Hi All, We are setting up contract test for kafka events for a dotnet project and going through https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-net/blob/master/docs/messaging-pacts.md to setup Provider test. I am able to verify the result but dont know how to publish the result without swagger file. For APi Contract testing we are running this command to publish the result.

publish_provider_contract:
	@echo "\n========== STAGE: publish-provider-contract (spec + results) ==========\n"
	${PACTFLOW_CLI_COMMAND} publish-provider-contract \
	${OAS_PATH} \
     --provider ${PACTICIPANT} \
     --provider-app-version ${VERSION} \
     --branch ${BRANCH} \
     --content-type application/xml \
     --verification-exit-code=0 \
     --verification-results './report.xml' \
     --verification-results-content-type ${REPORT_FILE_CONTENT_TYPE}\
     --verifier xunit

where OAS_PATH is the swagger path. Can someone help me how to publish the verification result without Swagger file

Hey @Megha Agarwal , I think you’re mixing up two concepts here: publishing provider contracts (which you do when you’re doing bidirectional contract testing) and publishing provider verification results (which is typically part of consumer-driven contract testing). Which of these are you trying to do? https://www.ontestautomation.com/approaches-to-contract-testing/

I am doing bidirectional contract testing

OK. That means you don’t publish the contract verification result, that’s determined by PactFlow. You can publish additional (unit, integration) test results as some sort of audit trail but not without a contract. There is no point in doing that, PactFlow doesn’t even know how to parse those additional test results, so without a contract you’re essentially publishing nothing. If the provider creates the verification results, you’re not doing bidirectional contract testing.

BDCT currently only works with OAS documents on the provider side, so you can’t do Kafka / Messaging with BDCT (unless that could be expressed as an OAS, which… probably it can’t without bending the rules)

Hi Matt and Bas, Thanks for the reply. I have DMed u