Curious about pruning of context-path in contract and in consumer-side test #2306

My POC is basically working, both for provider-side and consumer-side tests. One thing that I found curious was what is done with the endpoint url with respect to the context-path.

In the contract definition, the url value must not include the context-path apparently. Taken by itself, this is not that surprising, but the apparent effect on the consumer-side test is more surprising.

The resource controller has an autowired url for the endpoint it has to reach, which will include the port number. In my consumer-side test, I have to munge that with reflection, changing the port to the stub runner port. This is not surprising. What is surprising is that I also have to change that url to remove the context-path. The context-path in our services is always "/msapi", so now instead of the url being something like http://localhost:8080/msapi/servicename/endpoint, it becomes http://localhost:<stubrunnerport>/servicename/endpoint. This works, but it sure seems odd.

Can you explain the background of this?