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Schedule

loop

Commentary​

added in 0.6.0

Loops a schedule, causing ShadowTraffic to generate data indefinitely.

Examples​

Using loop​

When the last stage of a schedule finishes, loop resets the schedule and begins execution from the first stage again.

{
    "generators": [
        {
            "name": "a",
            "topic": "generatorA",
            "value": {
                "_gen": "oneOf",
                "choices": [
                    1,
                    2,
                    3
                ]
            },
            "localConfigs": {
                "maxEvents": 3
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "b",
            "topic": "generatorB",
            "value": {
                "_gen": "boolean"
            },
            "localConfigs": {
                "maxEvents": 2
            }
        }
    ],
    "schedule": {
        "loop": true,
        "stages": [
            {
                "generators": [
                    "a"
                ]
            },
            {
                "generators": [
                    "b"
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "connections": {
        "kafka": {
            "kind": "kafka",
            "producerConfigs": {
                "bootstrap.servers": "localhost:9092",
                "key.serializer": "io.shadowtraffic.kafka.serdes.JsonSerializer",
                "value.serializer": "io.shadowtraffic.kafka.serdes.JsonSerializer"
            }
        }
    }
}
[
    1,
    2,
    1,
    false,
    false,
    1,
    2,
    3,
    false,
    true,
    3,
    2
]

Specification​

JSON schema​

{
    "type": "boolean"
}