Automatically create a `PactDslJsonBody` from a Java object

Currently, to define the body of a message within a Java consumer test, we have to do the following:

new PactDslJsonBody()
  .stringType("firstName", "Zaphod")
  .stringType("lastName", "Beeblebrox"))
  .toPact();

This is quite cumbersome, especially for large objects (which are not unusual).

Is there a way to automatically create a PactDslJsonBody from a given Java object?

If not, consider this a feature request 😃.

Implementing a mapper that does this seems easy enough, and I’d gladly give it a try.

[uglyog]

Should be able to do this.

[schuettec]

We build a lib for that. It creates calls on PactDslJsonBody from a Java Bean. Matcher are used by default. But you can configure it very flexible. @thombergs https://github.com/remondis-it/pact-consumer-builder 😃