locust.weight supported, just undocumented?

[sanga]

Seems like it works i.e. that the following does what you'd expect:

class ReallyUnlikelyLocust(Locust):
    weight = 1
    ....

class MuchMoreLikelyLocust(Locust):
    weight = 100
    ....

However, so far as I can tell:

• it's undocumented
• locust -f blah.py ReallyUnlikelyLocust MuchMoreLikelyLocust --show-task-ratio[-json] returns incorrect information

[Jahaja]

Yeah, it's supported and we should update the docs accordingly. show-task-ratio should be fixed as well.

I think the reason that it's not documented is because we haven't used it much.

[sanga]

Sure. I suspect it's not used that much in general, as this has been here for a while I guess. I only spotted it as I was refactoring inspectlocust a bit (to allow floats for task weights)

[Jahaja]

There's some value to it. I've used it for a use-case similar to this:

class WebUser(Locust):
    weight = 10
    ....

class MobileUser(Locust):
    weight = 1
    ....

[sanga]

Yeah, it definitely has value - I could find a use for this too (now that I know about it). It guess it just hasn't been widely used as it's not documented ;) Well, I couldn't find it at least.