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one more riddle :slightly_smiling_face:
how to add element inside json array ?
like `{z:[a,b,[d,e]]}` -&gt;`{z:[a,b,c,[d,e,f]]}`
where `a` and `d` is one term and  `b` `c` `e` `f` other ( same ) term

if you are conditionally/optionally expecting something to be there, you probably want two interactions.

and if adding `f` is kinda easy ( probably )
with `c` is pain

does your code act differently in both cases? or if the cases that `f` or `c` don't exist.

have you read this <https://docs.pact.io/faq#why-is-there-no-support-for-specifying-optional-attributes>?

:thinking_face: I'll mull it over and get back to you, and someone else may pop along in the meantime. Thanks <@U022P4M029Z>!

and i have no idea how to make provider be backwards compatible in this case

added one more thing
&gt;  where `a` and `d` is one term and  `b` `c` `e` `f` other ( same ) term
so some `{z:[like(a),eachLike(b),[like(a),eachLike(b)]]}` could work, but i didnt managed to make that work :disappointed:

would you be able to fire up a sample repo at all on GitHub? I can take a look this weekend?

you could use this as a start? <https://github.com/pactflow/example-consumer/tree/master/src>

Part of the trick here is that the value for `z` is a list of elements that can be either a something or a list of somethings? How deep does that typing nest (is it recursive, or just 1-deep)? Or are they heterogeneous? :thinking_face:

most tricky part is - array, as it is simpler with true-json

this is like a journal - sequence of arrays, which in theory could be with different length and sequence of `a` and `d`

so one more magic could be term, which could generate/expect `a` or `d`

and here we come to the border aka <https://docs.pact.io/consumer/contract_tests_not_functional_tests> :)