Hi, another question about

Stub Server (Rust)

: If I run this command:

PACT_BROKER_BASE_URL=abc ./vendor/pact-foundation/pact-php/bin/pact-stub-server/pact-stub-server --file tests/Contract/pacts/my-family-tree-relationship-my-family-tree-user.json

I will got this error:

2023-03-08T06:56:49.189486Z  INFO main pact_verifier::pact_broker: Fetching path '/' from pact broker
2023-03-08T06:56:49.189512Z ERROR main pact_stub_server: There were errors loading the pact files.
2023-03-08T06:56:49.189515Z ERROR main pact_stub_server:   - Invalid URL - relative URL without a base
Error: ExitCode(unix_exit_status(3))

I think stub server should load from the json file and ignore the env var

PACT_BROKER_BASE_URL

(and should not return that error). Is this a bug?

No, that environment var is used for the

--broker-url

parameter

I mean: • I didn't specify the

--broker-url

option manually, so I expect stub server didn't go to pact broker to look for pacts. • the env var

PACT_BROKER_BASE_URL

was set by Github/Gitlab for the

publishing pacts

feature after running consumer's contract tests. I didn't know that it will force stub server ignore

--file

option and look for pacts on pact broker instead. It's unexpected to me.

That's how clap works (the crate that does the CLI parsing). If the env var is set, it is turning on the option

Symfony Process has a feature to remove any environment variable from the process. I use that feature to remove

PACT_BROKER_BASE_URL

from

pact-stub-server

process, and it will load pact file I specified. All good for me.