JMeter Plugins site is down

[NaveenKumar Namachivayam]

Hi Team,

It looks like https://jmeter-plugins.org having trouble with PHP. Could you please look into it? 

Thanks!

[Selvakumar Nagendran]

Any updates on this? 

Since the site is broken, all taurus orchestrated tests that rely on the above to install plug-ins will break.

$ sh PluginsManagerCMD.sh install-for-jmx ./test.jmx
2022-04-01 12:17:23,058 INFO o.j.r.PluginManagerCMD: Command is: install-for-jmx
2022-04-01 12:17:23,107 INFO o.j.r.JARSourceHTTP: Requesting https://jmeter-plugins.org/repo/?installID=mac_os_x-test
ERROR: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to perform cmdline operation: Invalid JSON String
*** Problem's technical details go below ***
Home directory was detected as: /.../jmeter-taurus/5.4.1/lib
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to perform cmdline operation: Invalid JSON String
        at org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManagerCMD.processParams(PluginManagerCMD.java:100)
        at kg.apc.cmdtools.PluginsCMD.processParams(PluginsCMD.java:62)
        at kg.apc.cmdtools.PluginsCMD.processParams(PluginsCMD.java:21)
        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 kg.apc.cmd.UniversalRunner.main(UniversalRunner.java:115)
Caused by: net.sf.json.JSONException: Invalid JSON String
        at net.sf.json.JSONSerializer.toJSON(JSONSerializer.java:143)
        at net.sf.json.JSONSerializer.toJSON(JSONSerializer.java:103)
        at org.jmeterplugins.repository.JARSourceHTTP.getJSON(JARSourceHTTP.java:172)
        at org.jmeterplugins.repository.JARSourceHTTP.getRepositories(JARSourceHTTP.java:276)
        at org.jmeterplugins.repository.JARSourceHTTP.getRepo(JARSourceHTTP.java:304)
        at org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManager.load(PluginManager.java:71)
        at org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManagerCMD.getPluginsManager(PluginManagerCMD.java:110)
        at org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManagerCMD.installPluginsForJmx(PluginManagerCMD.java:120)
        at org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManagerCMD.processParams(PluginManagerCMD.java:79)
        ... 7 more

[Keith Warno]

Chiming in from BlazeMeter Support.  Looking forward to a fix for the PHP issues with the Plugins Manager site.  Thanks!

[Selvakumar Nagendran]

Looks like, this may be a side effect of composer download URL throwing 404 in the Dockerfile 

https://github.com/undera/jmeter-plugins/blob/42979a677ac607257670d1f129fd677f1b88a9a2/site/Dockerfile#L11

Replacing with the 2.2.11 on my local machine fixed the issue.

RUN php -r "copy('https://github.com/composer/composer/releases/download/2.2.11/composer.phar', 'composer.phar');"