I was looking into the provider state. So is it just a case of having an in memory database (or even just hardcoding it)for example in the provider test. Using the same data that the consumer request expects and to include that in the opts:

const opts = {
  ...
  stateHandlers: {
    [null]: () => {
      // This is the "default" state handler, when no state is given
    }
    "Has no animals": () => {
      animalRepository.clear()
      return Promise.resolve(`Animals removed from the db`)
    },
    "Has some animals": () => {
      importData()
      return Promise.resolve(`Animals added to the db`)
    },
    "Has an animal with ID 1": () => {
      importData()
      return Promise.resolve(`Animals added to the db`)
    }
  }
}

return new Verifier(opts).verifyProvider().then(...)

so like in the above example. If the consumer is expecting in the request it sends an id, and name and expects the id to be 1. Can i just hardcode the data as something like this:

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "dog"
}

This family of questions has been coming up a bit recently, I wonder if there's any docs written about it 🤔

Hey Boris thanks for the response. I just have trouble navigating the documentation for pact

Makes sense, there's a chance it's not clearly structured in the docs, but the conversation happens a bunch in Slack 😅