[V3] PactDslJsonRootValue as response body fails

[huehnerlady]

Hi,

I am currently try to implement a pact:

my code looks as follows

  @Pact(consumer = "CONSUMER")
  fun consumer(builder: PactDslWithProvider) =
      builder
          .uponReceiving("download document")
          .method("GET")
          .path("/download")
          .willRespondWith()
          .status(200)
          .headers(mapOf("Content-Type" to "application/pdf"))
          .body(PactDslJsonRootValue.stringType("someFile"))
          .toPact()

  @Test
  @PactTestFor(pactMethod = "consumer", pactVersion = V3)
  fun testConsumer(mockServer: MockServer) {
    val response = RestTemplate().getForEntity(mockServer.getUrl() + "/download", ByteArray::class.java)
    response.statusCode shouldBe HttpStatus.OK
    response.headers["Content-Type"]?.shouldContain("application/pdf")
    response.body?.toString(Charsets.UTF_8) shouldBe "someFile"
  }

I now have the problem:

Expected :"someFile"
Actual   :""someFile""

So for me it looks like there is an extra set of " added to the response?

relates to #1841 (same error, but in V4 and request, therefore I opened a new issue)

[rholshausen]

PactDslJsonRootValue and the other JSON DSLs can only be used with JSON payloads (that's why they have Json in the class name). Your content type is application/pdf, which is a binary format. You can't use any matching rules with that except for the content type one.

[huehnerlady]

PactDslJsonRootValue and the other JSON DSLs can only be used with JSON payloads (that's why they have Json in the class name). Your content type is application/pdf, which is a binary format. You can't use any matching rules with that except for the content type one.

@rholshausen thanks for your answer. but what does stringType as a root value otherwise mean? to me it sounds like there is a body and instead of an object I have just a string. so I am very confused in which other circumstance I would use this then?