Jmeter extracting fields/parsing JSON response
I am not sure about your plugin but if it supports JSON path expressions it should be possible.
Try with this expression: $.[0].Name
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This is the plugin I use: http://jmeter-plugins.org/wiki/JSONPathExtractor/ and given expression works with it.
You can find more about JSON Path expressions here: http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/index.html#e2.
We can add a regular expression extractor for fetching the value from the response.
Like This:
Using Ubik Load Pack JSON plugin for JMeter which is part of JMeter since version 3.0 (donated plugin) and called JSON Extractor, you can do it:
Test Plan overview:
ULP_JSON PostProcessor:
If Controller:
And here is the run result:
So as you can see it is possible with plain JMeter
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Working with JSON in JMeter is not quite easy as JMeter was designed long ago before JSON was invented. There are some extensions however that make life easier:
http://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog/extract-json-content-efficiently-with-jmeter-using-json-path-syntax-with-ubik-load-pack/