Service end point with path variable is causing 404 with cloud contract

Question

I wrote a contract and the plugin autogenerated tests out of it. I'm seeing a very strange behavior with these autogenerated tests.

Following is my service endpoint:

@RequestMapping(value="/check/{id}" method= RequestMethod.GET, produces = Media.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
public ResponseEntity<List<Application>> getApplications(
@PathVariable (value = "id") String id){

   return appService.findAll(id);
}

And here is the contract:

Contract.make {
    request {
        method GET()
        url '/check/1234567'
    }
    response {
        status 200
        body("""
            {
                .........
            }
            """)
        headers {
            contentType(applicationJson())
        }
    }
}

As I run "mvn clean install" tests are autogenerated and run. This works fine with the above contract and test passes perfectly.

However, if I change the data in the path to "/check/12345678" it starts failing.

The thing that I'm not able to understand is my endpoint is taking id path varaible which is a String type. For this type of path any value should be good. However the following paths work:

    url '/check/1234567'
    url '/check/12'
    url '/check/12347'

And following doesn't work:

    url '/check/12345678' //added just one more digit
    url '/check/aa4567'   //prepended characters 
    url '/check/123aa'    //appended characters

It would be great If I can get an explanation about this behavior, or how to resolve it. Practically any string should work. For example "/check/234df-dfs-fs234fds-sdf-fssd3rr"

Answer 1

You may try with urlPattern instead of url, replace

url '/check/1234567'

for

urlPattern '/check/[0-9]+'