Pact Foundation

Hello! I have a problem regarding the <https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-provider-verifier/> gem, as it seems that is sending a wrong formatted JSON body on the request.

I am executing the next command: `bundle exec pact-provider-verifier hq-placements-client/pacts/hq-placements-client-hq-placements.json --provider hq-placements --provider-base-url ‘<http://localhost:3000/>’

The body in the contract is this one:
```"body": {
  "sort_field": "not permitted value"
}```
And I can see that the provider is receiving this body:
```"{\"sort_field\":\"not permitted value\"}"=&gt;nil```
BUT in case I use the `query` instead of `body` in the contract json:
```"query": "sort_field=invalid"```
The request works properly.

Also, mention that I can do the same request using Postman or ‘curl’ and it works properly:
```curl --location --request GET 'localhost:3000/placements' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
          "sort_field": "not permitted value"
}'```
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks a lot for anyone that could help me. :pray:

What do you mean by spec file?
• I am using a contract with this specification:
```    "pactSpecification": {
      "version": "2.0.0"
    }```
• For the gem: pact-provider-verifier (1.36.1)

Hey hey,

Yeah that is what I mean, just wanted to know if it was a v2 or v3+ spec (as that ruby verifier supports up to v2 only) just as a first pass for troubleshooting, may be worth raising that as an issue against the repo as well to track. Nothing reaches out to me straight away sorry!

Ah! ok, I will do so.
I did some debugging and I can see that when the query method is a GET (catching-it with Wireshark), the body is translated into query params (what is formerly accepted, since body on a GET request is not the ‘correct’ way to handle the request).

As fast as I change-it to other methods, the body appears and in a correct way.

<https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-provider-verifier/issues/105>