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Message Responders can receive and respond with any content over one of the supported virtual asset protocol/API deployment options—namely, HTTP, JMS and WebSphere MQ, or through a protocol/API that is handled by a custom extension (see Using Custom Transports, Message Formats, and Tools_Virt). By customizing Message Responder options, you can customize the behavior of the virtual assets—with different request/response use cases specified manually or via data sources, error conditions, delays, and so forth.
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- Form Input
- Form XML View Options
- Literal View Options
- Scripted View Options
- Form JSON View Options
- Sequence Responses
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- Performance group: If you’re using performance profiles, you can set or change this responder’s performance group using this control. For details on performance profiles, see Working with Performance Profiles.
- Think time: Enter the amount of time (in milliseconds) for the message delay you want to emulate (e.g., to emulate a slow service). This time will be added to a) the execution time, which is calculated from the time that the server finishes receiving the request to the time that the sending of the response begins and b) any additional time specified via performance profiles, which are described in in Working with Performance Profiles. If If a data source is available, you may also parameterize this value.
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- Use the procedure described in Generating a Data Source Template for Populating Message Elements 1 to create a CSV file from the Form Input view of the Message Responder tool. A data source will be generated and added to the responder suite. This generated data source will contain columns for responses. The Message Responder tool’s Form Input view will be parameterized automatically.
- Add a new data source column (e.g., using Excel, OpenOffice or a similar spreadsheet application) for each request parameter that should be used to determine the response. Wildcards can be used.
- Configure the Message Responder’s data source mapping with the new request columns you added. See Data Source Correlation Tab for details.
- Add new rows to the data source (e.g., using Excel, OpenOffice or a similar spreadsheet application) in order to specify values for request parameters and the desired corresponding response parameters.
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