Hey everyone, we have multiple consumers consuming the same message from provider. The provider verification test classes for all these consumers look absolutely same. the only difference is the @Consumer("consumerName") annotation. It is creating a lot of duplicate code. Is there a way i could declare multiple consumer annotations, or multiple consumers names in the same annotation or reuse the providerverification methods. I tried to re-use the methods by putting them all in a AbstractFile and extending my consumers from it. In this case I start getting the below error:

Unable to fetch provider method ...

What happens if you remove the

@Consumer

annotation on the method - can you still select the correct consumers from the

@PactBroker

annotation?

i have put the @Consumer annotation on the class , not on the method. let me share some code snippet below the child class for specific consumer

@Consumer("consumerName")
@Provider("providerName")
public class VcOrderEventsMessagePV extends AbstractOrderChangeNotificationPV {

the parent class containing providerverification methods for all consumers

public class AbstractOrderChangeNotificationPV extends AbstractContractVerifierTest {  @BeforeEach
    public void beforeEach(PactVerificationContext context) {
        LOG.debug("beforeEach({})", context);
        setMessageTestTarget(context);
    }

    @TestTemplate
    @ExtendWith(PactVerificationSpringProvider.class)
    public void testOrderChangeNotification(Pact pact, Interaction interaction, PactVerificationContext context) {
        if (context == null) {
            return;
        }
        context.verifyInteraction();
    }

    @PactVerifyProvider(ProviderVerificationNames.RESTAURANT_CP_RECEIVED)
    public String restaurantPickupOrderReceived() {
        return getRestaurantCustomerPickupMessage(RECEIVED);
    }

grandparent class containing the methods needed for setting up the system in the correct state

@PactBroker
@IgnoreNoPactsToVerify
@AllowOverridePactUrl
public abstract class AbstractContractVerifierTest extends AbstractOrderEventDrivenTest {

I’m guessing it’s deprecated in favour of consumer version selectors

yes

Remove the

@Consumer

annotation as Matt said

yeah after making the changes it is working correctly. so to summarize, if we need to add multiple consumers we can use consumerversionselector in pactbroker annotation. Thanks a lot 😄 🍻