Bruno crashes on large API responses

[OpenOrangeData]

I have checked the following:

• [x] I have searched existing issues and found nothing related to my issue.

This bug is:

• [ ] making Bruno unusable for me
• [x] slowing me down but I'm able to continue working
• [x] annoying
• [ ] this feature was working in a previous version but is broken in the current release.

Bruno version

2.2.0

Operating System

Windows 11

Describe the bug

Bruno crashes repeatedly when I get a large response from an API. Once I send the request, Bruno counts up the seconds until about 10-11s, then freezes and eventually crashes completely.

I had similar problems with other APIs: big payload, Bruno freezes (but doesn't crash entirely), and I have to force quit via task manager. I was wondering if it's related to the rendering/preview of the results (mentioned in #4290 ) which is why I already commented there.

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.bru file to reproduce the bug

.bru file type seems not to be allowed by github, so I'm pasting its content:

meta { name: Siri-SX type: http seq: 1 }

get { url: https://api.opentransportdata.swiss/la/siri-sx body: none auth: bearer }

auth:bearer { token: eyJvcmciOiI2NDA2NTFhNTIyZmEwNTAwMDEyOWJiZTEiLCJpZCI6IjJiZjI2ZGI2MGIyMzQxYjA5NTZlYWRiYWRmZGM4M2UzIiwiaCI6Im11cm11cjEyOCJ9 }

Screenshots/Live demo link

[rreyn-bruno]

Also occurring on Mac. I believe Postman and Insomnia download the response and look at the size before displaying it on the ui and if it’s too large it automatically asks to save it to a file instead of displaying it.

[anusree-bruno]

JIRA

[Pragadesh44-Bruno]

Hey @OpenOrangeData, we've made a fix for this issue in our latest release. It now checks for a data size threshold (10MB) and prompts the user to either download the response as a file or view it in Bruno. For very large responses (over 50MB), Bruno might hang, but it won’t crash.

Please download the latest version for the fix.

Feature available from: v2.6.0 PR for the fix: #4866

Thanks!

[Pragadesh44-Bruno]

Closing this issue as completed

[OpenOrangeData]

@Pragadesh44-Bruno thank you for the fix. I just tested the initial use case mentioned above - with mixed results:

1. Yes, Bruno doesn't crash anymore! So.. technically, the issue of Bruno crashing is solved.
2. In case of a response of a large response of 65.5 MB is had to wait for about 24 minutes until the warning message appeared. Not that great from a UX perspective - performance is already degraded substantially before the warning for potentially degraded performance is issued.

Having said that, for smaller responses (I think it was 10-20 MB) it worked fine and it's great to have three options to choose from.

[Pragadesh44-Bruno]

@OpenOrangeData, we’ll definitely check this and work on improving it. Thanks for the feedback!

[castdrian]

same here, industrial api management, response body of approx. 122mb

[zib-ctrl]

For me, a 1MB JSON response takes several minutes to be displayed in the GUI. The application hangs for that long. It's unusable for me. I'm using version 2.15 on Windows 11.