Failed to load project from file

[josepaul]

Hi there,
i am unable to reload saved projects into soapUI. Beacuse of this i need to configure the project every time i restart soapUI. I tried saving different projects but no luck.For my collecgues its working all fine. I wont be able to share the project xml becuse of security concerns.
Thanks in advance.
Please find the error log from soapUI below

Tue Sep 24 14:50:54 IST 2013:ERROR:com.eviware.soapui.support.SoapUIException: Failed to load project from file [file:/C:/Users/a-5353/Documents/CapacityBookingExtService-soapui-project.xml]
com.eviware.soapui.support.SoapUIException: Failed to load project from file [file:/C:/Users/a-5353/Documents/CapacityBookingExtService-soapui-project.xml]
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlProject.loadProject(WsdlProject.java:426)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlProject.<init>(WsdlProject.java:244)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlProjectFactory.createNew(WsdlProjectFactory.java:62)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlProjectFactory.createNew(WsdlProjectFactory.java:24)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.WorkspaceImpl.reloadProject(WorkspaceImpl.java:539)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlProject.reload(WsdlProject.java:1337)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.actions.project.ReloadProjectAction.perform(ReloadProjectAction.java:62)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.actions.project.ReloadProjectAction.perform(ReloadProjectAction.java:28)
at com.eviware.soapui.support.action.swing.SwingActionDelegate.actionPerformed(SwingActionDelegate.java:89)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.io.CharConversionException: Malformed UTF-8 character: 0xe2 0x80 0x3f
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.UTF8XMLDecoder.decode(UTF8XMLDecoder.java:108)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.XMLStreamReader$FastStreamDecoder.read(XMLStreamReader.java:762)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.XMLStreamReader.read(XMLStreamReader.java:162)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.yy_refill(PiccoloLexer.java:3474)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.yynextChar(PiccoloLexer.java:3721)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.parseCdataSection(PiccoloLexer.java:2671)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.yylex(PiccoloLexer.java:4850)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.yylex(Piccolo.java:1290)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.yyparse(Piccolo.java:1400)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.parse(Piccolo.java:714)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale$SaxLoader.load(Locale.java:3454)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:1276)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:1263)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.schema.SchemaTypeLoaderBase.parse(SchemaTypeLoaderBase.java:345)
at com.eviware.soapui.config.SoapuiProjectDocumentConfig$Factory.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlProject.loadProject(WsdlProject.java:333)
... 46 more

[nmrao]

Hmm.. strange.
From the log, looks your using Windows family OS. Not sure if soapui version is same yours vs your team mates.
If so, may be you can try re-installing it.

[josepaul]

Thanks for the response.
But my colleagues are using same OS as mine. Besides this was working for me some time back and one fine day (actually a bad day!) it all went wrong!!
Any other suggestions. I even tried copying their installation folder without luck.

Regards
Jose

[josepaul · Accepted solution]

The problem seems to be resolved. I did converted the project.xml file to UTF-8 using notepad++. It worked like a charm.
Is there an option to make the default encoding to UTF-8 in SoapUI settings?

[nmrao]

Thank you for sharing.
I think that is subjective, and depends on request/case basis - people might use different encodings for diferent requests or tests. Are you talking about default value?

[josepaul]

Yes.
Is there any way to set default encoding to UTF-8 in SoapUI?

[emduve]

I have the same problem. The XML file of the project is, in my case, already saved using UTF8 encoding (going by what I can see when editing it with Notepad++), but I cannot reload it.

I need to edit the XML with Notepad++, encode it in ANSI and encode it another time in UTF8 to be able to load it again in SoapUI...