Add render Flex AMF 3 (Action Message Format) to Listener View Results Tree

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@milamberspace (Bug 47166):
In listener, View Results Tree, add a render to view a Flex AMF 3 message (Action Message Format) in a tree (like XML render)

Version: Nightly
OS: All

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@milamberspace (migrated from Bugzilla):
Created attachment jmeter-amf-view-tree-01.png: Render AMF in view results tree (capture 1)

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@milamberspace (migrated from Bugzilla):
Created attachment jmeter-amf-view-tree-02.png: Render AMF in view results tree (capture 2)

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@milamberspace (migrated from Bugzilla):
Tested on (Linux X64) JDK 6

Need two additional JAR from open source projet Adobe BlazeDS
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/blazeds/Downloads
(GPL V3 licence)

In blazeds.war/lib:
flex-messaging-common.jar
flex-messaging-core.jar

The flex Jar must be added in JMETER_HOME/lib

ANT build doesn't work (some update to add jar needed)

Created attachment patch_render_amf_view_results_tree.txt: Proposal (experimental) patch to render as flex amf message in View Results Tree

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@milamberspace (migrated from Bugzilla):
The flex jar require a JDK 5 or +
But ANT compile show this error

compile-rmi:
[rmic] RMI Compiling 1 class to /Workspaces-JMeter/JMeter-Integration/build/core
[rmic] error: Invalid class file format in /Workspaces-JMeter/JMeter-Integration/build/core/org/apache/jmeter/engine/RemoteJMeterEngineImpl.class. The major.minor version '50.0' is too recent for this tool to understand.
[rmic] error: Class org.apache.jmeter.engine.RemoteJMeterEngineImpl not found.
[rmic] 2 errors

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@milamberspace (migrated from Bugzilla):
==Use case==

With JMeter HTTP Proxy elements (or a test plan with AMF binary message)

Websites to test this patch :

http://www.jamesward.com/census/
Test: Flex AMF 5000 rows
Flex AMF 20000 rows

http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/labs/networkmonitor/main.html

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Sebb (migrated from Bugzilla):
Sorry but the enhancement cannot be implemented as it stands.

ASF code can have at most an optional dependency on code released under the
LGPL v2.1 license; the status of LGPL v3 code has not yet been determined.

It may therefore be necessary to provide the formatting as an optional plugin,
with at least some parts of the code hosted elsewhere.

Perhaps it makes sense to consider enhancing the Tree View Listener to allow
arbitrary external plugin renderers?

Once implemented, this would allow users to add their own renderers more easily

• but I'm not sure how much work such changes would involve.

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@milamberspace (migrated from Bugzilla):
Bad news...
I will try to make an external plugin, perhaps a new listener or modify the view tree listener to a base for external render. Lot of works certainly.
I can host the plugin or external amf render from my website.
Thanks.

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xflibble (migrated from Bugzilla):
WebScarab (and its AMF plugin, not sure if this is separate code) intercepts and sends AMF messages and has different licencing. Could this be leveraged?

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_WebScarab_Project
http://code.google.com/p/webscarab-amf-plugin/

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@pmouawad (migrated from Bugzilla):
According to this I don't think licence GPL V2 is compatible:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

I close Issue as it seems we are blocked by licence.