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Trouble splitting an array in #PostConstruct Method of my Kafka SpringBoot Application

I'm creating a Kafka Springboot listener that tracks the state of an object. I have the kafka portion working and am able to listen to the topics. I am using a Tree map to map a string key that is the topic to an object. The topic name actually contains some information that I want to use to initialize the object. My question is this ( I apologize, I'm not very familiar with SpringBoot).
In my Post Construct method, I have a string array that is coming in called locoTopics. I've verified that strings are coming in and they are of the form "ignore.ignore.mark.id". The issue I'm running into is that when I try to split the string in the Post Construct method it appears to return null even though the string definitely contains the "." expression. I say it appears, because the program appears to jump forward and skip several lines of code. To be precise, when I debug. It appears to go from the "String [] locoArray = locoTopics[i].split("\.");" line to my Object constructor immediately and skip all the steps in between. Then it appears to jump in and out of the loop. I'm very confused why this is. Is this something related to SpringBoot that is happening or am I missing something in my code? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
public class InitTrackerReceiver {
// instance variables
Map mapr = new TreeMap<String, Locomotive>();
String[] locoTopics;
public List<String> m_failureCodes;
// Moved Functionality to get loco ids into separate class, Locomotive IDs now
// gets locoids
#Autowired
public LocomotiveIDs locomotiveIDs;
//This is where loco objects will be instantiated
#PostConstruct
public void initializeLocomotives() {
// grab loco topic strings and separate into a string array
locoTopics = locomotiveIDs.getLocoString();
// Go through the loco topics from application.properties and create a Loco
// object with that string as identifier
for (int i = 0; i < locoTopics.length; i++) {
String [] locoArray = locoTopics[i].split("\\.");
String markString = locoArray[2];
String scacString = "name";
String idString = locoArray[3];
mapr.put(locoTopics[i], new Locomotive(locoTopics[i], markString, scacString, idString));
}
}
#Value("#{'${failure.init.messagefields}'.split(',')}")
List<String> typesToFail;

I figured I'd go ahead and follow up with the answer. I have no clue how this happened, but the code that was in Eclipse that was in the debugger was not the same code that was running. I don't know if this was a bug in EGIT or Eclipse. It became apparent when I ran a Maven clean and my project would no longer launch. Whenever I tried to debug, it would launch and say that it couldn't find the main class, which was my Spring application launch class. I did a Maven Build and that seemed to get everything in sync. Then the code started working as expected.

Java replace variable value after first execution

does anyone know how to replace variable value after a program that changes it? I tried static variable before, but it doesn't save after you close the program.
For example
import java.lang.Math;
public class Main {
static int A1;
public static void main (String [] args) {
A1=(int) (1+Math.random()*10);
}
}
Let's say the first time the program is run, A1 holds a value of 5. Is it possible that next time the program is run, A1 still holds a value of 5 instead of zero? (before reaching the main method)
Thanks

Of course not, when the program exits the portion of memory it was using is freed for other programs. The only way to do it is writing to a file and restore the value from the file at the initialization of the program.

The most easy to do that in Java is to use Preferences API, the most easy way to use it is
prefs = Preferences.userRoot().node(this.getClass().getName());
String ID = "A1";
if (prefs.getInt(ID, -1)
prefs.putInt(ID, (int) (1+Math.random()*10));
A1 = prefs.getInt(ID, -1)
to get more info, juste Google "java preferences api"

JPL textToTerm only produces anonymous variables

I'm using JPL to do some SWI-Prolog queries in a Java program. When I want to create a new Query, I would like to be able to use jpl.Util.textToTerm to directly instanciate Terms from a user input, without parsing it myself.
The problem is that this method seems to always parse variable identifiers (i.e. something that starts with a capital letter) as anonymous variables (i.e. something that starts with _).
For example, jpl.Util.textToTerm("X") returns a jpl.Variable that has name _1 instead of X, which is obviously a problem since that means I won't be able to access any bindings after querying.
Creating a jpl.Query directly from a string, like new Query("reverse([1,2],X)") has the exact same problem.

