How to do additional checks on the provider response?

Hi,

this is a question.

I wanted to introduce some additional testing to the pact after the response has been retrieved. As far as I understand, the way to do it is to implement the interface au.com.dius.pact.provider.junit.target.Target.

Since there is a default implementation HttpTarget, I’ve extended it and overridden the method testInteraction. What I would actually want to do is receive the response based on the contract specification and do some additional checks (e.g. apply jsonschema validation).

How am I supposed to do it without rewriting the logic to make the right call for a second time in my override?

[uglyog]

There are a few different ways of achieving this. We could have a callback mechanism similar to the state change methods. That way you could just provide an annotated method on your test class that receives the response data.

[uglyog]

Returning a collection of validation failures would be better. Handling exceptions would work, but it only allows for reporting one failure.