HTTP: Implement TCP support

[slandelle]

Probably on top of akka-io

[mushketyk]

Do you mean testing servers that use application level protocol based on TCP?
I guess, if this task is not of a high priority, I could do it.
Do you have any simple use case (in Gatling sytax) so I could have some guiding line while implementing first version?

P.S. Should not it be in gatling-tcp sub-project?

[slandelle]

I don't have a use case personally, but maybe it could be a good idea to ask on the ML?

[okumin]

+1

[He-Pin]

currently I found a uses case
in fact that we are developing a online mobile game,and we need stress test for that,the protocal is based on TCP with protobuf payload,so I want to using gatling for that,but I found gatling currently only support HTTP,so ,I come to this issue.

I haven't looking in side how to implement a gatling tcp,but this is a real use case~:P

[slandelle]

@hepin1989 Actually, the complex part is not the implementation, but really the DSL design. What would such TCP DSL look like? Any proposal?

[He-Pin]

yes,you are right,the DSL is so hard to design ,but how about just request /response ?
and add andThen chain.the use could write what the want to chain the request and response.
send the request ,waiting the response ,handle it and do later,IMO should add some waiting,timeout,ticking,random and so on

[obazoud]

Got a use case: Stress test my graphite cluster with plaintext protocol (and maybe pickle protocol).

[slandelle]

@obazoud DSL proposal? :)

[slandelle]

Community effort: https://github.com/scalecube/gatling-tcp-extensions