Tags are not published with the Gradle plugin when using providerTags

According to the documentation you can publish tags when verifying a contract via providerTags. I’ve found that specifying providerTags in the pact Gradle task does not work

pact {
    def gitSha = "git rev-parse --short HEAD".execute().text.trim()
    logger.lifecycle("gitSha: " + gitSha)

    // apply pact-specific properties https://docs.pact.io/implementation_guides/jvm/provider/gradle/#project-properties
    System.setProperty("pact.showStacktrace", "true");
    System.setProperty("pact.verifier.ignoreNoConsumers", "true");
    broker {
        pactBrokerUrl = 'https://pact-broker.docker.savagebeast.com'
    }
    reports {
        defaultReports() // adds the standard console output
        markdown // report in markdown format
        json // report in json format
        console
    }
    serviceProviders {
        catalog {
            terminateProviderTask = killGretty
            // assume that when pact verification is run, the port is not specified via the command line
            port = "$grettyPort"
            fromPactBroker {
                // specify the tags we want to verify here
                // https://docs.pact.io/pact_broker/advanced_topics/consumer_version_selectors/
                selectors = latestTags('master', 'mobile-test', 'prod', 'dr')
                providerTags = ['foo']
                providerVersion = { gitSha }
                if (gitBranch == 'master') {
                    enablePending = true // enable pending pacts support
                }
            }
        }
    }

When I run ./gradlew pactVerify -i -PdevDB -Ppact.verifier.publishResults=true -d the request with providerTags is null and the pact verification result is not tagged in the pact-broker:

