How-To: Verify multiple pacts in a directory or from multiple file path locations

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We got asked the question in slack, as to whether you could verify pacts in a directory or from multiple locations.

The function currently expects a comma separated string of file paths, so passing a directory as the first argument will fail.

Here are a couple of examples. feel free to add your own

Read by Directory

This commit shows a working example (utilising pact-python 2.0.0)

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    def list_full_paths(directory):
        return [os.path.join(directory, file) for file in os.listdir(directory)]

    output, _ = verifier.verify_pacts(
        ','.join(map(str, list_full_paths("../pacts"))),
        verbose=False,
        provider_states_setup_url="{}/_pact/provider_states".format(PROVIDER_URL),
    )

Might not be an ideal solution, but if it gets readers out of a bind.

Read from multiple locations

Solution provided by Ivan Mikhalka over in Slack, thanks 👍🏾

            pact_files = []
            if not os.environ.get("CONSUMER_1_CONTRACT_PATH") is None:
                pact_files.append("{}".format(os.environ["CONSUMER_1_CONTRACT_PATH"]))
            if not os.environ.get("CONSUMER_2_CONTRACT_PATH") is None:
                pact_files.append("{}".format(os.environ["CONSUMER_2_CONTRACT_PATH"]))
            success, logs = verifier.verify_pacts(*pact_files)

export CONSUMER_1_CONTRACT=<path/to/contract1> && export CONSUMER_2_CONTRACT=<path/to/contract2> && pytest provider_test.py