How to specify Pact CLI path in Go package manager

[galaxy79]

Our CI server dont have the PACT CLI installed and the teams using the pact-go is seeing error when running the contract tests in CI server. Is there a way for teams to have the cli in their repo and mention it go package manager, so that go pact sdk can use that cli for the contract tests ? I do see similar capability exist on the node and pact node version (9) allows us to test using it

[mefellows]

It currently doesn't but I'd support a PR that allowed an environment variable to specify the path.

Come to think of it, you could also just set PATH in your build to include the folder in your project (simpler).

[r-best]

Hi Matt, I've been working on this with Govind, I got a simple test working with the change you suggested and I should be able to get a PR open for it in the next couple days. 👍
(I tried a couple ways of just changing our PATH too but there were complications in our CI server with that)

[mefellows]

No worries, thanks!

[r-best]

@mefellows Hey Matt, a couple questions about this issue
Sorry for the delay on it, my team put contract testing on the backburner for a while for other work
I had a working fix back then to add a way to specify the CLI path, but it's for v1
I see v2 doesn't really use the CLI anymore, it uses CGo bindings with a pact library instead

Are you still accepting contributions to v1? Due to other issues with our CI server we're having issues with v2, but the update I made for v1 is working fine for us

[r-best]

Ah, I see there's a v1.x.x branch, could I open a PR with my change to that?

[mefellows]

Yep, I'm happy to accept a PR to that branch.

[YOU54F]

completed and released #357 (comment)

thanks for the contribution team!