Hi guys I published my pact with producer and consumer currently it is tag to my pull request branch do I need to tag it to my

main

as well ? how should I organise this?

I'm not sure I follow the question But to use branches, you would set the branch in the Pact CLI publish command (consumer side) and on the verification options (provider side)

so the above is the pacts I published from my CI successfully but when I created another branch my tests is failing because of

2023-07-28T03:52:17.177190Z ERROR ThreadId(03) pact_verifier: Failed to load pact - Could not load pacts from pact broker 
Link/Resource was not found - No pacts were found for this provider

thats why im curious if I need to tag my pacts to

main

so the other pull request running CI can verify on

How are you telling the provider build to discover the pacts?

this is how my provider is configured

const p = new MessageProviderPact({
    messageProviders: {
      'publish generate keypair': providerWithMetadata(
        async () => {
          const mockKeypair = {
            keyPair: {
              publicKey: {},
              privateKey: {},
            },
            expiration: 1721191988872,
            notBefore: 1689655988872,
            kid: '68d371b2-0b1e-4921-9f03-06987f3645a1',
            alg: 'ES256',
          };
          return getGenerateKeypairEvent({ result: mockKeypair });
        },
        {
          'content-type': 'application/json',
        }
      ),
    },
    logLevel: LOG_LEVEL as LogLevel,
    provider: 'KafkaGenerateKeyPairProvider',
    ...(BROKER_URL
      ? {
          // Broker validation
          pactBrokerUrl: BROKER_URL,
          pactBrokerUsername: process.env.PACT_BROKER_USERNAME,
          pactBrokerPassword: process.env.PACT_BROKER_PASSWORD,
          providerVersionBranch: process.env.GIT_BRANCH,
        }
      : {
          // For local validation
          pactUrls: [path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'pacts')],
        }),
    consumerVersionSelectors: [
      {
        matchingBranch: true,
      },
    ],
  });

Do the branches line up?

where do I set it for the pact_broker ? Im using the pact-broker cli to publish currently

pact-broker publish pacts
        --verbose --consumer-app-version $$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
        --tag-with-git-branch

I'm asking if the provider's branch matches the consumer's

nope it doesnt the provider is tagged on a separate branch so is the consumer

So the matching branch selector won't work for you

Here are a number of useful hands-on labs that teach all of the key concepts: https://docs.pactflow.io/docs/workshops and https://docs.pact.io/implementation_guides/workshops

alright thanks Matt will check it out! would you also know any pacts examples done using https://buildkite.com/?

We'll, we use it at PactFlow but nothing publi

yep all good mate I will implement the concepts 👌 thanks!