Hello, about half a year ago I had a question on how random data affects contract auto-validation: https://www.linen.dev/s/pact-foundation/t/18926283/hey-there-https-docs-pact-io-getting-started-matching-random . The info there was that random data generated by pact generators will be 'ignored' by Pact and the contract still auto-validated. For our project, I wrote a tool that creates the Pact matchers from the used DTOs. For some fields, I generate random example values myself and pass them in as the example value. However, it seems like this causes the broker to detect it as a new contract, eventhough (from what I can tell) only the "content" changed. But the content section is also changed when generators are used. On what criterion does the broker detect whether two contracts are equivalent?

It’s quite simple - the broker hashes the contents of the pact file. So if anything changes, it is considered a new contract. There are some good and some not-so-good reasons for this, but that’s the situation.