Hi, I'm using Pact JVM to generate my consumer contracts to further upload them to Pactflow. I'm facing an issue with wildcards usage in matchQuery method. When I'm using

matchQuery("myQueryParam", ".*")

it's generating a value which is not supported by Pactflow. Example of generated value:

"\u095D"

. Do you think this should be fixed in Pact JVM or Pactflow should be able to handle values like this?

If you don't provide an example value, it will generate a random one from the regex. Just provide an example as the third parameter

As an aside, the generated string for

.*

might be highlighting edge cases you hadn't thought about 🙂

@uglyog but in this case Pactflow should handle all kind of characters randomly generated by Pact

I'm not so sure about that . . . query parameters don't actually support

.*

, because characters need to be encoded outside the acceptable list. I don't know if it's reasonable to expect

matchQuery

to encode things for you, or if that should be a distinct capability, or option to the method. 🤔

Better to use

[a-zA-Z0-9]+

@uglyog yes, that's similar to what I did. But if let's say query parameters are allowed to have other characters than alphanumeric, that can take much more time to define a regex.

Just give it any example value, it will use a matcher when required

Thanks for good suggestion!