The document discusses consumer-driven contracts and their application within microservice architectures, primarily advocating the use of Spring Cloud Contract for generating stubs and tests. It outlines the workflow for both service producers and consumers, highlighting benefits such as alignment with business goals and easier service evolution. Additionally, it covers various strategies for testing legacy services and interactions related to continuous delivery pipelines.

1. Consumer Driven Contracts and
Your Microservice Architecture
Marcin Grzejszczak Adib Saikali
@mgrzejszczak @asaikali
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About Marcin
Spring Cloud developer at Pivotal working mostly on
● Spring Cloud Sleuth
● Spring Cloud Contract
● Spring Cloud Pipelines
Connect with me
● Twitter: @mgrzejszczak
● Blog: http://toomuchcoding.com
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Advisory Platform Architect at Pivotal helping customers
● Adopt cloud native application architecture patterns
● Define strategy for modernizing legacy monolithic apps
● Succeed with PCF
Connect with me
● Twitter: @asaikali
About Adib
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Just Another Day at Work
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How the code is currently organized
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Application Architecture
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Legacy
service
Customer Rental
History Service
Payment
processor
Mainframe
Audit service
Insurance
service
● Interservice calls are over http
● Legacy service that is hard to test due the dependencies it
has on other downstream services

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Testing Strategy - Hard Coded Object Stubs
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Legacy
service
Customer Rental
History Service
Payment
processor
Mainframe
Audit service
insurance
service
Hard coded
Customer
Rental History
Service Stub

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Problems with hand coding stubs
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● 1225 line JSON response
● Hard to keep hard coded
stub in sync with the api
being stubbed
● Stub does not test that
requests are made
correctly to the remote
service

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Let’s see some code
https://github.com/marcingrzejszczak/the-legacy-app
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Generating Stubs From Contracts
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Contract.make {
description """
should return a list of a charges
"""
request {
urlPath("/v1/charges") {
queryParameters {
parameter("limit", 25)
}
}
method GET()
}
response {
status 200
body($(consumer(file("charges.json")),
producer(execute('assertResponse($it)'))))
}
}
Spring Cloud
Contract
Maven/Gradle
Plugin
Wiremock stub
definition stored in
-stubs.jar
OutputsReads
Stub jar files are published to a maven repo

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Testing Strategy - Auto Generated Remote Stub
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Legacy
service
Customer Rental
History Service
Payment
processor
Mainframe
Audit service
insurance
service
Auto-generated
Customer Rental
History Service Stub
Stubs can be launched on specified a port number using
the @AutoConfigureStubRunner annotation on test classesAudit Service
integration test

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Spring Cloud Contract Auto-Generated Stub Workflow
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03
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Developer
codes a contract defining
the interaction between
a consumer and the API
using the Spring Cloud
Contract Groovy DSL
Spring Cloud Contract
Maven/gradle plugin
generates wiremock stubs
from contract definitions
packaged in -stubs.jar
published in a maven
repository
CI/CD Server runs tests
Spring Cloud Contract starts
wiremock during the test
execution and configures it
with the scenario specified
by the contract
Developer writes an
integration test and
annotates it with
@AutoConfigureStubRunner
specifying the port number
for the stub to run on

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How to involve other teams?
https://github.com/marcingrzejszczak/2017-s1p-external-contracts
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Spring Cloud Contract plugin
does more than that...
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Generating Stubs & Tests From Contracts
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Contract.make {
description """
should return a list of a charges
"""
request {
urlPath("/v1/charges") {
queryParameters {
parameter("limit", 25)
}
}
method GET()
}
response {
status 200
body($(consumer(file("charges.json")),
producer(execute('assertResponse($it)'))))
}
}
Spring Cloud
Contract
Maven Plugin
Generates
Wiremock stub
definition stored in
-stubs.jar
Reads
Stub jar files are published to a maven repo
junit integration
tests that execute
the contract against
the api

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Testing Strategy - Auto Generated tests & stubs
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Legacy
service
Customer Rental
History Service
Payment
processor
Mainframe
Audit service
Insurance
service
Auto-generated
Legacy Service Stub
Stubs can be launched on specified a port number using
the @AutoConfigureStubRunner annotation on test classes
Auto-generated
junit integration tests
Auto-generated
Legacy Service Stub
Auto-generated
stubs

