I am pulling my hair out. I have created a Pact-JS test framework to test my simple NodeJS application. I will show all the code below. I have used PactFlow to host my contract document (which was generated by running my consumer test). The problem is When I run my provider code it is failing. I get the following error (I will post the more verbose error below)) - `assert_success!': Error retrieving 
Verbose Error log:-
[2022-04-13 16:57:12.453 0000] INFO (15316 on DESKTOP-TJVM91P): [email protected]: Verifying provider
console.log
Provider listening on http://localhost:8081
at Server.<anonymous> (__tests__/provider/pact.provider.spec.js:28:21)
[2022-04-13 16:57:12.481 0000] INFO (15316 on DESKTOP-TJVM91P): [email protected]: Verifying Pacts.
[2022-04-13 16:57:12.483 0000] INFO (15316 on DESKTOP-TJVM91P): [email protected]: Verifying Pact Files
[2022-04-13 16:57:12.484 0000] DEBUG (15316 on DESKTOP-TJVM91P): [email protected]: Starting pact binary 'D:\p\pact-nodejs-demo\node_modules\@pact-foundation\pact-node\standalone\win32-1.88.83\pact\bin\pact-provider-verifier.bat', with arguments [--provider-states-setup-url http://localhost:59761/_pactSetup --provider Clients Service --log-level DEBUG --provider-base-url http://localhost:59761 --pact-broker-base-url https://******.pactflow.io --broker-token 1iB-FQbUuvpxce6QX-DBTQ --consumer-version-tag pact-consumer --provider-version-tag pact-provider --publish-verification-results false --provider-app-version 1.0.0 --verbose true]
[2022-04-13 16:57:12.491 0000] DEBUG (15316 on DESKTOP-TJVM91P): [email protected]: Created 'D:\p\pact-nodejs-demo\node_modules\@pact-foundation\pact-node\standalone\win32-1.88.83\pact\bin\pact-provider-verifier.bat' process with PID: 10524
FAIL __tests__/provider/pact.provider.spec.js (9.938s)
Clients Service Pact verification
× validates the expectations of the clients service (8022ms)
● Clients Service Pact verification › validates the expectations of the clients service
D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-1.62.0/lib/pact/hal/entity.rb:102:in `assert_success!': Error retrieving https://******.pactflow.io/pacts/provider/Clients Service/for-verification status=404 (Pact::Hal::ErrorResponseReturned)
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-1.62.0/lib/pact/hal/link.rb:65:in `post!'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-1.62.0/lib/pact/pact_broker/fetch_pact_uris_for_verification.rb:75:in `pacts_for_verification_entity'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-1.62.0/lib/pact/pact_broker/fetch_pact_uris_for_verification.rb:61:in `pacts_for_verification'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-1.62.0/lib/pact/pact_broker/fetch_pact_uris_for_verification.rb:44:in `call'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-1.62.0/lib/pact/pact_broker/fetch_pact_uris_for_verification.rb:38:in `call'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-1.62.0/lib/pact/pact_broker.rb:18:in `fetch_pact_uris_for_verification'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-provider-verifier-1.36.1/lib/pact/provider_verifier/aggregate_pact_configs.rb:46:in `pacts_for_verification'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-provider-verifier-1.36.1/lib/pact/provider_verifier/aggregate_pact_configs.rb:39:in `pacts_urls_from_broker'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-provider-verifier-1.36.1/lib/pact/provider_verifier/aggregate_pact_configs.rb:26:in `call'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-provider-verifier-1.36.1/lib/pact/provider_verifier/aggregate_pact_configs.rb:10:in `call'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-provider-verifier-1.36.1/lib/pact/provider_verifier/app.rb:211:in `all_pact_urls'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-provider-verifier-1.36.1/lib/pact/provider_verifier/app.rb:225:in `warn_empty_pact_set'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-provider-verifier-1.36.1/lib/pact/provider_verifier/app.rb:40:in `call'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-provider-verifier-1.36.1/lib/pact/provider_verifier/app.rb:35:in `call'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-provider-verifier-1.36.1/lib/pact/provider_verifier/cli/verify.rb:49:in `verify'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/thor-1.2.1/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in
`run'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/thor-1.2.1/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `invoke_command'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/thor-1.2.1/lib/thor.rb:392:in `dispatch'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/thor-1.2.1/lib/thor/base.rb:485:in `start'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/vendor/ruby/2.2.0/gems/pact-provider-verifier-1.36.1/lib/pact/provider_verifier/cli/custom_thor.rb:17:in `start'
from D:/p/pact-nodejs-demo/node_modules/@pact-foundation/pact-node/standalone/win32-1.88.83/pact/lib/app/pact-provider-verifier.rb:33:in `<main>'
opening connection to ******.pactflow.io:443...
opened
starting SSL for ******.pactflow.io:443...
SSL established
<- "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3\r\nAccept: application/hal json\r\nUser-Agent: Ruby\r\nAuthorization: [redacted]\r\n"
-> "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n"
-> "Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 16:57:19 GMT\r\n"
-> "Content-Type: application/hal json;charset=utf-8\r\n"
-> "Content-Length: 5555\r\n"
-> "Connection: keep-alive\r\n"
-> "Vary: Accept\r\n"
-> "Server: Webmachine-Ruby/1.6.0 Rack/1.3\r\n"
-> "X-Pact-Broker-Version: 2.98.0\r\n"
-> "X-Pact-Broker-Git-Sha: 3a08d128\r\n"
-> "X-Pactflow-Git-Sha: 85e7754e3\r\n"
-> "X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\r\n"
-> "Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload\r\n"
-> "X-Request-Id: cb35bba1d72c207abc7d787cbb5f4473\r\n"
-> "\r\n"
reading 5555 bytes...