16:53:58.426 [DEBUG] [au.com.dius.pact.provider.ProviderClient] Making request for provider au.com.dius.pact.provider.gradle.GradleProviderInfo@63e27c4e[providerVersion=build_agfshzjdd1dkne35s7bt3ouk3$_run_closure24$_closure42$_closure43$_closure44$_closure45@1615af63,providerTag=<null>,providerTags=<null>,brokerConfig=PactBrokerConsumerConfig(selectors=[ConsumerVersionSelector(tag=master, latest=true, consumer=null, fallbackTag=null), ConsumerVersionSelector(tag=mobile-test, latest=true, consumer=null, fallbackTag=null), ConsumerVersionSelector(tag=prod, latest=true, consumer=null, fallbackTag=null), ConsumerVersionSelector(tag=dr, latest=true, consumer=null, fallbackTag=null)], enablePending=false, providerTags=[foo]),project=project ':catalog',name=catalog,protocol=http,host=localhost,port=64683,path=/,startProviderTask=<null>,terminateProviderTask=task ':catalog:killGretty',requestFilter=<null>,stateChangeRequestFilter=<null>,createClient=<null>,insecure=false,trustStore=<null>,trustStorePassword=changeit,stateChangeUrl=<null>,stateChangeUsesBody=true,stateChangeTeardown=false,isDependencyForPactVerify=true,verificationType=REQUEST_RESPONSE,packagesToScan=[],consumers=[ConsumerInfo(name='Pact between hestia (6a00bddc) and catalog', stateChange=null, stateChangeUsesBody=true, packagesToScan=[], verificationType=null, pactSource=BrokerUrlSource(url=https://pact-broker.docker.savagebeast.com/pacts/provider/catalog/consumer/hestia/pact-version/aa83c5731bb25aa8e840dbc64bd4062eaa133159, pactBrokerUrl=https://pact-broker.docker.savagebeast.com, attributes={}, options={}, tag=null, result=PactBrokerResult(name=Pact between hestia (6a00bddc) and catalog, source=https://pact-broker.docker.savagebeast.com/pacts/provider/catalog/consumer/hestia/pact-version/aa83c5731bb25aa8e840dbc64bd4062eaa133159, pactBrokerUrl=https://pact-broker.docker.savagebeast.com, pactFileAuthentication=[], notices=[VerificationNotice(when=before_verification, text=The pact at https://pact-broker.docker.savagebeast.com/pacts/provider/catalog/consumer/hestia/pact-version/aa83c5731bb25aa8e840dbc64bd4062eaa133159 is being verified because it matches the following configured selection criteria: latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'dr', latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'master', latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'mobile-test', latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'prod' (all have the same content))], pending=false, tag=null, wip=false, usedNewEndpoint=true)), pactFileAuthentication=[], notices=[VerificationNotice(when=before_verification, text=The pact at https://pact-broker.docker.savagebeast.com/pacts/provider/catalog/consumer/hestia/pact-version/aa83c5731bb25aa8e840dbc64bd4062eaa133159 is being verified because it matches the following configured selection criteria: latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'dr', latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'master', latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'mobile-test', latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'prod' (all have the same content))], pending=false, wip=false), ConsumerInfo(name='Pact between graphql (1896a2ce) and catalog', stateChange=null, stateChangeUsesBody=true, packagesToScan=[], verificationType=null, pactSource=BrokerUrlSource(url=https://pact-broker.docker.savagebeast.com/pacts/provider/catalog/consumer/graphql/pact-version/34c9b0ea66c203af2897e2f9f8ec0772f60697aa, pactBrokerUrl=https://pact-broker.docker.savagebeast.com, attributes={}, options={}, tag=null, result=PactBrokerResult(name=Pact between graphql (1896a2ce) and catalog, source=https://pact-broker.docker.savagebeast.com/pacts/provider/catalog/consumer/graphql/pact-version/34c9b0ea66c203af2897e2f9f8ec0772f60697aa, pactBrokerUrl=https://pact-broker.docker.savagebeast.com, pactFileAuthentication=[], notices=[VerificationNotice(when=before_verification, text=The pact at https://pact-broker.docker.savagebeast.com/pacts/provider/catalog/consumer/graphql/pact-version/34c9b0ea66c203af2897e2f9f8ec0772f60697aa is being verified because it matches the following configured selection criteria: latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'dr', latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'master', latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'mobile-test', latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'prod' (all have the same content))], pending=false, tag=null, wip=false, usedNewEndpoint=true)), pactFileAuthentication=[], notices=[VerificationNotice(when=before_verification, text=The pact at https://pact-broker.docker.savagebeast.com/pacts/provider/catalog/consumer/graphql/pact-version/34c9b0ea66c203af2897e2f9f8ec0772f60697aa is being verified because it matches the following configured selection criteria: latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'dr', latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'master', latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'mobile-test', latest pact for a consumer version tagged 'prod' (all have the same content))], pending=false, wip=false)]]:
16:53:58.427 [DEBUG] [au.com.dius.pact.provider.ProviderClient]         method: POST

When I run ./gradlew pactVerify -i -Ppact.verifier.publishResults=true -Dpact.provider.tag=foo -PdevDB -d, I see the following entry in the gradle output and the pact verification result is tagged in the pact-broker:

17:00:47.531 [DEBUG] [au.com.dius.pact.core.pactbroker.PactBrokerClient] Pushed tag foo for provider catalog and version 3b305ae4

The project I’m using is configured with the following:

au.com.dius.pact.provider:gradle:4.1.20'
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Gradle 5.4.1
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Build time:   2019-04-26 08:14:42 UTC
Revision:     261d171646b36a6a28d5a19a69676cd098a4c19d

Kotlin:       1.3.21
Groovy:       2.5.4
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.13 compiled on July 10 2018
JVM:          11.0.9 (AdoptOpenJDK 11.0.9+11)
OS:           Mac OS X 10.15.7 x86_64

[ianrhamilton]

@uglyog I don’t think this is specifically related to Gradle. I also have this same problem with maven using version 4.1.28. Unfortunately, this is the latest version I can use due to my project being a java 8 project. Other projects within my company that are using the latest version do not have this issue, but like I say given I have to use a Java 8 supported version the issue persists.

[uglyog]

I’m just stating the reason for the current behaviour, but it is not ideal and needs to be fixed.