Contract Testing about axonframework

[meierw]

Hi @smcvb .

Thanks for the response. That is very understandable.

Importantly your answer breeds confidence that we would not be reinventing the wheel if we added this new functionality ourselves.

Then my follow up question would be. Which is preferable, a pull request or a new extension/library? The way I see it, if we gave you the code via PR, we would also give you the burden of maintenance, in case there are some issues in the future that other users/developers find with the implementation. That could potentially burden your dev team later. Thoughts?

[smcvb]

That could potentially burden your dev team later.

Although true, I think that's a natural part of maintaining an open-source project. :-)
Concerning the topic of maintenance, I am not fully sure yet what this functionality would entail if I am being very honest.
Perhaps when seeing a PR, things would become clearer in that perspective.
Taking our time into consideration is very kind of you, of course, and thus much appreciated! 🙏

Which is preferable, a pull request or a new extension/library?

If the Contract Testing requires dependencies on other tooling, it would be best suited as an extension.
If it's pure Java code, or very close to it, a PR to the Axon Framework repository would be fine.

[meierw]

Understood. Will keep that in mind.

Will see what we come up with, and of course we can deliberate more when we have some POC presentable.

[smcvb]

Thanks for providing this feature request, @meierw.
Interesting idea to have a more dedicated way for contract testing in Axon Framework (or perhaps as an Extension).

As it stands, the team is mainly focused on maintenance for Axon Framework 4 and the development of Axon Framework 5.
Sadly, I am inclined to give this issue a low priority right now, due to our obligations.

Note that doesn't mean you or anybody else isn't free to provide a pull request for such functionality. It just means the Axon Framework team cannot at this stage.