Gatling exec outside scenario scope - POST requests are not called

Question

I am trying to write gatling performance test where I am using the before and after blocks of the Gatling Simulation to make one-time HTTP post

Answer 1

Based on this - Gatling DSL doesn't work inside hooks. I wish there was a warning or something to not waste time on that.

I had to perform the actual POST request without using Gatling DSL as below.

 def CallStop(consumerConfig : ConsumerConfig, stopEndpoint : String ) = { 
          
          val jsonBody = consumerConfig.asJson
          val valuedJsonBody = Printer.noSpaces.copy(dropNullValues = true).print(jsonBody)
          println(valuedJsonBody)        
          println("stopEndpoint:" + stopEndpoint) 
    
          val post = new HttpPost(stopEndpoint)
          post.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json")
          post.setEntity(new StringEntity(valuedJsonBody))
          // send the post request
          val client = new DefaultHttpClient
          val response = client.execute(post)
    
          println("Response:" + response)
      }