Another question for y'all! I'm using the pact protobuf plugin in my consumer test, and I would like to use a matcher for the response (the provider service returns a random uuid). As best I can tell,

.UsingPlugin

returns a

SynchronousMessageWithPlugin

type, which only allows

.WithContents

to be called on it; since

.WithContents

takes a stringified blob of JSON, I assume it doesn't support using matchers (e.g.). If someone can verify that understanding and/or help me come up with an alternative solution, that would be great!

Hey hey, that is correct as they can’t be serialised and sent over the wire to the grpc server (plugin) so an alternative mechanism was introduced https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-plugins/blob/main/docs/matching-rule-definition-expressions.md these are the plugin supported matchers

oh cool! sorry for missing that – I hadn't seen that doc before

no worries, its on the docs page but probably not in the right place for discoverability https://docs.pact.io/implementation_guides/pact_plugins/docs/content-matcher-design https://docs.pact.io/implementation_guides/pact_plugins/docs/matching-rule-definition-expressions

yeah i think i was looking at the matchers examples on GH (which is for http) and the grpc examples on GH (which don't have matchers)