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Pact Spring/JUnit5 Support

This module extends the base Pact JUnit5 module. See that for more details.

Dependency

The combined library (JUnit5 + Spring) is available on maven central using:

group-id = au.com.dius.pact.provider artifact-id = junit5spring version-id = 4.4.x

Usage

For writing Spring Pact verification tests with JUnit 5, there is an JUnit 5 Invocation Context Provider that you can use with the @TestTemplate annotation. This will generate a test for each interaction found for the pact files for the provider.

To use it, add the @Provider and @ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class) and one of the pact source annotations to your test class (as per a JUnit 5 test), then add a method annotated with @TestTemplate and @ExtendWith(PactVerificationSpringProvider.class) that takes a PactVerificationContext parameter. You will need to call verifyInteraction() on the context parameter in your test template method.

For example:

@ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class)
@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.DEFINED_PORT)
@Provider("Animal Profile Service")
@PactBroker
public class ContractVerificationTest {

@TestTemplate
@ExtendWith(PactVerificationSpringProvider.class)
void pactVerificationTestTemplate(PactVerificationContext context) {
context.verifyInteraction();
}

}

You will now be able to setup all the required properties using the Spring context, e.g. creating an application YAML file in the test resources:

pactbroker:
host: your.broker.host
auth:
username: broker-user
password: broker.password

You can also run pact tests against MockMvc without need to spin up the whole application context which takes time and often requires more additional setup (e.g. database). In order to run lightweight tests just use @WebMvcTest from Spring and MockMvcTestTarget as a test target before each test.

For example:

@WebMvcTest
@Provider("myAwesomeService")
@PactBroker
class ContractVerificationTest {

@Autowired
private MockMvc mockMvc;

@TestTemplate
@ExtendWith(PactVerificationSpringProvider.class)
void pactVerificationTestTemplate(PactVerificationContext context) {
context.verifyInteraction();
}

@BeforeEach
void before(PactVerificationContext context) {
context.setTarget(new MockMvcTestTarget(mockMvc));
}
}

You can also use MockMvcTestTarget for tests without spring context by providing the controllers manually.

For example:

@Provider("myAwesomeService")
@PactFolder("pacts")
class MockMvcTestTargetStandaloneMockMvcTestJava {

@TestTemplate
@ExtendWith(PactVerificationInvocationContextProvider.class)
void pactVerificationTestTemplate(PactVerificationContext context) {
context.verifyInteraction();
}

@BeforeEach
void before(PactVerificationContext context) {
MockMvcTestTarget testTarget = new MockMvcTestTarget();
testTarget.setControllers(new DataResource());
context.setTarget(testTarget);
}

@RestController
static class DataResource {
@GetMapping("/data")
@ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.NO_CONTENT)
void getData(@RequestParam("ticketId") String ticketId) {
}
}
}

Important: Since @WebMvcTest starts only Spring MVC components you can't use PactVerificationSpringProvider and need to fallback to PactVerificationInvocationContextProvider

Webflux tests

You can test Webflux routing functions using the WebFluxTarget target class. The easiest way to do it is to get Spring to autowire your handler and router into the test and then pass the routing function to the target.

For example:

  @Autowired
YourRouter router;

@Autowired
YourHandler handler;

@BeforeEach
void setup(PactVerificationContext context) {
context.setTarget(new WebFluxTarget(router.route(handler)));
}

@TestTemplate
@ExtendWith(PactVerificationSpringProvider.class)
void pactVerificationTestTemplate(PactVerificationContext context) {
context.verifyInteraction();
}

Modifying requests

As documented in Pact JUnit5 module, you can inject a request object to modify the requests made. However, depending on the Pact test target you are using, you need to use a different class.

Test TargetClass to use
HttpTarget, HttpsTarget, SpringBootHttpTargetorg.apache.http.HttpRequest
MockMvcTestTargetMockHttpServletRequestBuilder
WebFluxTargetWebTestClient.RequestHeadersSpec

Verifying V4 Pact files that require plugins (version 4.3.0+)

Pact files that require plugins can be verified with version 4.3.0+. For details on how plugins work, see the Pact plugin project.

Each required plugin is defined in the plugins section in the Pact metadata in the Pact file. The plugins will be loaded from the plugin directory. By default, this is ~/.pact/plugins or the value of the PACT_PLUGIN_DIR environment variable. Each plugin required by the Pact file must be installed there. You will need to follow the installation instructions for each plugin, but the default is to unpack the plugin into a sub-directory <plugin-name>-<plugin-version> (i.e., for the Protobuf plugin 0.0.0 it will be protobuf-0.0.0). The plugin manifest file must be present for the plugin to be able to be loaded.

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