Example Provider Dotnet

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This is an example of a .NET 8 provider that uses Pact, PactFlow and GitHub Actions to ensure that it is compatible with the expectations its consumers have of it.

The project uses a Makefile to simulate a very simple build pipeline with two stages - test and deploy.

The latest version of the Example Consumer/Example Provider pact is published here.

Project Phases

The project uses a Makefile to simulate a very simple build pipeline with two stages - test and deploy.

• Test
  • Run tests (including the pact tests that generate the contract)
  • Publish pacts, tagging the consumer version with the name of the current branch
  • Check if we are safe to deploy to prod (ie. has the pact content been successfully verified)
• Deploy (only from master)
  • Deploy app (just pretend for the purposes of this example!)
  • Tag the deployed consumer version as 'prod'

Dependencies

• Docker
• A PactFlow account
• A read/write API Token from your PactFlow account
• .NET 8.x installed. Installation instructions can be found here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/

Usage

See the PactFlow CI/CD Workshop.

The below commands are designed for a Linux/OSX environment, please translate for use on Windows/PowerShell as necessary:

Please ensure the following environment variables have been exported in the process that you run the tests (generally a terminal):

export PACT_BROKER_TOKEN=<your pactflow read/write token here>
export PACT_BROKER_BASE_URL=https://<your pactflow subdomain>.pactflow.io

Simulating CI

Usually, you would integrate this into a real CI system (such as Buildkite/Jenkins/CircleCI etc., or Travis as this repository is built against).

You can simulate a CI process with the following command:

make fake_ci