how to create a valid webhook which can be triggered by Provider_verification_published event in pact broker? - pact-broker

Question

to automate contract testing by leveraging pact broker webhooks, I created customized contract_content_changed event with a jenkins job. but when I was trying to add webhook for customer pipeline which is triggered by verification result publishing, it failed several times.
{"consumer": {
"name": "Consumer Service"
},
"provider": {
"name": "Provider Service"
},
"events": [
{
"name": "provider_verification_published"
}
],
"request": {
"method": "POST",
"url": "http://jenkinsserver/jobforconsumerdeployment",
"headers": {
"Accept": "application/json"
},
"body": {"VerificationResultURL","${pactbroker.verificationResultUrl}"
}
}
after removing body element, it created successfully.
by passing body to customer job, it could parse fail/pass and decide whether deployment should go or not go.
if body is not allowed, how consumer pipeline to get the result and continue next step (or stop deployment)?
I am referring to Pact Broker Webhooks.

Answer 1

Configure Jenkins job to "Trigger builds remotely" from Build Triggers section
Generate Jenkins-Crumb by the following link
Steps to create Jenkins-Crumb
Following post request in Pact-Broker is working fine for me on my
local jenkins setup (need to check jenkin permissions to enable
web-hook execution)
{
"events": [{
"name": "provider_verification_published"
}],
"request": {
"method": "GET",
"url": "http://username:password#jenkins_url/job/jenkin_consumer/build?token=abc",
"user" : "username:password",
"headers": {
"Jenkins-Crumb": "c787ce16220300f5ef8287a4474d9acxd"
}
}
}
if body is not allowed, how consumer pipeline to get the result and
continue next step (or stop deployment)?
Yes, body is not allowed in case of 'provider_verification_published' event. So to confirm the verification results, we need to use "can-i-deploy" cli to deply or stop the deployment can-i-deploy. More information provided on Pact Broker Webhooks