Hi! Does anyone know where the documentation for the body of the POST request of the provider setup url parameter is? I get the following body:

{
  "consumer": "Consumer",
  "state": "User exists and has resources",
  "states": [
    "User exists and has resources"
  ],
  "params": {}
}

You only need to use that "state" string to identify what state it should be in, the body is empty. If you look in https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-python/blob/master/examples/fastapi_provider/tests/pact_provider.py there's an example with state "UserA does not exist" -> call the function setup_no_user_a()

hi @Mike Geeves I’m trying to reason with myself how that’s useful if we’re not getting anything in the body for a POST request. I thought the point of the provider was to actually use everything the consumer will send with the request against the provider

Yes that way you can do the consumer part first, you don't need knowledge of the provider implementation, it's a problem for the provider to worry about, only the expectation that the provider can implement an appropriate state