Generate a finite number of requests

[manoeli1012]

In order to prepare my tests I need some of the my locust test to be able to execute exact number of requests and stop.
For smaller number I was able to use combination of raise StopUser() and small run_time or some longer run_time, but when try big numbers, start run into problems.
I'm using locust HTTP client in my automation and big run_time works for me, when it is over, it marks the tests as stopped and I can move with my next action. I also run locust in distributed node (in k8s).
Any suggestion what approach I can take to be able to implement that behavior ?

[cyberw]

Hi @manoeli1012 ! locust-plugins provides a somewhat experimental way to do using the -i parameter: https://github.com/SvenskaSpel/locust-plugins?tab=readme-ov-file#command-line-options

[manoeli1012]

Hi @cyberw,

I played with that locally, but in our deploy we start the test via HTTP /swarm endpoint and this doesn't seem to work.
Can you point me to the actual implementation, maybe can do some custom for my use case ?

[cyberw]

https://github.com/SvenskaSpel/locust-plugins/blob/master/locust_plugins/__init__.py#L168 Yea, I've only ever used it for --headless runs.