The initial load testing application was rather limited, and though of use, it did not give a realistic picture with so many requests thrown at once at the server application without waiting for a response.
The new version of the load testing application will make a single HTTP call and await the result before calling the next. This takes place in the main.dart source file. Note that the main function itself in now marked as async. The await command is used in the calling loop of the main function, as follows:
main() async {
print("Starting...");
var url = "http://127.0.0.1:8080/index.html";
var hc = new HttpClient();
var watch = new Stopwatch();
int attemptedRequests = 200;
print("Starting testing...");
watch.start();
for (int i = 0; i < attemptedRequests; i++) {
await callWebPage(hc, url, i, watch);
}
watch.stop();
print("${watch.elapsed.inMilliseconds}");
}The callWebPage method needs to be marked as async too...