Testing "Any" system

[ghost]

The docs says that I can test any system. I've written a simple test file for a code generating script, but when I run locust, even though I see it's spawning the processes as specified I get absolutely no stats. Can you give me a simple example of how to test something that's not a web app using locust?
Thanks!

[heyman]

Hi!

Currently, you need to fire the internal request_success event (http://docs.locust.io/en/latest/api.html#locust.events.request_success) or request_failure event manually in your client when testing some other system.

Here's a small fictive example:

from time import time
from locust.events.import request_success

class MyCustomClient(SomeProtocol):
    def do_request(self, endpoint_name, request_type, *args, **kwargs):
        start_time = time()
        data = super(MyCustomClient, self).do_request(endpoint_name, request_type, *args, **kwargs)
        response_time = time() - start_time
        request_success.fire(method=request_type, path=endpoint_name, response_time=response_time, content_length=len(data))
        return data

I haven't tested the above code, but you should get the idea. There are plans for making so that you can plug in a custom client part of the official API soon, and then it will get proper documentation.