Spring Cloud Contract：从场景中的先前响应获取参数

Question

I wrote the scenario in spring cloud contract. On first request my app return token in response and second request should contain this token. Is there any possibility to pass a value from first response to second request?

Now I use in test another implementation of token generator, which returns predefined tokens, but I want to remove it and use real token generator.

Example of scenario:

1_getToken.groovy

org.springframework.cloud.contract.spec.Contract.make {
    description = 'receive token'
    request {
        method 'POST'
        url '/getToken'
        body("""
            {
            }
         """)
        headers {
            header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
        }
    }
    response {
        status 200
        body("""
            {
                "token":"123"
            }
         """)
    }
}

2_addSmth.groovy

org.springframework.cloud.contract.spec.Contract.make {
    description = 'add somethingh'
    request {
        method 'POST'
        url '/addSmth'
        body("""
            {
                "token":"123",
                "value":"something"
            }
         """)
        headers {
            header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
        }
    }
    response {
        status 200
        body("""
            {
            }
         """)
    }
}

ie I want pass parameter "token" from first response to second request. Is it possible?

Answer 1

I don't think that it's possible at this point. You should hard code it. If you need very concrete values then most likely your contract tests are too complicated. Or even most likely they are no longer contract tests but you try to use contracts to verify the business behaviour