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Producer of an API
● Accept pull requests from consumers
containing contract definitions
● Add spring cloud contract maven/gradle
plugin to the build file
● Run generated contract integration tests
against api
● Publish generated -stubs.jar files to the
maven repo
Spring Cloud Contract Workflow
Consumer of an API
● Write a contract that defines the
interaction with the API
● Send a pull request to the producer to
contribute the consumer contract
● Write integration tests that uses the
generated wiremock stubs
● Run integration tests as part of CD
pipeline
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Hard Problems
● How can something be added to a service without breaking the clients?
● How can something be removed from a service without breaking the clients?
● How can a service developer find out how clients are using their service?
● How to enable short release cycles and continuous delivery of services?
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Service Evolution Patterns
● Single Message Argument
● Dataset Amendment
● Tolerant Reader
● Schema Versioning
● Extension Points
● Consumer-Driven Contracts
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Provider Contract
• The implementer of a service defines the interface of the
service everyone uses the same interface
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Service
Client A
Client B

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Consumer Contract
● The consumer of a service defines their interface to the service within the
conventions / spirit of provider contract
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Service
Client A
Client B

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Consumer Driven Contracts Workflow
● Every consumer of a service must write an executable integration test that
defines how the consumer uses the service
● Each test must only test what the client cares about
● Consumer tests are sent as pull requests to the service producer
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Consumer Driven Contracts
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Source: http://martinfowler.com/articles/consumerDrivenContracts.html

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Consumer Driven Contracts
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http://www.servicedesignpatterns.com/WebServiceEvolution/ConsumerDrivenContracts

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Benefits of Consumer Driven Contracts
● Align service providers with the business goals of their consumer through the
consumer driven contracts
● Provide insights into how a service is being used by its consumers
● Make evolving services easier by reducing the amount of co-ordination
required to evolve interfaces
● Help in the configuration of continuous delivery pipelines
○ Spring Cloud Pipelines - https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-pipelines/
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Generating Stubs & Tests From Contracts
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Contract.make {
description """
should return a list of a charges
"""
request {
urlPath("/v1/charges") {
queryParameters {
parameter("limit", 25)
}
}
method GET()
}
response {
status 200
body($(consumer(file("charges.json")),
producer(execute('assertResponse($it)'))))
}
}
Spring Cloud
Contract
Maven Plugin
Generates
Wiremock stub
definition stored in
-stubs.jar
Reads
Stub jar files are published to a maven repo
junit integration
tests that execute
the contract against
the api

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@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest(classes = TheLegacyApp.class,
properties = "api.url=http://localhost:8765",
webEnvironment = NONE)
@AutoConfigureStubRunner(
ids = "com.example:the-legacy-app-stubs:+:stubs:8765"
, workOffline = true
)
public class CustomerWithStubRunnerTests {
@Autowired CustomerRentalHistoryManager manager;
@Test
public void should_return_charge_collection() {
Charges charges = manager.listAllCharges("foo");
BDDAssertions.then(charges.getCharges())
.hasSize(25);
}
}
Using Stubs on the Client Side
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Stub Runner
Automatically runs a
WireMock server
and feeds it with
stubs
downloads the JAR
with the stubs or
uses classpath to
find them

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● Messaging (Spring Integration / Stream / Apache Camel)
● Integration with Spring Mock MVC
● Maven and Gradle plugins
● Scenarios
● Dynamic pieces
● Stub Runner Boot
● JUnit rule
● Spring Cloud integration
● Pact support
What else
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Messaging
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MockMvc
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Maven & Gradle
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Scenarios
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Dynamic Pieces
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Dynamic Pieces
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NodeJs app
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Doesn’t work
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Stub Runner Boot
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Run Stub Runner Boot (java -jar)
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Run Stub Runner Boot (Spring Cloud Cli)
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Run Stub Runner Boot (Spring Cloud Cli)
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NodeJs works
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Not a Spring app? JUnit Rule FTW!
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Spring Cloud integration
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Pact support
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