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Orders and Parcels keep the estate's only cross-service contract honest with Pactify - a pact written to a relative path six directories above the repository, verified against a seeded Huge Weapon, and checked for shape only. Consumer-driven contracts with no broker, read from source.
Pactify.AspNetCore in one sitting: an attribute, an assembly scan, and a /pacts/{provider} endpoint that serves your contract classes as live JSON - plus what a runtime contracts endpoint is really for.
The series retrospective - what a thirty-file library taught me that a full-featured one couldn't, Pactify's honest limit list versus PactNet, the broker maturity ladder, and the org-shaped question hiding under the tooling.
A line-by-line read of Pactify's matching engine - top-level-only body comparison, header names that ignore your casing option, nested objects that can never match, and two format-string bugs that crash the error path.
How a pact travels from the consumer's pipeline to the provider's - Pactify's file and HTTP publishers, Pact Broker URL anatomy, and the unchecked response status that makes a failed publish silently pass your build.
The provider side of Pactify - how CreateFor<Startup> hosts your whole API in memory with TestServer, why interactions verify concurrently, the SmartFormat trick behind endpoint templating, and the discovery that Given(...) never runs.
An annotated tour of the JSON document Pactify produces - the serializer settings that shape it, the snake_case field inherited from Pact v1, and the unusual decision to ship the consumer's matching options inside the contract itself.
A walk through Pactify's PactMaker fluent API - the two-interface builder trick that hides Build() from you, why the consumer test always passes, and the uninitialized-object surprise inside WithBody<T>().
Unit tests mock what you assume, end-to-end tests tell you too late - consumer-driven contract testing closes the gap, and a small open-source .NET library called Pactify is the clearest way I know to learn how it works. Part 1 of a series.
