Announcement Arquillian Pact 1.0.0.Alpha4

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+date: 2016-11-14
+author: lordofthejars
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+p. Arquillian Pact is an extension for writing contract-driven tests providing you seamless integration with well known "Pact":https://docs.pact.io/ framework.
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+h3. What's new
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+p. <i class="icon-star"></i> **@@Pact@ annotation can be used on the class level**
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+p. You can use @@Pact@ annotation on the class level, so method that defines a pact fragment just need to return @PactFragment@ object. In case of setting this annotation both on the class and method level, the one defined on the method will take precedence.
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+p. <i class="icon-star"></i> **Pact Publisher properties configuration**
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+p. You can configure Pact Publisher properties using Java System properties or Environment variables using Arquillian syntax. Any property value can be set using Java system property @${name:defaultValue}@ or using environment variable @${env.name:defaultValue}@. @defaulValue@ will be used if referred property is not defined.
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+h3. Bug fixing
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+p. <i class="icon-star"></i> **Using @skipDeployment@ with WildFly Swarm returns a NPE**
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+p. Skipping deployment for WildFly Swarm was resulting with NPE. This is because our URL provider was conflicting with the one Swarm implements ("#44":https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-pact/issues/44).
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+p. <i class="icon-star"></i> **Pact Publisher is not called when used with Gradle**
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+p. Pact Publisher is not called when used with Gradle due to a "bug in Gradle":https://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-3411. Since Publisher reacts to @AfterSuite@ and this event is not emitted when running in Gradle, we changed it to @AfterClass@. This has a slight impact on the performance as publishing pacts happens after each test execution instead of being triggered once in a bulk after the whole test suite execution ("#43":https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-pact/issues/43).