Further question: what does the

ProviderState

describe? If we pass

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ProviderState(description: "orders exist", params: ["id": "12345"])

what is that supposed to match up with? Does that mean the API is expecting a body with

id

value of "12345"? In the example params are sent to ProviderState for a .GET request, so presumably these are not parameters passed along with a request. Are we just completely off in our assumptions? Thanks in advance 🙂

These help provider side set up the state of their side of the test. They are not parameters of a request. Think of “provider state” as a state of environment/data at the time of the request. https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-specification/tree/version-3#allow-multiple-provider-states-with-parameters