blobwave How can I adjust in my

Provider Service

's gitlab job, or pactVerify selectors (or other alternatives?), to run the pactVerify for all the past consumer versions (released) and publish results.... but allow it to fail on the released.... PLUS ONLY really prevent my MR to be merged (ie: not allowed to fail) if and only if the `pactVerify`failed for `latest_from_main_branch`or deployed. (but ignore if it failed a past released version of the consumer) CONTEXT I have this scenario • a

Consumer Service

publishing a pact when it's merged to it's main branch, and this pact is ready in my pact broker to be verified with

Provider Service

• then I have the

Provider Service

gitlab pipeline, to verify against that pact from

Consumer Service

with selectors

latest_from_main_branch

+

released_or_deloyed

• Also, I am marking each and all versions of the consumer as released (and only one as deployed) If my

Provider Service

's

pactVerify

finds 10 released versions (with of them been the latest + deployed) it would run 10 times it's verification and publish those 10 results... (I am still trying to test if the

pactVerify

fails only 1/10 (eg the very first version of the consumer) would the total result be

PASSED

or

FAILED )

you only need to record a deployment or a release. not both. a deployment, removes existing records to deployed contracts, and replaces with the version now deployed a release, will mark that version as active, and all other versions remain active. do you actually multiple versions of your consumer deployed at one time?

yes, you are right and I understand the difference between both (release or deployed) but my question remains the same: I want my

pactVerify

task to run against all the consumer's released versions (and publish the results so they are available later on for me to use

can I deploy

but my provider's pipeline ONLY to prevent to be merged if only the latest fails (but not to prevent the merge if an old version of the consumer failed)

if the

pactVerify

from the provider’s gitlab’s pipeline fails 1/10 released consumer versions (eg the very first version of the consumer, but passes all the other 9 ones, including the latest) ... would the total result be

PASSED

or

FAILED

the result would be

FAILED

, unless the pacts are pending (docs.pact.io/pending).

what I did in the end was run the pactVerify against all versions in branch main (but allow this step to fail the pipeline, as the aim is simply historical breaking changes) and setup the blocker for merging with

can-i-merge

checking against the latest version of pacts from all consumers and setup the blocker for deploying with

can-i-deploy

which would check the deployed version of all consumers of this producer in that given environment

That works too!

btw thanks a lot for replying to all these threads, very appreciated to have help from someone who knows pact.... when it's your first time and no one in your company knows pact it can get pretty lonely not having someone to bounce ideas / challenge you back with good practices, thanks a lot!

That is lovely feedback! I can empathise with how you feel, and glad that the Slack community is working for empowering you to get to Pact Nirvana. The more we can empower champions in orgs to love Pact and rave about it, the better. Matt is incredibly knowledgable and a seal of a approval from him is like chefkiss

Pact Nirvana

I am going to quote this in the blogpost that I'll write at the end of our implementation, hope you dodn't mind?

No of course, it’s not my original quote. I do ❤️ Nirvana and am a grunge kid, but the quote came from Beth https://docs.pact.io/pact_nirvana Awesome to hear you are writing a blog. You will have to let us know when its written and we can cross promote it via our Pact blog and get it listed on our community articles page

nirvana

You’re most welcome Anna, we love hearing from the community and more than happy to provide that support. Smells like teen spirit was one of the first songs I learned on my guitar too (well, just the riff 😛 ) - so it was a good choice. Only later in life did I come to appreciate meditation and realise what the real “nirvana” meant - one day we’ll all get there!