Artillery: Programmatic API

[mrchief]

I'm trying to develop a artillery runner which can run artillery json for arbitrary modules. I'm currently spawning child processes and executing the script via CLI. But doing all that in a cross platform way is a real pain and buggy.

Would be great to have the artillery commands exposed for consumption via Javascript. Specifically, something like:

var artillery = require('artillery')
artillery.run(...)
artillery.report(...)
...

[hassy]

I can see the use-case but this wouldn't be a high priority feature. I would personally rather continue improving the CLI to make using it in shell scripts easier.

That said, a nice PR that implements a simple solution that wouldn't need much maintenance would be gladly received. :)

[mrchief]

@hassy I think I was shortsighted on this one. Exposing the commands doesn't do much due to the way things are laid out right now.

What I was looking for is an ability to run tests through code, something like:

artillery.run({
  script: path/to/myscript | filestream
  options: ...
)
.on('phasesStarted', handler)
.on('stats', handler)
.on('complete', handler)

The way I see it is to refactor commands/runner and runner.js to expose such an API surface. I can work on a PR if you're open to this.

[mrchief]

It looks like artillery-core is the way to go for cases like this?