AmqpTarget doesn't find @PactVerifyProvider annotation

I’m running a simple message provider test:

@RunWith(PactRunner.class)
@Provider("userservice")
@PactFolder("../pact-message-consumer/target/pacts")
@SpringBootTest
public class MessageProviderTest {

	@TestTarget
	public final Target target = new AmqpTarget(Collections.singletonList("io.reflectoring"));

	@PactVerifyProvider("a user created message")
	public String verifyUserCreatedMessage() {
		return "{\"testParam1\": \"value1\",\"testParam2\": \"value2\"}";
	}
}

Executing this test results in

Failures:

0) a user created message
      No annotated methods were found for interaction 'a user created message'. You need to provide a method annotated with @PactVerifyProvider("a user created message") that returns the message contents.

The cause for this is that the Reflections call in ProviderVerifier#verifyResponseByInvokingProviderMethods doesn’t find the @PactVerifyProvider annotation on my test method. There must be something wrong with the setup of the Reflections instance (class loader?).

When I’m using the following code snippet from a test, the annotation is found:

Reflections r = new Reflections(ClasspathHelper.forPackage("io.reflectoring"), new MethodAnnotationsScanner());
Set<Method> methods = r.getMethodsAnnotatedWith(PactVerifyProvider.class);

[jon-ruckwood]

@eranberg I was experiencing the same issue but with 3.6.4. I found that after upgrading maven-surefire-plugin, everything started to work:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.22.1</version>
    <configuration>
        <useSystemClassLoader>false</useSystemClassLoader>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Intermediate versions may work, however I didn’t look into it.

[tylerkron]

Had this issue as well. My issue is that I am using Java 11. Upgraded to pact-jvm-consumer-junit version 4.0.0-beta.2 and I have provider verification working again.