Hi there 👋 I have a quick design question regarding the

fromProviderState

mechanism. Its not language specific, but I'll use the JVM examples. A frequent situation, also shown in the docs, would be that a consumer is asking for a specific situation:

builder.given("product with ID 10 exists")
  .uponReceiving("get product with ID 10")
  .method("GET")
  .path("/product/10")
  ...

In this example the consumer had to came up with an ID that might exist for a product. (And the provider will then have to adhere to that, making product 10 available). Would this also be a valid application for

fromProviderState

to let the provider decide on the ID of an existing product? (All examples I found in the docs only relate to autogenerated IDs that can not really be picked by the consumer without making life hard for the provider. And they are also mostly focused on using

fromProviderState

for the response part, i.e. after

willRespondWith()

.) I.e. should we write this code instead as

builder.given("a product exists")
  .uponReceiving("get that product")
  .method("GET")
  .pathFromProviderState("/product/\${id}", "/product/10")
  ...

with a provider having a state like

@State("a product exists")
fun createProduct(params: Map<String, String>): Map<String, Any> {
  val product = ... // maybe create that product in the DB or something

  return mapOf("id" to product.id)
}

Thanks in advance and cheers 👍

Yes, this was exactly what that was for

awesome, thanks for clarification thumbsupparrot

Good to know