I want to test a contract where one field is of type java.time.Instant. But not all instances of an Instant are handled as I expect by spring-cloud-contract. Given the following simple contract:
Contract.make {
description("Get a version")
request {
method 'GET'
url '/config/version'
headers {
contentType(applicationJson())
}
}
response {
status 200
body(
nr: 42,
creationDate: producer(anyIso8601WithOffset())
)
headers {
contentType(applicationJson())
}
}
}
And this service implementation:
@RestController
public class VersionController {
@GetMapping(path = "/version")
public ResponseEntity<Version> getCurrentVersion() {
return ResponseEntity.ok(new Version(42, Instant.ofEpochMilli(0)));
}
}
Executing gradle test works fine. But if I replace the Instant with Instant.now(), my provider test fails with
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Parsed JSON [{"nr":42,"creationDate":"2018-11-11T15:28:26.958284Z"}] doesn't match the JSON path [$[?(@.['creationDate'] =~ /([0-9]{4})-(1[0-2]|0[1-9])-(3[01]|0[1-9]|[12][0-9])T(2[0-3]|[01][0-9]):([0-5][0-9]):([0-5][0-9])(\.\d{3})?(Z|[+-][01]\d:[0-5]\d)/)]]
which is understandable because Instant.now() produces an Instant whose string representation does indeed not match the anyIso8601WithOffset()
pattern. But why is this? Why are Instants represented differently and how can I describe a contract that validates for any instant?