Test Automation University Contract tests with Pact course getting errors.

[druoid]

When I run npm run test:consumer I get the following error. When I remove line 26 the tests passes.

Pact verification failed - expected interactions did not match actual.

  24 |    }]
  25 | 
> 26 |    afterEach(() => provider.verify())
     |                             ^
  27 | 
  28 |    describe("GET Clients", () => {
  29 |      beforeEach(() => {

  at new VerificationError (node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact/src/errors/verificationError.js:21:42)
  at Pact.verify (node_modules/@pact-foundation/src/httpPact/index.ts:215:13)
  at Object.<anonymous> (__tests__/contract/consumer/ClientsConsumer.spec.js:26:29)
  at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)



  Mock server failed with the following mismatches:

    0) The following request was expected but not received: 
        Method: GET
        Path: /clients
        Headers:
          Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*

Test Suites: 1 failed, 1 total
Tests: 1 failed, 1 total
Snapshots: 0 total
Time: 0.855s, estimated 1s
Ran all test suites matching /tests/contract/consumer/i.

[mefellows]

Can you please share the code? This usually means a mishandled promise or that your API client is not sending the request to the mock server

[druoid]

Thanks @mefellows all code can be found here https://github.com/druoid/pactpoc/tree/main/tau-pact-nodejs-course-1.0.1

[mefellows]

The problem is this line is not sending a request to the pact mock service, it's sending it to your provider. You don't start your provider in a consumer test, the whole point is to decouple them:

const response = await getClients()

Check out the examples in this repository for how to do this.

[druoid]

Thanks for your response @mefellows. Unfortunately I couldn't get it working so have moved on to another example using pact.

[mefellows]

No worries. We have many you can borrow.

Might be worth raising with the original author that the examples don't run.