Cannot open project after upgrade to 8.1.0 Build 208 (ParseKeywordException)

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Please let us know what you are using Katalon Studio for?

  1. I have currently applied Katalon Studio in my project

How would your work be affected if this issue has not been resolved?

  1. I cannot continue my job and have to work on something else while awaiting your response

Operating System

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Katalon Studio Version

Version 8.1.0 Build 208

Katalon Studio logs

  • Windows logs folder: \config.metadata.log

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I have been unable to open my project since I upgraded to Version 8.1.0. Katalon attempts to load the project and ends up with the following error:

Unable to open project.
Reason: ParseKeywordException

Details:
com.kms.katalon.custom.improvement.parser.ParseKeywordException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid JSON syntax. Root cause: com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Expected ‘:’ at line 2 column 10 path $.<<<<<<<
at com.kms.katalon.custom.improvement.parser.ProjectCustomKeywordsParser.parseAllKeywordFilesInProject(ProjectCustomKeywordsParser.java:84)
at com.kms.katalon.custom.improvement.parser.ImprovedCustomKeywordParser.parseProjectCustomKeywords(ImprovedCustomKeywordParser.java:138)
at com.kms.katalon.custom.improvement.parser.ImprovedCustomKeywordParser.parseCustomKeywords(ImprovedCustomKeywordParser.java:57)
at com.kms.katalon.controller.ImprovedKeywordControllerDelegate.parseAllCustomKeywords(ImprovedKeywordControllerDelegate.java:41)
at com.kms.katalon.controller.KeywordController.parseAllCustomKeywords(KeywordController.java:165)
at com.kms.katalon.controller.ProjectController.openProjectForUI(ProjectController.java:129)
at com.kms.katalon.composer.project.handlers.OpenProjectHandler$1.run(OpenProjectHandler.java:166)
at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:122)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid JSON syntax. Root cause: com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Expected ‘:’ at line 2 column 10 path $.<<<<<<<
at com.kms.katalon.core.util.internal.JsonUtil.fromJson(JsonUtil.java:94)
at com.kms.katalon.custom.improvement.cache.ParseKeywordCacheContent.fromFile(ParseKeywordCacheContent.java:54)
at com.kms.katalon.custom.improvement.cache.ParseKeywordCacheFile.loadContent(ParseKeywordCacheFile.java:35)
at com.kms.katalon.custom.improvement.cache.ParseKeywordCacheFile.getOrCreate(ParseKeywordCacheFile.java:64)
at com.kms.katalon.custom.improvement.parser.ProjectCustomKeywordsParser.internallyParseKeywordFile(ProjectCustomKeywordsParser.java:92)
at com.kms.katalon.custom.improvement.parser.ProjectCustomKeywordsParser.parseAllKeywordFilesInProject(ProjectCustomKeywordsParser.java:78)
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At first, please make a zip of your project as backup.

I think that somethiing is wrong in some file in the <projectdir>/.cache folder.

  1. You want to stop Katalon Studio.
  2. You want to delete <projectDir>/.cache directory somehow. On mac, use Finder. On Windows, use Explorer. Or you may want to " rm -rf .cache" in the commandline.
  3. Then restart Katalon Studio, reopen the project.

Do you use git? In the .gitignore file, are you ignoring the .cache/ directory? If not, you should ignore it.

In the backup zip, do you find any file in the .cache directory containing any <<<<<< String? To me, this character sequence seems to be the marker of Merge conflicts inserted by Git.

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Hi @lefak.fakiy,

Please share the Customs keyword folder with us

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Initially I renamed the Keyword file and was able to continue working. But this morning, the issue came up again. I have followed your suggestions and was able to successfully get back into Katalon.

This issue has only happened since the upgrade. I wonder what has changed.

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we are not ignoring .cache/ in our gitignore file. I’ll be adding that to see if there are any improvements in our load time (which has progressively gotten slower as our project grows).

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Please find file attached.

Keywords.zip (14.2 KB)

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Any latest update guys? I am also facing the same issue

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