-> "{\"_links\":{\"self\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io\",\"title\":\"Index\",\"templated\":false},\"pb:publish-pact\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacts/provider/{provider}/consumer/{consumer}/version/{consumerApplicationVersion}\",\"title\":\"Publish a pact\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:publish-contracts\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/contracts/publish\",\"title\":\"Publish contracts\",\"templated\":false},\"pb:latest-pact-versions\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacts/latest\",\"title\":\"Latest pact versions\",\"templated\":false},\"pb:tagged-pact-versions\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacts/provider/{provider}/consumer/{consumer}/tag/{tag}\",\"title\":\"All versions of a pact for a given consumer, provider and consumer version tag\",\"templated\":false},\"pb:pacticipants\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacticipants\",\"title\":\"Pacticipants\",\"templated\":false},\"pb:pacticipant\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacticipants/{pacticipant}\",\"title\":\"Fetch pacticipant by name\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:latest-provider-pacts\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacts/provider/{provider}/latest\",\"title\":\"Latest pacts by provider\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:latest-provider-pacts-with-tag\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacts/provider/{provider}/latest/{tag}\",\"title\":\"Latest pacts for provider with the specified tag\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:provider-pacts-with-tag\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacts/provider/{provider}/tag/{tag}\",\"title\":\"All pact versions for the provider with the specified consumer version tag\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:provider-pacts\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacts/provider/{provider}\",\"title\":\"All pact versions for the specified provider\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:latest-version\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacticipants/{pacticipant}/latest-version\",\"title\":\"Latest pacticipant version\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:latest-tagged-version\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacticipants/{pacticipant}/latest-version/{tag}\",\"title\":\"Latest pacticipant version with the specified tag\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:webhooks\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/webhooks\",\"title\":\"Webhooks\",\"templated\":false},\"pb:webhook\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/webhooks/{uuid}\",\"title\":\"Webhook\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:integrations\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/integrations\",\"title\":\"Integrations\",\"templated\":false},\"pb:pacticipant-version-tag\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacticipants/{pacticipant}/versions/{version}/tags/{tag}\",\"title\":\"Get, create or delete a tag for a pacticipant version\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:pacticipant-branch-version\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacticipants/{pacticipant}/branches/{branch}/versions/{version}\",\"title\":\"Get or add/create a pacticipant version for a branch\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:pacticipant-version\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacticipants/{pacticipant}/versions/{version}\",\"title\":\"Get, create or delete a pacticipant version\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:metrics\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/metrics\",\"title\":\"Get Pact Broker metrics\"},\"pb:can-i-deploy-pacticipant-version-to-tag\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/can-i-deploy?pacticipant={pacticipant}\\u0026version={version}\\u0026to={tag}\",\"title\":\"Determine if an application version can be safely deployed to an environment identified by the given tag\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:can-i-deploy-pacticipant-version-to-environment\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/can-i-deploy?pacticipant={pacticipant}\\u0026version={version}\\u0026environment={environment}\",\"title\":\"Determine if an application version can be safely deployed to an environment\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:provider-pacts-for-verification\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacts/provider/{provider}/for-verification\",\"title\":\"Pact versions to be verified for the specified provider\",\"templated\":true},\"beta:provider-pacts-for-verification\":{\"name\":\"beta\",\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/pacts/provider/{provider}/for-verification\",\"title\":\"DEPRECATED - please use pb:provider-pacts-for-verification\",\"templated\":true},\"curies\":[{\"name\":\"pb\",\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/doc/{rel}?context=index\",\"templated\":true},{\"name\":\"beta\",\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/doc/{rel}?context=index\",\"templated\":true}],\"pb:environments\":{\"title\":\"Environments\",\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/environments\",\"templated\":false},\"pb:environment\":{\"title\":\"Environment\",\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/environments/{uuid}\",\"templated\":true},\"pb:api-tokens\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/settings/tokens\",\"title\":\"API tokens\",\"templated\":false},\"pb:audit\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/audit\",\"title\":\"Audit trail\",\"templated\":false},\"pb:secrets\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/secrets\",\"title\":\"Secrets\",\"templated\":false},\"pf:admin-users\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/admin/users\",\"title\":\"Users\",\"templated\":false},\"pf:admin-teams\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/admin/teams\",\"title\":\"Teams\",\"templated\":false},\"pf:admin-system-accounts\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/admin/system-accounts\",\"title\":\"System accounts\",\"templated\":false},\"pf:admin-roles\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/admin/roles\",\"title\":\"Roles\",\"templated\":false},\"pf:admin-permissions\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/admin/permissions\",\"title\":\"Permissions\",\"templated\":false},\"pf:admin-authentication-settings\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/admin/tenant/authentication-settings\",\"title\":\"Authentication Settings\",\"templated\":false},\"pf:user-allocations\":{\"href\":\"https://******.pactflow.io/tenant/limits\",\"title\":\"User Allocations\",\"templated\":false}}}"
CodePudding user response：
It's quite simple. You have defined the provider in you consumer test (and what's in the contract) as pact-provider.
In your provider test, however, it is called Clients Service.
When your provider test is trying to discover the contracts, it uses the provider name as the key. Because there is no provider called Clients Service it's getting a a 404.
Either
- Update the provider name in the consumer to to
Clients Service(and delete the old integration) - Update the provider name to
pact-provider
(1. seems like the right thing to do)