How to avoid soapUI exceptions during startup?

[mmoser18]

After upgrading to soapUI v5.3.0 I double-checked the log file (since I am using a couple of self-written extensions) and found several exception entries regarding a  java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.eviware.soapui.plugins.auto.factories.AutoImportMethodFactory - see below.

I don't think they do any harm but I would still like to avoid those.

I faintly recall that I originally also had these under 5.2.1 where I resolved that by copying the .jar files from "C:\Users\<user>\.soapuios\plugins" to "C:\Program Files\SmartBear\SoapUI-5.2.1\bin\ext"

I tried he same with v5.3.0 but that didn't resolve this.

Any advice?

Regards,

Michael

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2017-01-10 12:01:13,684 INFO  [PluginManager] Adding plugin from [C:\Users\moserm\.soapuios\plugins\ready-uxm-plugin-1.0.1-dist.jar]
2017-01-10 12:01:13,684 INFO  [PluginManager] Adding plugin from [C:\Users\moserm\.soapuios\plugins\soapui-swagger-plugin-2.2-dist.jar]
2017-01-10 12:01:14,318 ERROR [SoapUI] An error occurred [com.eviware.soapui.plugins.auto.factories.AutoImportMethodFactory], see error log for details
2017-01-10 12:01:14,318 ERROR [errorlog] java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.eviware.soapui.plugins.auto.factories.AutoImportMethodFactory
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.eviware.soapui.plugins.auto.factories.AutoImportMethodFactory
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
 at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
 at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
 at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.LoaderBase.loadAutoFactories(LoaderBase.java:112)
 at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.LoaderBase.loadFactories(LoaderBase.java:80)
 at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginLoader.loadPluginFactories(PluginLoader.java:141)
 at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginLoader.loadPlugin(PluginLoader.java:104)
 at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginLoader.loadPlugin(PluginLoader.java:54)
 at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginManager.doInstallPlugin(PluginManager.java:141)
 at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginManager.access$600(PluginManager.java:43)
 at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginManager$LoadPluginsTask.computeSequentially(PluginManager.java:420)
 at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginManager$LoadPluginsTask.compute(PluginManager.java:377)
 at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginManager$LoadPluginsTask.compute(PluginManager.java:365)
 at java.util.concurrent.RecursiveTask.exec(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask.doExec(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinWorkerThread.execTask(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.scan(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.work(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(Unknown Source)
2017-01-10 12:01:14,320 ERROR [SoapUI] An error occurred [com.eviware.soapui.plugins.auto.factories.AutoDiscoveryMethodFactory], see error log for details

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[rupert_anderson]

Hi Michael,

Assuming you don't want to use any of those packaged plugins, an easy way to remove those AutoImportMethodFactory exceptions is to either delete or move the jar files in:

C:\Users\moserm\.soapuios\plugins

This will work on SoapUI 5.3.0, it just appears that you may have forgotten to move two of the plugin files: 

2017-01-10 12:01:13,684 INFO  [PluginManager] Adding plugin from [C:\Users\moserm\.soapuios\plugins\ready-uxm-plugin-1.0.1-dist.jar]
2017-01-10 12:01:13,684 INFO  [PluginManager] Adding plugin from [C:\Users\moserm\.soapuios\plugins\soapui-swagger-plugin-2.2-dist.jar]

Move those (not necessarily to /ext) and you should get a clean startup again.

Longer term, it would probably be better if these exceptions were handled and maybe shown as warnings. Could be a feature request, I could even pick it up and do it if that seemed like an ok solution.

Regards,

Rup

[KarelHusa]

I find this error really annoying, so I posted a request:

https://community.smartbear.com/t5/SoapUI-Feature-Requests/Resolving-quot-An-error-occurred-com-eviw...

Karel

[guoguangchen]

I have similar thing, my soapUI is 5.3.0, my machine is Mac OS Mojave.  I used to be able to start up soapUI, but I cannot now.

I follow the above suggestion to move the plugin jars from gchen/.soapuios/plugins directory to soapUI5.3.0/Content/java/app/bin/ext directory and I still cannot start up soapUI.

The soapUI-errors.log has following errors:

ERROR [errorlog] java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.eviware.soapui.plugins.auto.factories.AutoDiscoveryMethodFactory
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.eviware.soapui.plugins.auto.factories.AutoDiscoveryMethodFactory
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:190)
at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.LoaderBase.loadAutoFactories(LoaderBase.java:112)
at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.LoaderBase.loadFactories(LoaderBase.java:80)
at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginLoader.loadPluginFactories(PluginLoader.java:141)
at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginLoader.loadPlugin(PluginLoader.java:104)
at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginLoader.loadPlugin(PluginLoader.java:54)
at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginManager.doInstallPlugin(PluginManager.java:141)
at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginManager.access$600(PluginManager.java:43)
at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginManager$LoadPluginsTask.computeSequentially(PluginManager.java:420)
at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginManager$LoadPluginsTask.compute(PluginManager.java:377)
at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginManager$LoadPluginsTask.compute(PluginManager.java:382)
at com.eviware.soapui.plugins.PluginManager$LoadPluginsTask.compute(PluginManager.java:365)
at java.util.concurrent.RecursiveTask.exec(RecursiveTask.java:93)
at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinWorkerThread.execTask(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:604)
at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.scan(ForkJoinPool.java:784)
at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.work(ForkJoinPool.java:646)
at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:398)

Any suggestion how to fix it?

Thanks a lot !