QAF: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Key for add operation must be defined

Question

Environment: QAF Java: 8 TestNG: 6.10 Appium: 1.18.0-1 IVY ivy.xml BDDTestFactory Android Device: OS 9

On trying to run any scenario on Android device, it is throwing below exception. It works fine on iOS Device & this was working fine even on Android previously.

<dependencies>
    <dependency org="com.qmetry" name="qaf" rev="3.0.0-RC3"/>
    <dependency org="com.qmetry" name="qaf-support" rev="3.0.0-RC3"/>
    <dependency org="com.qmetry" name="qaf-support-ws" rev="3.0.0-RC3"/>
    <dependency org="org.aspectj" name="aspectjtools" rev="1.9.5"/>
    <dependency org="org.aspectj" name="aspectjweaver" rev="1.9.5" />
    <dependency org="ant-contrib" name="ant-contrib" rev="1.0b3"/>
    <dependency org="io.appium" name="java-client" rev="7.3.0"/>
    <dependency org="org.seleniumhq.selenium" name="selenium-java" rev="3.141.59" force="true"/>
</dependencies>

Exception:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Key for add operation must be defined!
    at org.apache.commons.configuration.tree.DefaultExpressionEngine.prepareAdd(DefaultExpressionEngine.java:419)
    at org.apache.commons.configuration.HierarchicalConfiguration.addPropertyDirect(HierarchicalConfiguration.java:383)
    at org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractHierarchicalFileConfiguration.addPropertyDirect(AbstractHierarchicalFileConfiguration.java:146)
    at com.qmetry.qaf.automation.util.PropertyUtil.addPropertyDirect(PropertyUtil.java:107)
    at org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractConfiguration.addPropertyValues(AbstractConfiguration.java:422)
    at org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractConfiguration.copy(AbstractConfiguration.java:1241)
    at com.qmetry.qaf.automation.util.PropertyUtil.loadFile(PropertyUtil.java:215)
    at com.qmetry.qaf.automation.util.PropertyUtil.load(PropertyUtil.java:202)
    at com.qmetry.qaf.automation.core.ConfigurationManager.addBundle(ConfigurationManager.java:193)
    at com.qmetry.qaf.automation.core.ConfigurationManager.addBundle(ConfigurationManager.java:160)
    at com.qmetry.qaf.automation.core.ConfigurationManager$PropertyConfigurationListener.configurationChanged(ConfigurationManager.java:418)
    at org.apache.commons.configuration.event.EventSource.fireEvent(EventSource.java:249)
    at org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractConfiguration.copy(AbstractConfiguration.java:1247)
    at com.qmetry.qaf.automation.util.PropertyUtil.addAll(PropertyUtil.java:180)
    at com.qmetry.qaf.automation.core.ConfigurationManager.addAll(ConfigurationManager.java:285)
    at com.qmetry.qaf.automation.testng.TestNGTestCase.setupTest(TestNGTestCase.java:80)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:104)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurationMethod(Invoker.java:515)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:217)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:144)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.beforeRun(TestRunner.java:656)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:624)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:387)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:382)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:340)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:289)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1293)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1218)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1133)
    at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1104)
    at com.intellij.rt.testng.IDEARemoteTestNG.run(IDEARemoteTestNG.java:66)
    at com.intellij.rt.testng.RemoteTestNGStarter.main(RemoteTestNGStarter.java:109)

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 26 '20 at 14:10

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This is most probably because of property without key. Check your each property files line by line and remove unnecessary lines. Sometimes it observed that after checkout with merge conflict file containing conflict information that needs to be cleaned up.

answered Aug 26 '20 at 14:10

user861594

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Thanks! The issue was, there were some special characters(conflict information) in android.locator.properties. This got added because of merge conflicts. Those special characters were removed & after that this issue got resolved. – Vishwathma Aug 26 '20 at 16:34

QAF: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Key for add operation must be defined

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