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sergiy's avatar
sergiy
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

NullPointerException with mock and TomCat

Hi, could anybody please help me?   About my problem - I have created mock project, after that I have deployed it as a war file to the TomCat server. But when I'm trying to open mock web applicatio...
rupert_anderson's avatar
rupert_anderson
Valued Contributor

Hi,

 

Thats interesting, I've never seen that issue before.

 

When you build a mock war it does reference your soapui-settings.xml, but I haven't noticed the settings file being included in the war, only the project file. I guess it might be worth understanding how the property you're talking about gets transferred to the mock war.

 

I take it your mock is fairly ordinary? I have never had any proxy requirement for a mock, and don't understand why a proxy is relevant at all given that the mock is hosted locally. Trouble is, the whole of SoapUI including all its dependencies gets packaged in the mock war, so it could be the proxy code is somehow being triggered.. strange.

 

Regards,

Rupert

sergiy's avatar
sergiy
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

Hi, thank you for your reply.

 

About "soapui-settings.xml": I have created many variants of war file, with checked "Include Global Settings" and without, but I can't get rid of this error. If I check "Include Global Settings" then the settings file is appears in "\WEB-INF\soapui" otherwise not. I mean eventually, in any case, in the local and in the global settings files there are everywhere "proxyEnabled" is set to false, but the error still occurs.

 

Another interesting point is that when I'm opening mocked service web interface for the first time, then I can see an error I have written. And when I refresh the page, then error text is changing to:

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet SoapUIMockServlet threw exception
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:620)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:349)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:783)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:745)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1455)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

root cause

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.http.HttpClientSupport
com.eviware.soapui.DefaultSoapUICore.initSettings(DefaultSoapUICore.java:361)
com.eviware.soapui.DefaultSoapUICore.init(DefaultSoapUICore.java:129)
com.eviware.soapui.DefaultSoapUICore.<init>(DefaultSoapUICore.java:114)
com.eviware.soapui.mockaswar.MockAsWarServlet$MockServletSoapUICore.<init>(MockAsWarServlet.java:317)
com.eviware.soapui.mockaswar.MockAsWarServlet.init(MockAsWarServlet.java:71)
javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:620)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:349)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:783)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:745)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1455)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

 

P.S. I have also tried to deploy another mock from the example on the smartbear site (about currency exchange), but got the same problem.

 

P.S.P.S. it could be not a proxy problem, but anyway I need to fix it, and I would be appreciated for any help.

 

Thank you!

  • rupert_anderson's avatar
    rupert_anderson
    Valued Contributor
    9 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Which Tomcat and Java are you using?

    It seems there might be some kind of classpath issue. Where there any other errors when you first make a request to the mock? You should see SoapUI startup in the logs, does that exception come straight away?

     

    Thanks,

    Rup

    • sergiy's avatar
      sergiy
      Occasional Contributor
      9 years ago

      I'm using the last version of TomCat (9 version) and the last one of JRE. More accurately about Java I would be able to write tomorrow.

       

      About other errors during the first request - tomorrow I will provide stack trace.

       

      You should see SoapUI startup in the logs

      You mean TomCat log file? Or Soap UI has it own logs?

       

      Thank you!

      • rupert_anderson's avatar
        rupert_anderson
        Valued Contributor
        9 years ago

        Hi,

         

        OK, I guess its possible that there is a compatibility issue with Tomcat 9 or the latest java version, let me know the versions and I'll try out one of my mock war files.

         

        Because the mock war essentially bundles all the SoapUI jars (under WEB-INF/lib), when you first hit the mock with a request, you should see similar SoapUI logging in the tomcat log to the logging that you see under the 'SoapUI Log' in the UI tab - like:

         

        19:59:35,187 WARN  [SoapUI] Could not find jfxrt.jar. Internal browser will be disabled.
19:59:35,187 WARN  [SoapUI] Missing folder [/Users/test/apache-tomcat-7.0.54/webapps/restmock/ext] for external libraries
19:59:35,357 INFO  [DefaultSoapUICore] initialized soapui-settings from [/Users/test/soapui-settings.xml]
294 [http-bio-9080-exec-1] INFO org.reflections.Reflections - Reflections took 177 ms to scan 13 urls, producing 341 keys and 1458 values 
19:59:35,935 INFO  [PluginManager] Adding plugin from [/Users/test/.soapuios/plugins/soapui-swagger-plugin-2.2-dist.jar]
620 [ForkJoinPool-1-worker-1] INFO org.reflections.Reflections - Reflections took 91 ms to scan 13 urls, producing 341 keys and 1458 values 
1046 [ForkJoinPool-1-worker-1] INFO org.reflections.Reflections - Reflections took 420 ms to scan 1 urls, producing 1593 keys and 6530 values
...

        If not, the war may not even be deploying properly.

         

        Thanks,

        Rup