Can we verify the length of a string using PACT

[ravichandrasurabhi]

If Yes do we have any example for it.

[uglyog]

There is no way to do this, at the moment. Can you provide some insight on what you need to achieve?

[ravichandrasurabhi]

I need to verify a length of a string. For example there is a ORDER_NUMBER where as per contract should be upto 15 Characters. I want to verify whether in response we are getting less than 15 Chars or not. The max and min values need to be verified. Is it possible through PACT

[MahatmaFatalError]

what is the conclusion here?

[rholshausen]

This is currently unsupported

[timvahlbrock]

I tried achieving something like this first using a string matcher with .{minValue,maxValue} and then using [\s\S]{minValue,maxValue} as . doens't match all unicode chars. However, it seems like this doesn't work either, because many UTF-16 characters are counted as one char in regex, but as two chars in Java, because they consist of two code points instead of one. To support non-ASCII character's this probably needs its own matcher in the Pact specification.

Edit: Also ran into issues like these: #1848

[timvahlbrock]

For context: jakarta validations (which as far as I know is used a lot) provides the @SiZe annotation that enforces that string fields don't exceed a certain length. If we want to prevent that before deployment, we need a way to assert the length of a string field.