Using a XPATH substring function

Question

I need help figuring out this XPATH substring function, which I cannot get to work. I have tried all kinds of variations of this:

.//a[contains(text(),'Home')]/@href[substring('jsessionid',12)]

Trying to get the jsessionid value from this tag:

<a href="/myapp/home;jsessionid=521EFCEE442922CF84C0FCC2809EC143">Home</a>

Nothing I try works. Any thoughts?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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Using this method, you can get the jsessionid from the 24th index of the @href attribute like this:

substring(//a[contains(text(),'Home')]/@href, 24)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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answered Aug 08 '14 at 00:48

scrowler

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '14 at 10:34

XPAth Extractor has known constraing of a lot of memory consumption due to building DOM tree in memory.

I believe that it can be handled much easier using HTTP Cookie Manager.

Add CookieManager.save.cookies=true property to user.properties file which lives under /bin folder of your JMeter installation
Add HTTP Cookie Manager to your Test Plan.
Wherever you require appending JSESSIONID cookie value to url use the following construction:
```
/myapp/home;jsessionid=${COOKIE_JSESSIONID}
```

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