test-negative-contract

To test the services, start it and do:

• curl -X GET "http://localhost:8080/api/v1/xxxx" and you will receive a valid response "just a test"

To check that the error response is correct:

• curl -X GET "http://localhost:8080/api/v1/testFail" and you will receive an error response

{
  "timestamp": 1481654921954,
  "status": 409,
  "error": "Conflict",
  "exception": "com.example.MyCustomException",
  "message": "CUSTOM_MESSAGE_HERE",
  "path": "/api/v1/xxxx"
}

To test with contracts:

1. Run mvn clean test

A Build failure message appear:

Tests in error:
  RestTest.validate_negative:28 » IllegalArgument json string can not be null or...

Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Errors: 2, Skipped: 0

Check the autogenerated class: /test-negative-contract/target/generated-test-sources/contracts/org/springframework/cloud/contract/verifier/tests/com/example/external/consumer/RestTest.java

And line 28 is:

DocumentContext parsedJson = JsonPath.parse(response.getBody().asString());

If you inspect that in debug mode, you can see that response.getBody().asString() is empty