Proposal: extra properties in the targets file

[falconandy]

Proposal

Ability to pass extra properties in the targets file and these properties shouldn't be passed to the final query but they should be passed to the results file.

Background

I need to fine-track the results of specific targets in order to test database indices. For this reason, I need to insert basic key=value extra infos (for example: query_type=like,keyword_type=random), in the targets file, and I should get these infos in the results file. It will help me to get more infos.

The suggested final format would be, for json, adding a property "extra": {"method":"GET","url":"http://goku","body":"UHVuY2gh","header":{"Content-Type":["text/plain"]},"extra":{"firstkey":"firstvalue","secondkey":"secondvalue"}}

And for the HTTP format, comments beginning with "extra":

GET http://user:password@goku:9090/path/to
X-Account-ID: 8675309
#extra:key=value

DELETE http://goku:9090/path/to/remove
Confirmation-Token: 90215
Authorization: Token DEADBEEF
#extra:firstkey=firstvalue
#extra:secondkey=secondvalue

Workarounds

Right now, the only known way is to separate the attacks and give them a different name each time, or to use the X-Vegeta-Seq header but we can't trace it in the results file.

Proposed Implementation

fork https://github.com/falconandy/vegeta commit https://github.com/falconandy/vegeta/commit/ee914c1d1fd854bce2daa4cc904034987a915cb0