't seem to be causing me any problems.

--Mike