PactBroker and IgnoreNoPactsToVerify

[ralfovelgoenne]

I set up a test requesting PACTs from PactBroker. Everything works fine if the PACT Broker is up and running. By using the PACT Broker the tests are depending on a running PACT Broker and a valid connection to it. I want to prevent that if the PACT Broker is temporarily down or the developer does not have a valid connection to it the build breaks locally.
Therefore I used @IgnoreNoPactsToVerify in the test.
But if the connection fails the tests do fail by:
2021-04-09
08:08:56 SEVERE au.com.dius.pact.core.pactbroker.HalClient Failed to fetch the root HAL document
java.net.UnknownHostException: pact-broker.net

Is there are way to ignore this in case the connection fails to PACT Broker?

The header of my test class:
@RunWith(PactRunner.class)
@Provider("TestApp")
@IgnoreNoPactsToVerify(ignoreIoErrors = "true")
@PactBroker(host="pact-broker.net", port = "80", authentication = @PactBrokerAuth(username = "test", password = "test"))
public class ExamplePactTest extends JerseyTest {
..

[uglyog]

What version of Pact-JVM are you using?

[ralfovelgoenne]

I am using 4.1.15. I did also try with latest 4.1.19, same result. 4.2.x seems not to be available for Java 8 (I am still stuck to it).

[uglyog]

4.1.20 has been released

[ralfovelgoenne]

Thanks for that, it works for me. Greetings to Melbourne.