How to use perfmon plugins with jmeter-maven-plugin?

Question

Im currently working on a jmeter based project running the tests using jmeter maven plugin. So far everything works until i\'ve added perfmon plugins, adding them to get Tra

Answer 1

The error you are seeing is because jmeter-plugins depends upon JMeter 2.13 which has a broken maven dependency tree. This is something the jmeter-plugins team needs to fix (they need to release a version of jmeter plugins that depends upon JMeter 3.1).

The build is breaking because the plugin is trying to download some transitive dependencies for jmeter-plugins that don't exist, you can work around this by setting:

false

This does however mean that you will need to manually set all the dependencies that jmeter-plugins depends upon in your block.

Here is the dependency tree:

[INFO] \- kg.apc:jmeter-plugins-perfmon:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    +- kg.apc:jmeter-plugins-cmn-jmeter:jar:0.3:compile
[INFO]    |  +- org.apache.jmeter:jorphan:jar:2.13:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- bsf:bsf:jar:2.4.0:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.beanshell:bsh:jar:2.0b5:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.bouncycastle:bcmail-jdk15on:jar:1.49:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on:jar:1.49:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk15on:jar:1.49:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- commons-codec:commons-codec:jar:1.10:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- commons-collections:commons-collections:jar:3.2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:jar:3.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- commons-io:commons-io:jar:2.4:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- commons-jexl:commons-jexl:jar:1.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.apache.commons:commons-jexl:jar:2.1.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:jar:3.3.2:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.2:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- commons-net:commons-net:jar:3.3:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- dnsjava:dnsjava:jar:2.1.7:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- excalibur-datasource:excalibur-datasource:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- hsqldb:hsqldb:jar:1.8.0.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- avalon-framework:avalon-framework-api:jar:4.3:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- avalon-framework:avalon-framework-impl:jar:4.3:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  +- xml-apis:xmlParserAPIs:jar:2.0.2:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  \- jmock:jmock:jar:1.0.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- avalon-logkit:avalon-logkit:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  +- javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.3:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  +- geronimo-spec:geronimo-spec-javamail:jar:1.3.1-rc3:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  \- geronimo-spec:geronimo-spec-jms:jar:1.1-rc4:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- excalibur-instrument:excalibur-instrument-api:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- concurrent:concurrent:jar:1.3.4:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- excalibur-component:excalibur-testcase:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- excalibur-component:excalibur-component:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  +- excalibur-instrument:excalibur-instrument-mgr-api:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  \- excalibur-instrument:excalibur-instrument-mgr-impl:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  \- qdox:qdox:jar:1.5:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- excalibur-instrument:excalibur-instrument:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- excalibur-logger:excalibur-logger:jar:1.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- excalibur-pool:excalibur-pool-api:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- excalibur-pool:excalibur-pool-impl:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  \- junitperf:junitperf:jar:1.8:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- excalibur-pool:excalibur-pool-instrumented:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.htmlparser:htmllexer:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.htmlparser:htmlparser:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:jar:4.2.6:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpmime:jar:4.2.6:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:jar:4.2.5:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- oro:oro:jar:2.0.8:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- jcharts:jcharts:jar:0.7.5:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.jdom:jdom:jar:1.1.3:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.mozilla:rhino:jar:1.7R5:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- junit:junit:jar:4.12:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  \- org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:jar:1.3:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- soap:soap:jar:2.3.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- net.sf.jtidy:jtidy:jar:r938:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.apache.tika:tika-core:jar:1.7:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.apache.tika:tika-parsers:jar:1.7:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.gagravarr:vorbis-java-tika:jar:0.6:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- edu.ucar:netcdf:jar:4.2.20:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  \- edu.ucar:unidataCommon:jar:4.2.20:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |     \- net.jcip:jcip-annotations:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- net.sourceforge.jmatio:jmatio:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.apache.james:apache-mime4j-core:jar:0.7.2:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.apache.james:apache-mime4j-dom:jar:0.7.2:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.apache.commons:commons-compress:jar:1.8.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.tukaani:xz:jar:1.5:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox:jar:1.8.8:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  +- org.apache.pdfbox:fontbox:jar:1.8.8:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  \- org.apache.pdfbox:jempbox:jar:1.8.8:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.bouncycastle:bcmail-jdk15:jar:1.45:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15:jar:1.45:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.apache.poi:poi:jar:3.11:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.apache.poi:poi-scratchpad:jar:3.11:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml:jar:3.11:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  \- org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml-schemas:jar:3.11:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |     \- org.apache.xmlbeans:xmlbeans:jar:2.6.0:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup:tagsoup:jar:1.2.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.ow2.asm:asm-debug-all:jar:4.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- com.googlecode.mp4parser:isoparser:jar:1.0.2:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  \- org.aspectj:aspectjrt:jar:1.8.0:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor:jar:2.6.2:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  \- com.adobe.xmp:xmpcore:jar:5.1.2:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- de.l3s.boilerpipe:boilerpipe:jar:1.1.0:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- rome:rome:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  |  \- jdom:jdom:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- org.gagravarr:vorbis-java-core:jar:0.6:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- com.googlecode.juniversalchardet:juniversalchardet:jar:1.0.3:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- com.uwyn:jhighlight:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  \- com.pff:java-libpst:jar:0.8.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream:jar:1.4.8:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- xmlpull:xmlpull:jar:1.1.3.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- xpp3:xpp3_min:jar:1.1.4c:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- xalan:xalan:jar:2.7.2:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- xalan:serializer:jar:2.7.2:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- xerces:xercesImpl:jar:2.11.0:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- xml-apis:xml-apis:jar:1.4.01:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.apache.xmlgraphics:xmlgraphics-commons:jar:1.5:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- javax.mail:mail:jar:1.5.0-b01:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  \- javax.activation:activation:jar:1.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.apache.geronimo.specs:geronimo-jms_1.1_spec:jar:1.1.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.jsoup:jsoup:jar:1.8.1:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.jodd:jodd-core:jar:3.6.4:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.jodd:jodd-lagarto:jar:3.6.4:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.jodd:jodd-log:jar:3.6.4:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.mongodb:mongo-java-driver:jar:2.11.3:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- com.fifesoft:rsyntaxtextarea:jar:2.5.6:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.7.10:compile
[INFO]    |  |  \- org.slf4j:slf4j-nop:jar:1.7.10:compile
[INFO]    |  +- org.apache.jmeter:ApacheJMeter_core:jar:2.13:compile
[INFO]    |  \- kg.apc:jmeter-plugins-charts:jar:0.1:compile
[INFO]    \- kg.apc:perfmon:jar:2.2.2:compile
[INFO]       +- kg.apc:cmdrunner:jar:1.0.1:compile
[INFO]       +- org.fusesource:sigar:jar:1.6.4:compile
[INFO]       |  \- log4j:log4j:jar:1.2.15:compile
[INFO]       +- avalon-framework:avalon-framework:jar:4.1.5:compile
[INFO]       \- logkit:logkit:jar:2.0:compile

You may get away with adding only a subset of these libraries, assuming that you don't go down code paths that require code from them.

This does kind of highlight why it's important to mark dependencies that you only rely on in testing as test so that they don't get pulled down as a core dependency that is required to run your main code.

The above information hasn't made it into the Wiki yet (there's an ongoing task to add this information and move everything across to the website), it is however available in the CHANGELOG:

https://github.com/jmeter-maven-plugin/jmeter-maven-plugin/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md