Hi Team, I am working on a script where I expect inputs from shell script as an argument. This shell script calls my K6 script and execute based on the inputs given by user (say API NAME). Now, I would like to add validation of user input. In case user doesn’t provide the right API Name, then the t…

Hi Satheesh, this is currently not possible in k6, but will be soon in the upcoming v0.35.0 release or the one after that. Take a look at issue #1001 and PR #2093 . The PR is functionally complete for the k6 CLI tool, but we need to finish some changes for k6 Cloud which have delayed merging it. If…

If i understood your question correctly, you want to abort you current run if there is a invalid API Name passed from command line. With this context, i would suggest to make use of fail() which will stops the execution with custom message. please refer below docs. fail(‘Invalid API Name’); …

@kaushik fail() will abort a single iteration, not the entire test. A new API was needed for this which is why we’re adding exec.test.abort().

I think there was a bit of a miscommunication here. [image] satheeshpandianj: Now, I would like to add validation of user input. In case user doesn’t provide the right API Name, then the test should not start and throw an error message “Invalid API Name”. You can easily do this even now, jus…

Thanks @ned . Here is the outcome of your solution. I didn’t get any graceful exit without error message pointing some line of code. [image]

Abort the test in k6

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nedyalko October 5, 2021, 11:40am 7

Yeah, unfortunately there isn’t any way to hide that it’s an exception that aborted the test…

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Abort the test in k6

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