CLI Roadmap

[maxlinc]

I've started moving from Rake->Thor, but I'd like to further enhance the CLI so it's easier for anyone to use pacto - both ruby devs and people uses Pacto for non-ruby projects.

I've also heard that the pacto-server options are confusing, and I'd like to the current Goliath-based server with a Celluloid based server in the future. Most of the options come from Goliath, so it would be a lot of work to map those options to another server.

So I'm thinking about these as new commands:

• pacto lint [CONTRACTS]: Validates the syntax of one or more contract files. It'll start as the equivalent of "meta_validate", with a better name, but in the future it might also give tips for improving your contracts (both style or semantics).
• pacto proxy [CONTRACTS]: Start a server that acts as an reverse proxy to live services so Pacto can intercept the API for validation and reporting while clients are still talking to a real service.
• pacto stub [CONTRACTS]: Start a server that returns stubbed responses based on the contracts.
• pacto send [CONTRACTS]: Sends requests based on the contracts. The default behavior will be similar to the current "validate", but I've experimented with an --interactive mode that lets you select from available samples and review/alter the generated data before its' sent.

[maxlinc]

In the future I might also add:

• pacto convert [CONTRACTS]: This would be used to convert contracts between formats or versions to help people upgrade. We need a legacy -> swagger converter, but in the future there might also be conversion between swagger versions or even for other formats like RAML.