Add support to TCP Sampler

[LuccaPrado]

Hi, I loved the way that this makes easier to write and run tests, but it would be really useful to have support for TCP Sampler, the one that was a plugin and became part of default jmeter.

It's doable, right?

[andreig09]

Hi, thank you for your message! I'm glad to hear you like the tool.

Could you provide more context about the use case where you need the TCP Sampler?

We haven't provided support for that sampler so far because we assumed it wasn't widely used in the community. However, we might be wrong. If you could share more details, we might be able to implement something tailored to your use case.

In the meantime, you can check out the JMeterDSL wrapper module to use the TCP Sampler plugin.

[LuccaPrado]

Could you provide more context about the use case where you need the TCP Sampler?

Sure! For Financial Services, like Exchanges, it's really common to use Fix Protocol over TCP sockets, as the messages are asynchronous and usually need to deal with high speed and (or, in some cases) high volume.
I was searching alternatives for writing some simple capacity tests, but, most of JMeter competitors don't even support tcp sockets.
And JMeter without this tool have a really steep learning curve for a developer who just wants to see if there's any improvement that could be done.

Besides of what I said, this could bring a lot of fix users as potential clients for the supporting corporate of this project.

In the meantime, you can check out the JMeterDSL wrapper module to use the TCP Sampler plugin.

I started to try it out, but the use wasn't very clear (at least for me, I started to mess around with jmeter-java-dsl today). I'll try again in my spare time soon!

[andreig09]

Thank you for this information. We'll take this into account when setting support priorities.

I started to try it out, but the use wasn't very clear (at least for me, I started to mess around with jmeter-java-dsl today). I'll try again in my spare time soon!

Consider reaching out for support in the Discord server if you have any questions about how to use the wrapper.