pact-jvm: Since 4.3.16 pact publish configuration can not be found

Any updates on this one? I’m also facing that issue with newer versions.

I am experiencing a similar issue to what @eloo posted above. Prior to version 4.3.16 we were using the following configuration:

pactPublish.dependsOn test

With the update to 4.3.16 and on 4.4.x I receive the following error whenever I try to run gradle pactPublish You must add a pact publish configuration to your build before you can use the pactPublish task

Trying on 4.5.0 I see the new error:

A problem was found with the configuration of task ':pactPublish' (type 'PactPublishTask').
  - In plugin 'au.com.dius.pact' type 'au.com.dius.pact.provider.gradle.PactPublishTask' property 'pactPublish' doesn't have a configured value.
    
    Reason: This property isn't marked as optional and no value has been configured.
    
    Possible solutions:
      1. Assign a value to 'pactPublish'.
      2. Mark property 'pactPublish' as optional.
    
    Please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/7.5.1/userguide/validation_problems.html#value_not_set for more details about this problem.

I tried using the workaround mentioned above, like so, but I still get the same error.

pactPublish {
    dependsOn test
    pactPublish = project.pact.publish
}

Is there a different way to specify a dependency that should be used in place of this? Prior to 4.3.16 it was all working as expected.

Appending this to the previous example is a strange/buggy but working workaround:

pactPublish {
    pactPublish = project.pact.publish
}