Environment Variable JSON Flag Provider

This repository contains a very simple environment variable based feature flag provider. This provider uses a very simple JSON evaluation for matching a flag Variant to a provided EvaluationContext. Each flag Variant contains a slice of Conditions, if all Conditions match then the flags value is returned. Each Variant is evaluated starting at index 0, therefore the first matching Variant is returned. Each variant also has a TargetingKey, when set it must match the TargetingKey provided in the EvaluationContext for the Variant to be returned.

Flag Configuration Structure.

Flag configurations are stored as JSON strings, with one configuration per flag key. An example configuration is described below.

{
    "defaultVariant":"not-yellow",
    "variants": {
        "yellow": {
            "targetingKey":"user",
            "criteria": [
                {
                    "color":"yellow"
                }
            ],
            "value":true
        },
        "not-yellow": {
            "targetingKey":"user",
            "criteria": [],
            "value":false
        }
    }
}

Example Usage

Below is a simple example of using this Provider, in this example the above flag configuration is saved with the key AM_I_YELLOW.

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	fromEnv "github.com/james-milligan/of-golang-env-flag-provider/pkg"
	"github.com/open-feature/golang-sdk/pkg/openfeature"
)

func main() {
	// register the provider against the golang-sdk
	openfeature.SetProvider(&fromEnv.Provider{})
	// create a client from via the go-sdk
	client := openfeature.NewClient("am-i-yellow-client")

	// we are now able to evaluate our stored flags
	res, err := client.BooleanValueDetails(
		"AM_I_YELLOW",
		false,
		openfeature.EvaluationContext{
			Attributes: map[string]interface{}{
				"color": "yellow",
			},
		},
		openfeature.EvaluationOptions{},
	)
	fmt.Println(res, err)

	res, err = client.StringValueDetails(
		"AM_I_YELLOW",
		"i am a default value",
		openfeature.EvaluationContext{
			Attributes: map[string]interface{}{
				"color": "not yellow",
			},
		},
		openfeature.EvaluationOptions{},
	)
	fmt.Println(res, err)
}

Console output:

{AM_I_YELLOW 0 {true  TARGETING_MATCH yellow}} <nil>
{AM_I_YELLOW 1 {i am a default value   }} evaluate the flag: TYPE_MISMATCH

Common Error Response Types

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