Should pacticipant names be case insensitve?

[canny]

It would be awesome if either:

1. Pacticipant names were case insensitve
   or
2. The broker warned when publishing or retrieving a pact if the pacticipant name differs only in case from another
   This was indirectly suggested by Subrahmanyam Rentala on slack:
   At the consumer side I provided the provider name as : ABc and at the provider side it was ABC, and again error was not user friendly to investigate

https://pact.canny.io/admin/board/feature-requests/p/should-pacticipant-names-be-case-insensitve

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Dmitry Munda - September 8, 2021

same goes maybe with tags

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Subrahmanyam Rentala - September 8, 2021

Its a simple mistake we do, but would be nice to have an appropriate error handling, or else it would be difficult to troubleshoot the issue.

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Beth - September 25, 2021

There is support for case insensitive resource name matching in the broker, but it's not supported everywhere, and I wouldn't recommend using it. I've been meaning to deprecate support for that actually, as I think it could easily lead to bugs. Adding a "did you mean..." kind of output in the output from the pacts for verification response may be possible.