How to get specific value/node from a json with Jmeter

Hi guys, today I will post about how to get a value from a json response with Jmeter.

First we need Jmeter with all plugins installed:

Let’s use this response for instance. Look that we have a token which is dynamically generated and we need get this value to use in the next request.

Response:

{
   "status": "success",
   "message": "success registering this user",
   "data":    {
      "date": "2015-04-06",
      "id": "1",
      "user": "Rafa",
      "token": "30154dbe350991cf316ec52b8743137b"
   }
}

You can use this site to find the json path and get the expression to use on jmeter:
https://jsonpath.curiousconcept.com

So, we got the expression: $.data.token and now we can create the json path extractor with a default value (when jmeter doesn’t find the expression), jsonpath and the variable (which will contain the value of the expression). See:

Now, we can use the variable on a header or another request:

As always, feel free to add any comments !

Cheers. See you next week 🙂