Hello, I'm facing an issue while verifying kafka messages using pact

[from Pact Broker <http://localhost:9292/pacts/provider/jsonKafkaProviderApp/consumer/jsonKafkaConsumerApp/pact-version/cad7af5d7c576d3aa19e56a755683a7e811ee5a1/metadata/c1tdW2xdPXRydWUmc1tdW2N2XT0xMCZzW11bY3ZdPTEwJnA9dHJ1ZQ>]
  A simple message
    generates a message which
      Verification Failed - Failed to invoke provider method 'verifySimpleMessageEvent'

Pending Failures:

1) A simple message

    1.1)       Failed to invoke provider method 'verifySimpleMessageEvent'

I am getting the above error when even i try to verify a kafka message. Below is the function 'verifySimpleMessageEvent'

@PactVerifyProvider("A simple message")

MessageAndMetadata verifySimpleMessageEvent() {

Map<String, Object> metadata = new HashMap<String, Object>() {

{

put(KEY_CONTENT_TYPE, JSON_CONTENT_TYPE);

}

};

return new MessageAndMetadata(new byte[] {}, metadata);

}

Might be worth sharing any relevant logs to help us understand why it couldn’t execute that method

thanks