Retrofit vs Pactflow: What are the differences?

What is Retrofit? A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java. Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface.

What is Pactflow? Fast, easy and reliable testing for your APIs and microservices. Deploy into production with impunity, and have visibility into the integration of your stack. It ensures that all components are communicating correctly before a release, without costly and brittle integration tests. We integrate with Pact and Spring Cloud Contract, enabling powerful collaboration features for the enterprise.

Retrofit and Pactflow can be categorized as "API" tools.

Some of the features offered by Retrofit are:

• URL parameter replacement and query parameter support
• Object conversion to request body (e.g., JSON, protocol buffers)
• Multipart request body and file upload

On the other hand, Pactflow provides the following key features:

• Integration: Integrates with Pact and Spring Cloud Contract contract testing frameworks
• Webhook management: integrate Webhooks to orchestrate a CI/CD pipeline
• SSO: Login with Google, Github or an OIDC/SAML provider

Retrofit is an open source tool with 35.2K GitHub stars and 6.47K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Retrofit's open source repository on GitHub.