I am trying to manage the state of provider service before running provider verification and my state handlers seems like not invoked which fails my test. I am not sure what wrong I am doing. Can somebody help me here?

const { Verifier } = require('@pact-foundation/pact')
const path = require('path')
const { beforeAll } = require('jest-circus')
const PORT = 8090
async function createProfile(from) {
    return await axios.post(`<http://localhost>:${PORT}/v2/profile/person/`, create_person_payload(), {
        headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
        httpAgent: http.Agent({ keepAlive: false }),
    })
}
describe('Pact provider Verification', () => {
    const opts = {
        provider: 'ProfileService',
        logLevel: 'info',
        providerBaseUrl: '<http://localhost:8090>',
        pactUrls: [path.resolve(__dirname, '../pacts/MainApp-PersonProfile.json')],
        stateHandlers: {
            'provider is ready to create a person profile': async () => {
                // Set up necessary state for creating a person profile
                return Promise.resolve('Provider state setup successful')
            },
            'provider has a person profile': async () => {
                //for an update to happen one profile need to be exists. Creat a profile first
                await createProfile('PROVIDER')
                return Promise.resolve('Provider state setup successful')
            },
            'provider wanst to update the profile': async () => {
                //for an update to happen one profile need to be exists. Creat a profile first
                await createProfile('PROVIDER')
                return Promise.resolve('Provider state setup successful')
            },
        },
    }

    it('should validate the expectations of ProfileService', () => {
        return new Verifier(opts).verifyProvider().then((output) => {
            console.log(output)
        })
    })
})

My provider service is running locally at port 8090. My get and Patch Call fails as no data is available in DB. I want to call the state handler before verification which will call

createProfile

function which will call an api to create resources.

What makes you think they aren't invoked? What do the logs say?

I am checking in my local DB and there is no entry. Also logs say empty state invoked

2024-07-22T11:03:11.213325Z  INFO ThreadId(13) pact_verifier: Running setup provider state change handler with empty state for 'A GET Request'
[16:33:11.495] WARN (73205): pact@13.1.0: no state handler found for state: ""
2024-07-22T11:03:11.505750Z  INFO ThreadId(13) pact_verifier: Running provider verification for 'A GET Request'
2024-07-22T11:03:11.505900Z  INFO ThreadId(13) pact_verifier::provider_client: Sending request to provider at <http://127.0.0.1:59665/>

2024-07-22T110311.213325Z INFO ThreadId(13) pact_verifier: Running setup provider state change handler with empty state for ‘A GET Request’

there is a state called

A GET Request

but your statehandlers don’t match. Whatever is in the consumer pact file must match your setup. The empty

""

state probably isn’t a problem, I’d like to see more evidence of other state handlers not firing that match your description

@Matt (pactflow.io / pact-js / pact-go) Can you guide me to some tutorials where I can get a clear understanding of how to manage state?

https://docs.pact.io/getting_started/provider_states https://docs.pact.io/provider/using_provider_states_effectively