Does anyone know whether pactflow validates verifi...
# pactflowb
Bill Kehoe
06/22/2023, 3:07 PMDoes anyone know whether pactflow validates verifies that a provider actually supports all of the query string parameters sent by the consumer? I have a situation where that appears to not be the case.
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Timothy Jones
06/22/2023, 10:39 PMthis might be a mis-written contract. In a contract test, you say:
Timothy Jones
06/22/2023, 10:40 PM• When I send this request
• You will respond with this response
Timothy Jones
06/22/2023, 10:41 PMIf you don’t include all the parameters sent by the client in the contract, they’re ignored
If the provider doesn’t read one of the parameters, but it wasnt necessary to generate that response, the test could also pass
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Bill Kehoe
06/26/2023, 1:08 PMThe latter is the case.
If the provider doesn’t read one of the parameters, but it wasn't necessary to generate that response, the test could also passAnd as far as I can tell, there is no way in OpenAPI to state that a provider should fail if it receives a query string parameter that it does not use.
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Timothy Jones
06/27/2023, 12:37 AMWhy would you want that?
Timothy Jones
06/27/2023, 12:37 AMHave a read of the bit in the pact documentation about Postel's law