[Building Sakai] Need help in finding the logic of how ID is generated

[John Bush]

its not just a date converted to long?

the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT

That would be my guess, probably happening in javascript if you are
seeing the client side do it.

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Patil, Tushar <Tushar.Patil at pearson.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are doing performance testing in which one of the tools used is JMeter to
> script the scenario; but we have an issue where the ID's (13 digit
> Numeric) in Postbacks recorded using Jmeter are different for every browser
> session. We would like to know what is the logic on which the IDs are
> generated:
>
> Problem Statement:
>
> Presence of ID's (13 digit Numeric) in Postbacks recorded using Jmeter.
> These ID's seem to be different for every browser session initiated by an
> end user. Generally the technique used for handling such conditions are
> capturing these ID's from the Server Response and substituting in downstream
> requests using variables.However our analysis of the the 'Instructor Led
> Assessment' use case seems to suggest that this specific id is not available
> in the server response(s). My guess is this ID is something that is being
> created at client side maybe using some logic provided in client side
> scripts.
>
>
> What's required:
>
> In order for the Performance Team to create a JMeter script that would
> simulate a browser session as realistically as possible, we would like to
> understand how this ID gets generated and used in HTTP Requests originating
> from the Browser. We would also like to understand what impact sending an
> incorrect ID would have on the successful execution (from a script
> perspective) of this use case.
>
> Refer to the screen shot attached.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tushar
>
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