Hello Team, I have a doubt regarding Provider state. As a consumer I want certain specific value to be returned from provider. Say I am consuming a field "RuleId" and I want provider to return "Rule-123". As a provider - I am supposed to hit the real running service and match the response with pact response. But to achieve my scenario, should I use Provider state and mock the response to return "Rule-123" ? Similarly for error scenarios - should I create mock response for each error scenario ? I might be wrong here, but I am confused like if I mock any response, then I am not validating real response but mock response. Kindly help to understand how provider side should be setup to achieve these scenarios mentioned above

You should use provider states to mock something deeper in your service (like the data / repository layer), so that your response is really what your provider will return

Thanks Timothy for response. "You should use provider states to mock something deeper in your service (like the data / repository layer)" - Can you elaborate a bit on this one? If say "Rule-123" is coming from DB, I should insert that data beforehand in the DB and clear it after the test ? Or I can use Mokito and based on condition reply with appropriate response?