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Add ability for Pacts to be used in integration tests

Pascal Blunk

Hey there,

we just started using pacts. Historically we've been using wiremock to mock other microservices when testing a microservice as a whole. It would be great if we could just use the test data we use for our pacts to run such tests.

March 27, 2023

Matt Fellows

I'd recommend opening a discussion in the #pact-jvm channel (https://pact-foundation.slack.com/archives/C9UN99H24) in our slack workspace (slack.pact.io)

Matt Fellows

No worries! I'm sure you could take inspiration from the pact-stub-server code base if you needed to port to JVM. There are likely models etc. that could be pulled from Pact JVM, given it already knows how to be a mock server.

Matt Fellows

Could you use the pact files and the pact stub server for this purpose?

https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-stub-server / https://docs.pact.io/getting_started/stubs

Pascal Blunk

Matt Fellows: That's actually awesome. Thanks for pointing it out to me. Anyhow it would be great to have some Java API for it (maybe using it with testcontainers https://www.testcontainers.org/ would be enough). I'll see if I can contribute in any meaningful way. Thank you!