Feature Request: Cause requests to be ignored from stats collection

I’d like to be able to annotate some requests to be ignored from collection in stats.

(The use case is that we have to create/delete models during setup and teardown, and since we don’t have access to the DB this has to be done through the API. These requests shouldn’t show up in the stats at the end. I know it doesn’t make sense to ignore these since they’re part of the “lifecycle” of the task set, but that’s the ask.)

Here’s what I’ve got so far:

IGNORE_REQUEST = False

def conditional_request_success(*args, **kwargs):
    if not IGNORE_REQUEST:
        return on_request_success(*args, **kwargs)


def conditional_request_failure(*args, **kwargs):
    if not IGNORE_REQUEST:
        return on_request_failure(*args, **kwargs)


events.request_success -= on_request_success
events.request_success += conditional_request_success
events.request_failure -= on_request_failure
events.request_failure += conditional_request_failure


class IgnoreRequestContextManager(object):
    def __enter__(self):
        global IGNORE_REQUEST
        IGNORE_REQUEST = True

    def __exit__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        global IGNORE_REQUEST
        IGNORE_REQUEST = False


ignore_request = IgnoreRequestContextManager

And then I can:

    def setup(self):
        with ignore_request():
            self.login()
            self.create_setup_models()
            ...

This is obviously not thread-safe of course. I can update it to use threadlocals, but is this the best way to go about this in the absence of an official feature?

[heyman]

Could you make the HTTP requests - that you don’t want to track stats for - with just Requests (or some other client), instead of using the Locust client? Something like:

import requests
requests.post(...)

Alternatively, you could reset all the stats once the setup has completed (though that method wouldn’t work well if you want to exclude tear down requests that are made after the requests that you want to track):

from locust.stats import global_stats
global_stats.clear_all()

[cyberw]

Closing due to lack of activity. Feel free to reopen if this is important to you.