Certain input causes mock service to hang

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Certain input causes mock service to hang

[jbarton123]

Hi @bethesque - reviving an old thread here. I've noticed that this is still happening when using matchers that generate a regex pattern. I've been using the PHP Pact library and using matchers such as uuid() or dateTimeISO8601() seem to cause the service to hang.

I noticed when trying to send a curl request once it has hanged, I receive a connection refused so it is like the service has entered an unhealthy state.

What is really interesting is that this has only happened since I have hit a larger number of pacts (I have ~26 pacts to verify against now). When I remove any one of these, it seems to run ok again.

However, when I have replaced these regex matchers with the like() matcher (which I believe just checks for a matching type) this resolves the issue, the service doesn't hang and successfully verifies against all 26 pacts.

[bethesque]

Bizarre, haven't had that before. One thing to look at is that it uses JSON.load(because sometimes there are embedded Ruby classes eg. Pact::Term) not JSON.parse.

[bethesque]

Any news on this one?

[bethesque]

The uuid and dateTimeISO8601 aren't natively supported, so they must be wrappers for "terms" provided by the pact php library. Can you see if you can recreate it using https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-ruby-standalone-e2e-example ?