Hi team, I'm wondering if it's possible to impleme...
# protobufsb
Ben Docherty
07/05/2023, 1:21 PMHi team, I'm wondering if it's possible to implement pact with grpc using pact-js? From what I can gather the plugin is not yet supported by pact-js and I cannot see any examples that do not utilise the plugin
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Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
07/05/2023, 1:42 PM
pact-js supports v4 in beta, there is a plug-in example, you can use the pact-protobuf-plugin for grpc
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Ben Docherty
07/05/2023, 1:45 PMIs it possible to link the plugin example, I've had trouble finding one for pact-js?
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Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
07/05/2023, 1:54 PM
in the examples folder in the pact-js repo under v4 subfolder, sorry i am on phone atm
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
07/05/2023, 1:55 PM
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
07/05/2023, 1:56 PM
here is a basic grpc test from one of my scratchpads
https://github.com/YOU54F/pluginopedia/blob/main/example-project-js-grpc-plugin/test/matt.consumer.spec.ts
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
07/05/2023, 1:57 PM
there are provider examples in the folder too
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Ben Docherty
07/05/2023, 1:57 PMThese are fantastic! Thanks Yousaf
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Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
07/05/2023, 1:57 PM
pleasure my mate, let us know how you get on
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Ben Docherty
07/07/2023, 10:30 AMQQ Yousaf, we use Jest throughout our project. Do you know if there are plans to update
jest-pacty
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
07/07/2023, 10:56 AM
I’d really love to deprecate jest-pact, and by way of virtue mocha-pact and instead utilise pact-js directly. We don’t have the same lifecycle methods to worry about compared to spinning up a standalone process (as per the Ruby impl).
I’d be happy to consider PR’s to update jest-pact but it isn’t hugely high on my priority list to do myself. My next mission is pact-python v3/v4 + plugins with the FFI and review of all the pact-php progress towards the FFI migration
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
07/07/2023, 10:56 AM
I haven’t discussed the potential deprecation with anyone yet, so I am just noodling
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
07/07/2023, 10:58 AM
We did have some feedback on the v3 dsl in jest-pact https://github.com/pact-foundation/jest-pact/issues/215 which gave consideration to the change in lifecycles.
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Ben Docherty
07/07/2023, 11:26 AMYes I see. I'd also like to use pact-js directly. Is that possible at this current moment? Or should I switch to using mocha for the time being?
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Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
07/07/2023, 11:36 AM
yeah, its grand to use pact-js directly, there are some vanilla jest examples in the repo but here is a pretty simple one which exercises all the matchers
https://github.com/YOU54F/pact-matchers/blob/main/pact-js-v3-v10/matchers.v3.pact.test.js
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
07/07/2023, 11:36 AM
and similar but as vscode snippets https://github.com/YOU54F/vscode-pact-snippets/blob/main/js/v3.test.js
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Ben Docherty
07/07/2023, 11:39 AMMagic. Thanks again Yousaf!
Ben Docherty
07/31/2023, 12:36 PMHey @Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io) 👋
Appreciate all the help in getting started. I've got a flow working with our solution!
It's manual at the moment though and I'd like to hook it up to the CI and the broker. I mostly know what I'm doing here as I've done it before but one part I'm unsure on is the plugin itself. For local dev I installed through the cli, but what's the best to do this for a CI solution using github actions?
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Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
07/31/2023, 12:45 PM
solid.
You can use a bash script for now.
https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-js/blob/master/scripts/install-plugins.sh
https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-plugins/blob/feat/pact-csv-plugin-linux-aarch64/scripts/install-plugin-cli.sh
https://github.com/YOU54F/pact-python/blob/feat/ffi_consumer/script/install_plugins.sh
The pact-ruby-standalone also comes with the pact-plugin-cli now installed. (note to myself:- I need to update the docs to reflect this)
https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-ruby-standalone
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
07/31/2023, 12:45 PM
they are all used in our CI runs 🙂
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Ben Docherty
07/31/2023, 1:13 PMIdeal, ta much 🙂