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mmoser18
Frequent Contributor
9 years ago
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How to call Java code from soapUI?

Hi - this may be a Groovy question rather than a real soapUI question, but soapUI is the reason I am now digging into Groovy, so please bear with me:   I am trying to get a bit more information why...
  • rupert_anderson's avatar
    rupert_anderson
    9 years ago

    Hi,

     

    No problem, happy if I can help, but it sounds like there may be a deeper problem as you are pointing out...

     

    What you are saying does sound reasonable in that possibly the SoapUI Java memory usage is an area that may be affecting the ability to run your regex... don't expect the response is the problem...

     

    As you may be aware to change the Java options for SoapUI you can alter the soapui.sh (or .bat) script - refer to http://www.soapui.org/working-with-soapui/improving-memory-usage.html for more details.

     

    Guess you may try increasing the -Xss stack space parameter as you said...

     

    Let us know how you get on please, possibly it would be good to share your regex if you're happy too, just incase that helps or attracts other useful advice...

     

    Cheers,

    Rupert

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rupert_anderson
Valued Contributor

Hi,

 

No problem, happy if I can help, but it sounds like there may be a deeper problem as you are pointing out...

 

What you are saying does sound reasonable in that possibly the SoapUI Java memory usage is an area that may be affecting the ability to run your regex... don't expect the response is the problem...

 

As you may be aware to change the Java options for SoapUI you can alter the soapui.sh (or .bat) script - refer to http://www.soapui.org/working-with-soapui/improving-memory-usage.html for more details.

 

Guess you may try increasing the -Xss stack space parameter as you said...

 

Let us know how you get on please, possibly it would be good to share your regex if you're happy too, just incase that helps or attracts other useful advice...

 

Cheers,

Rupert

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mmoser18
Frequent Contributor
9 years ago

Thanks for helping!

I meanwhile found the SoapUI-5.2.0.vmoptions file, added a "-Xss3m" to it and - BINGO! - things are working perfectly now!

 

Gee, this has cost me almost 2 days of work because I searched each and every corner but couldn't find any reason why this didn't work! The fact that Groovy/soapUIs silently swallows all exceptions without giving any clue or feedback wasn't exactly very helpful in this journey...

 

BTW: my rationale for choosing 3m (3 MByte) were:

with 1m I still got stack overflows.

with 2m they were gone - things worked!

So I decided to use 3m to leave some headroom for really large messages. But I didn't want to set this to 5m or more since soapUI presumably creates LOTs of threads and setting this too high may quickly lead to other memory issues.

 

So, I am a happy camper now!

 

Cheers and thanks again,

Michael

 

  • rupert_anderson's avatar
    rupert_anderson
    Valued Contributor
    9 years ago

    Hi Michael,

     

    Nice one! Well done on fixing it and sharing the details, you never know, it could save someone else 2 days! Quite an intereseting learning really, the demands of complex regexes etc! :-)

     

    One last thing, if you're happy to, please mark the post as solved so that others know its fixed.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Rup