Traffic Parrot 5.0.0 release, whats new?

We have released Traffic Parrot 5.0.0. Here is a list of what is included in the new release:

Features

• New HTTP skeletons feature:
  • OpenAPI specifications are used to generate a list of HTTP skeletons that can be used to help design HTTP mappings in the Traffic Parrot user interface
  • Place OpenAPI specifications in the openapi configuration directory to populate the dropdown menu or use the upload button on the HTTP Add/Edit page next to the dropdown
  • This replaces the old scenarios.js dropdown, which has been removed (see changes section below for migration instructions)
• Maven plugin improvements:
  • New trafficparrot:check-environment goal to run in the pre-clean phase to check nothing is preventing a successful start of Traffic Parrot
  • Check that there is not an existing Traffic Parrot instance running
  • Check for locked files or directories that are unable to be cleaned on Windows (typically this is because a file is open in a text editor or command prompt)
  • Improved speed when cacheDownload is enabled by also caching the extracted zip file
  • Accept either file:/// or file:// syntax when specifying file URLs
  • Remember to upgrade your plugin version to 5.0.0

Fixes

• The randomInteger and randomDouble helpers now return a number type instead of a string, so that they can be combined with other helpers that require a number. For example when combined with the stringFormat helper: {{stringFormat '%02d:%02d' (randomInteger 0 59) (randomInteger 0 59)}}

Changes

• The scenarios.js HTTP dropdown has been removed.
  • We recommend migrating to an OpenAPI specification file which can be used to produce a similar dropdown via the new HTTP skeletons functionality
  • Please email help@trafficparrot.com with your scenarios.js file and we will translate it to an OpenAPI file for you
  • Removed unused property trafficparrot.gui.scenarios.resource.name
• Improved reporting of port clashes and how to change ports in trafficparrot.properties