Another question: has anybody ever used Pact in an event-driven context where a single command resulted in a command-acknowledge and multiple subsequent events? How did you handle that? Does that work with Pact?

you can do sync message testing with Pact V4 spec where you expect one or multiple responses however it isnt widely used at all and has some implementation gaps

Thanks mate. So this would only work with bindings that support Pact V4? Good to know. Most of them do by now I guess? Do you happen to know if there's a code example of this somewhere? Language isn't important

wip https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-workshop-message/blob/feat/sync_message/consumer-rust-kafka-sync/src/main.rs#L255

Legend

provider side https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-workshop-message/blob/feat/sync_message/provider-rust-kafka-sync/src/main.rs#L288

Awesome, I'm going to have a good look at this later today or tomorrow in prep for a client visit on Monday. I expect lots of follow up questions 😉

Added a ticket to track adding a sync message workshop https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-workshop-message/issues/1 will fill it out with a bit more detail. Feel free to add any expectations or ideas of real world scenarios after your client visit if you want :)

Def will do that!

Thanks Yousaf! Do keep us in the loop Bas - as you know, end-users with use cases drives change.