_1 it's not an anonymous variable, so the problem is less important than it appears at first glance.
Variables with the same name (actually, the same variable) will have the same representation once returned from the JPL interface. Otherwise, you should file a bug of the mailing list...
You should use read_term family of predicates passing as option variable_names(Vars). For instance, on the REPL
?- read_term_from_atom('a(X,Y,X)',T,[variable_names(L)]).
T = a(_G1434, _G1435, _G1434),
L = ['X'=_G1434, 'Y'=_G1435].
edit a quick test reusing JPL test infrastructure (I've named the file TestQuery.java)
import java.util.Map;
import org.jpl7.Query;
import org.jpl7.Term;
public class TestQuery {
public static void main(String argv[]) {
Query q = new Query("X = 1");
Map<String, Term>[] solutions = q.allSolutions();
System.out.println(solutions[0]);
}
}
outputs
./run.sh
Compiling TestQuery
JPL demo: TestQuery
{X=1}
so, maybe I don't understand your problem in first place, sorry... Are you using an up-to-date installation ?

UFT/QTP: Count child objects in Java Internal Frame

I need to compare a string with all values of my text fields that are inside in a Java Internal Frame.
I already tried to use this code:
Dim getElement
Set getElement = Description.Create
getElement("class description").value = "text box"
'I tried different class names: "OracleTextField", "JavaEdit"
'getElement("micclass").value = "OracleTextField"
'getElement("micclass").value = "JavaEdit"
Set obj = Browser("xxxx").JavaApplet("Main").JavaInternalFrame("yyyy").ChildObjects(getElement)
total = obj.Count
' For loop goes here
total returns 0 all the time.
Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
If you need something more let me know.

I tried the following line and it works. Now i have total number of text fields available in Java internal frame.
getElement("to_class").value = "JavaEdit"
Following QTP documentation didn't help, but if you check your object properties inside your Object Repository you'll find all properties of each object. Instead of "micclass" try to use your property name. Mine was "to_class" with value "JavaEdit".
QTP Documentation explains why we should use "micclass" and differences between "micclass" and "Class Name". However none of them worked for me. I used "to_class" property and it works fine!
I'm working with UFT v12.02

How to keep an object in memory during development

My program has the following structure:
void main (String[] args) {
Object largeObject = longInitialization();
interestingLogic(largeObject);
}
The longInitialization code never changes during development. BUt whenever I change the interestingLogic, I have to run the program again and wait for the longInitialization to complete.
Unfortunately I cannot serialize largeObject because it is not Serializable and I don't have the code to it.
Is there a trick by which I can save the initialization time? Maybe, in some way save the state of the JVM just after initialization, and then always start from that state?

You can make little modification of code:
main(){
Object largeObject = longInitialization();
boolean debug = true;
while(debug){
interestingLogic(largeObject);
}
}
now run program in debug mode. Set breakpoint at interestingLogic call and use code hotswap debug mode in IDE. read more about hotswap in Eclipe: Java Hotswap with Eclipses and Remote Debugging on Local Machine
//Edit:
One more option. Just write mock of largeObject.

You will need a new object to call interestingLogic(largeObject). You can make changes to the new object while the driver program is waiting for user input.
void main (String[] args) {
Object largeObject = longInitialization();
boolean anotherTry = true;
String answer = "";
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
while (anotherTry) {
Object newobject = NewObject();
newobject.interestingLogic(largeObject).
System.out.print("Run Again Y/N");
answer = input.nextLine();
if (answer.equalsIgnoreCase("N")) {
anotherTry = false;
}
}
}

If the large object is not needed immediately, you could decorate it with a "lazy initializing" wrapper, and invoke the "longInitialization" just before you want to access it.
A second solution could be "cloning" it by marshalling/unmarshalling it to an xml file

Because you said "...cannot serialize largeObject..." there is no way to persist an object across JVM lifetimes (since you don't have the source). But, you have code that initializes/uses the largeOject. Create a serializable debugLargeObject that acts like the real largeObject and use debugLargeObject during development.

Not without a lot of work. You need a minor refactor, as shown by Guido, then you need to reload the NewObject class each time through the loop (or whatever). In other words, your VM needs to be able to remove the NewObject class, then reload it, each time you change the code.
There are commercial products which do this (see JRebel, for example). You can roll your own (see this StackOverflow topic: Unloading classes in java?). You can hotswap, if you're very careful about your interestingLogic. But ultimately, you need to swap out that class somehow.