Dynamic values in OpenAPI Example requests

[noelmccrory]

One of the endpoints on my API accepts a startDate field in the request body. The API also has validation to ensure that the startDate is no more than 5 days in the past, and no more than 5 days in the future. In the example for this endpoint in the OpenAPI Spec I can specify today's date and the Contract Tests will pass successfully. However, in 6 days the Contract Test for this endpoint will fail because a 400 will be returned.

Is there any way to provide dynamic values in examples in OpenAPI Specs? I couldn't see anything in the Specmatic documentation or previous issues/discussions on this.

The only alternative I can think of at this point would be to mock out the Clock instance on the service, so that today is always a fixed date.

Thanks.

[yogeshnikam671]

Hey @noelmccrory, thanks for starting this thread. This is a very good scenario that you have brought up.
We are indeed working on it. Will keep you posted.