This project provides a server that can generate responses based on pact files. It is a single executable binary. It implements the V3 Pact specification.
The stub server works by taking all the interactions (requests and responses) from a number of pact files. For each interaction, it will compare any incoming request against those defined in the pact files. If there is a match (based on method, path and query parameters), it will return the response from the pact file.
The pact stub server is bundled as a single binary executable pact-stub-server
. Running this with out any options displays the standard help.
```console pact-stub-server v0.3.2 Pact Stub Server
USAGE: pact-stub-server [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] --dir
FLAGS: -o, --cors Automatically respond to OPTIONS requests and return default CORS headers --cors-referer Set the CORS Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to the Referer -h, --help Prints help information --insecure-tls Disables TLS certificate validation -v, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS: -d, --dir
-s, --provider-state <provider-state>
Provider state regular expression to filter the responses by
--provider-state-header-name <provider-state-header-name>
Name of the header parameter containing the provider state to be used in case multiple matching interactions
are found
-t, --token <token> Bearer token to use when fetching pacts from URLS
-u, --url <url>... URL of pact file to verify (can be repeated)
--user <user>
User and password to use when fetching pacts from URLS in user:password form
```
You can control the log level with the -l, --loglevel <loglevel>
option. It defaults to info, and the options that you can specify are: error, warn, info, debug, trace, none.
If you specify the -o, --cors
option, then any un-matched OPTION request will result in a default 200 response. By default the
Access-Control-Allow-Origin header will be set to *
. If you provide the --cors-referer
flag, then it will be set to the
value of the Referer header from the request.
You can specify the pacts to verify with the following options. They can be repeated to set multiple sources.
| Option | Type | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| -f, --file <file>
| File | Loads a pact from the given file |
| -u, --url <url>
| URL | Loads a pact from a URL resource |
| -d, --dir <dir>
| Directory | Loads all the pacts from the given directory |
Note: For URLs that are authenticated, you can use the --user
option to set the username and password or the
--token
to use a bearer token.
If you need to load pact files from a HTTPS URL that is using a self-signed certificate, you can use the --insecure-tls
flag to disable the TLS certificate validation. WARNING: this disables all certificate validations, including expired
certificates.
You can filter the interactions by provider state by supplying the --provider-state
option. This takes a regular
expression that is applied to all interactions before the requests are matched.
The running server can be controlled with the following options:
| Option | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| -p, --port <port>
| The port to bind to. If not specified, a random port will be allocated by the operating system. |