hey guys, normally the mockServer variable is instantiated during test execution e.g.

it('Domain exists - Responding with the correct companyId for specific domain', () => {
       // setup provider
       ....
      return provider.executeTest(async (mockServer: V3MockServer) => {
        // call function which takes in 'mockServer' as a param

        // test assertion here
      });
    });

and the only way to pass the

mockServer

var is within

provider.executeTest()

, but how can i set

mockServer

in a before block before the it() block? because it would say that

mockServer

is not defined

It’s only instantiated in the executeTest block

tried installing

jest-pact

which provides a wrapper for me to wrap the entire test with

pactWith({ provider object}, () => {

// ...

}

and this is using

import { pactWith } from 'jest-pact/dist/v3';
import { V3MockServer } from '@pact-foundation/pact/src/v3/matchers';

to force it to use PactV3 (in theory) So this will allow me to define the mockServer var in a before() block, however when i do this :

pactWith(
  {
    dir: //..
    consumer: //.. 
    provider: //..
    logLevel: 'debug',
  },
  (interaction) => {
    interaction('hit api', ({ provider, execute }) => {
       //....
          functionCall( provider.mockServer),
          });
       

 // tests below
....

it says

Property 'mockServer' does not exist on type 'PactV3'.ts(2339)

why is that?

I’d need to create a repro or check the source. jest-pact was a convenience wrapper originally created to deal with the pact core (provided by a ruby cli)’s lifecycle methods. pact-js v10+ uses the pact-core (provided by the rust ffi) and doesn’t require the same lifecycle management. The dsl was never fully finalised in

jest-pact

and the authoring experience is pretty nice now with vanilla

pact-js

I’ve never gone back and done anything with

jest-pact

https://github.com/pact-foundation/jest-pact/issues/215

for 1) do you mean not use (jest-pact) pactWith() wrapper? 2) yep thanks will see 🙂

The mock server doesn't exist on the types that the v3 pactWith wrapper provides. The v3 pactWith wrapper was written before the DSL was finalised, and was pretty beta at the time. I'm not sure how useful you'll find it