xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError coming while calling countProjects() for Testlink 1.9.9

[shreyas-kj]

This is my Testlink test code (target's version is 1.9.9) -
import testlink
tls = testlink.TestLinkHelper().connect(testlink.TestlinkAPIClient)
tls.countProjects()

I've set Testlink server URL and devkey inside Testlinkhelper.py itself.

This is the error coming everytime I am running the script.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ttest.py", line 3, in
tls.countProjects()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/testlink/testlinkapi.py", line 376, in countProjects
projects=self.getProjects()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/testlink/testlinkdecorators.py", line 140, in wrapperReplaceTLResponseError
response = methodAPI(self, *argsPositional, **argsOptional)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/testlink/testlinkdecorators.py", line 112, in wrapperAddDevKey
return methodAPI(self, *argsPositional, **argsOptional)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/testlink/testlinkdecorators.py", line 100, in wrapperWithArgs
*argsPositional, **argsOptional)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/testlink/testlinkapigeneric.py", line 1514, in callServerWithPosArgs
response = self._callServer(methodNameAPI, argsOptional)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/testlink/testlinkapigeneric.py", line 1770, in _callServer
response = getattr(self.server.tl, methodNameAPI)(argsAPI)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1243, in call
return self.__send(self.__name, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1602, in __request
verbose=self.__verbose
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1283, in request
return self.single_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1316, in single_request
return self.parse_response(response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1487, in parse_response
p.feed(data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 558, in feed
self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: junk after document element: line 2, column 0

Help in this is highly appreciated.

[lczub]

Hello Shreyas-Kj,

well TL 1.9.9 is not the newest version , so it might be that you have to use an older api_client version, e.g. v0.4.8.
But the traceback loócks like your TL server returns an invalid xml structure. That is a known behaviour, when the TL php client runs into an internal sever error. If you want to debug this, take a look into How to check original exchanged XML data. But this debugging feature requires an api_client v0.6.2 or higher.

Regards Luiko

[lczub]

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