Spring Cloud Contract 5.0.1 released - upgrade!
TLDR; Spring Cloud Contract 5.0.1 is released with some critical bug fixes. Please upgrade!
The Problem
With the release of Spring Cloud Contract 5.0.0 we’ve bumped the prerequiste of Maven version to be 3.9. Two big problems appeared after the release
The first one was an easy fix and IMO not great coding assumption by Maven (why assume null lists instead of an empty one).
The second one was super tricky. I honestly didn’t understand why the classes are not on the classpath. They had to be there!!11!!!
Well… not really because of this Maven issue. It turns out that Maven is filtering out the classes from the ClassLoader unless you have the components injected by Maven.
The Solution
The first issue got fixed here.
The second one is more interested in got fixed here.
The release of Spring Cloud Contract 5.0.1 is in Maven Central already so if you’re using Maven Plugin please be sure that you upgrade to the latest version.