I am using scalapact for CDC test.
My tests are running fine and the pact file is generated under target>pacts folder.
I have another folder "files" where I want those pact files to be generated after running the pact tests.
Is there any way I configure the default path for pact files?
This is an area that needs some attention in Scala-Pact, however, someone kindly did a PR for us a while ago that lets you set an environment variable called pact.rootDir.
In practice, on linux/mac that variable is a bit tricky to set because of the ., so exporting it or just using -Dpact.rootDir="<my desired path>" in the command arguments doesn't seem to work. Instead, you need to do this:
env "pact.rootDir=<my desired path>" bash. I haven't tried this on Windows so I don't know if you'd have the same issue.
I've just raised an issue to try and make this easier in the future: https://github.com/ITV/scala-pact/issues/101
As an alternative, note that the pact directory is really kind of a scratch/tmp area to allow Scala-Pact to compile it's output. If you're running this as part of a build script, you may just want to add a step to copy the assets to a new location once they've been generated.
Also, for some reason we made reading from a directory way easier than writing to one. If you need to read from a dir such as during verification, you can just add --source <my desired path> on the command line.
Hope that helps.