What is ReadyAPI 4.3.0 trying to tell me with this error it emits when loading my composite project. I don’t have any properties named “message”. I do have about 650 User-specific properties in various testcase files, about 451 of which are intentionally empty of values. So why do I get 13 instances of this error?
Fri Oct 30 13:11:19 PDT 2026: ERROR: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "String.getBytes(String)" because "message" is null
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "String.getBytes(String)" because "message" is null
at com.eviware.soapui.settings.AESCipher.encrypt(AESCipher.java:35)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.UserSpecificProperties.saveCurrentStateToConfig(UserSpecificProperties.java:168)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.WorkspaceImpl.saveWorkspaceConfig(WorkspaceImpl.java:631)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.WorkspaceImpl.save(WorkspaceImpl.java:618)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.WorkspaceImpl.save(WorkspaceImpl.java:580)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.WorkspaceImpl.afterProjectImport(WorkspaceImpl.java:901)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.WorkspaceImpl.afterProjectImport(WorkspaceImpl.java:891)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.WorkspaceImpl.importNewProject(WorkspaceImpl.java:775)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.WorkspaceImpl.reloadProject(WorkspaceImpl.java:1010)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.WorkspaceImpl.reloadProject(WorkspaceImpl.java:989)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.WorkspaceImpl.openProject(WorkspaceImpl.java:1129)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.actions.project.OpenProjectAction.perform(OpenProjectAction.java:41)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.actions.project.OpenProjectAction.perform(OpenProjectAction.java:1)
at com.eviware.soapui.support.action.swing.SwingActionDelegate.actionPerformed(SwingActionDelegate.java:155)
at com.eviware.soapui.support.action.swing.DefaultActionList.performDefaultAction(DefaultActionList.java:97)
at com.eviware.soapui.ui.TreeMouseListener$1.run(TreeMouseListener.java:318)
at java.desktop/java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:318)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:773)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:720)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:714)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:400)
at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:87)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:742)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:203)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:124)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:113)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:109)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:90)