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LZhang
Frequent Contributor
16 years ago

Have soapUI hot load the settings.xml file or force the user to reload a project

Hi:

Is it possible to have soapUI hot load external changes to the settings.xml file in a composite project as we have encountered many incidents such that when user 1 makes in a change to a composite project and checks it into source control, and now user 2 gets the latest and checks it out to lock the project.  However user 2 forgets to reload the project after checking it out on his local machine, then he goes on making changes and checks it back to source control.  What happen is the changes user 1 makes will be overwritten by user 2. 

Therefore, if soapUI hot loads the external changes to settings.xml or forces a user to RELOAD his project, then changes from a previous user won't be overwritten.

Thanks,
Li Zhang

2 Replies

  • LZhang's avatar
    LZhang
    Frequent Contributor
    16 years ago
    Basically, soapui should do the same behavior as it does for groovy.
    Maybe for setting.xml, soapui can suggest merge if a newer file was downloaded because of tfs sync ?
  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
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    16 years ago
    Hello,

    Yes, this is a problem. Some people because of this lock all files for writing(locally)  except those they are working on.
    In future versions will have integration with some SCM ( subversion , cvs etc..).

    robert