Spring Cloud Contract 5 drops legacy Gradle contracts folder

Sep 30, 2025·
Marcin Grzejszczak
Marcin Grzejszczak
· 1 min read

TLDR; Spring Cloud Contract 5 will no longer support the fallback src/test/resource/contracts folder. Check this PR for more information.

Welcome to another article about Spring Cloud Contract 5. Why so many articles recently? Because I finally had some time to work on that plus a major release is coming so there’s a window of opportunity to change things right now!

The Problem

For the last couple of majors we were migrating the Gradle plugin to have its own source set for contract tests. With that we’ve provided a default folder for Gradle contract tests - src/contractTest/resources/contracts. The old folder structure (src/test/resources/contracts) was deprecated and shown warnings.

The Solution

With that PR the old folder structure checking is gone and your contracts will not be read from the src/test/resources/contracts location).

Conclusion

In this short article I’ve mentioned the most important breaking change related to code removal for the upcoming Spring Cloud Contract 5 release.