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  • adds a new ADR for targeting metadata in flagd schema

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Adds an architecture decision for targeting results that support existing variant strings or objects with a variant and optional metadata. It documents validation, decoding, merge precedence, parse errors, telemetry, compatibility, implementation impacts, and open questions.

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Targeting variant metadata

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Targeting metadata architecture decision
docs/architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata.md
Documents the tagged-object result shape, schema constraints, typed evaluation behavior, metadata precedence, parse-error handling, chained and nested targeting examples, telemetry, compatibility expectations, implementation coverage, and open design questions.

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This documentation-only change defines how targeting metadata, boolean results, and resolution reasons are represented, but the current ADR leaves conflicting behavior that could break existing configurations or produce inconsistent telemetry. Merge should wait until those contracts and the associated migration details are clarified.

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In `@docs/architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata.md`:
- Around line 23-24: Revise the metadata plumbing statement to distinguish the
currently supported paths: confirm metadata for OFREP single/bulk and single
gRPC responses, note that this proto layer’s ResolveAll path does not yet expose
it, and remove the claim that RecordEvaluation telemetry already carries
metadata attributes. Limit the ADR’s end-to-end contract to these verified paths
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I generally like the idea, but I am missing the migration path. How do we plan to move from old version to new version, without breaking migration patterns?

I feel like we need to point out how we plan to migrate without breaking installations for others. In-process providers might be used in deprecated services and we need to give people time to migrate from one to the other.

Is it maybe time to have a version contract in the request for the flag configuration?

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In `@docs/architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata.md`:
- Around line 29-45: Update the ADR to document the migration contract for the
new tagged-object return shape, including upgrade order, behavior when an older
provider rejects it or returns PARSE_ERROR, and whether configuration requests
include a schema or feature version. Clarify that existing string configurations
remain compatible but the new format is not forward-compatible, and remove any
claim of full backward compatibility until mixed-version rollout is defined.
- Around line 47-51: Extend integration tests around evaluateVariant to cover
string results, tagged objects with and without metadata, nested if branches,
and invalid result shapes. Ensure single-key {"variant":...} objects are
supported despite jsonlogic/v3.9.1 treating them as operators by adjusting
evaluateVariant or the dependency, while preserving PARSE_ERROR for unsupported
shapes and validating metadata merging.
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23-23: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the schema publication step. schemas/json/targeting.json is the source schema in the schemas submodule. Keep the ADR reference unchanged. After changing it, run make update-public-schema to copy the schemas into docs/schema/v0/.

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In `@docs/architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata.md` at line 23, Update
the ADR to document that after modifying the source schema in the schemas
submodule, the public schema must be published by running make
update-public-schema, copying the result into docs/schema/v0/; keep the existing
ADR reference unchanged.
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In `@docs/architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata.md`:
- Line 52: Clarify the metadata merge order in the variant-object handling
description: merge the rule’s metadata first, then overlay top-level reason and
details so those explicit fields take precedence; keep the variant key behavior
unchanged.
- Around line 49-53: Update evaluateVariant in the JSON evaluator to preserve
boolean JsonLogic results by mapping true and false to the string variant keys
"true" and "false" before or during typed decoding. Keep existing string and
object-result behavior unchanged, and add integration coverage for both boolean
outcomes.
- Line 127: Rewrite the split-reason paragraph in the targeting-variant metadata
decision document: correct the “falgd” and “differnet” typos, clarify how the
engine result supplies or overrides the user-facing reason, and explicitly
distinguish metadata-only reason values from the separate top-level override
option referenced later.

Apply the same fix in `@docs/architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata.md`
at line 125: Covers the line-length and OpenFeature reference corrections for
the same paragraph.

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In `@docs/architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata.md`:
- Line 23: Update the ADR to document that after modifying the source schema in
the schemas submodule, the public schema must be published by running make
update-public-schema, copying the result into docs/schema/v0/; keep the existing
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Comment on lines +49 to +53
In `evaluateVariant` (`core/pkg/evaluator/json.go`), replace the current string-strip of the JsonLogic result with a typed decode:

- string → variant key, as today
- object with `variant` field → use it as the variant key; write `reason`/`details` (if present) into the returned metadata, then shallow-merge the rule's `metadata` object on top. Top-level `reason`/`details` win if the rule's `metadata` also sets keys of those names.
- anything else → `PARSE_ERROR`, same as an unrecognized return today

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu

printf '%s\n' '--- candidate files ---'
git ls-files | rg -i '(^|/)(target|targeting|variant|schema|json).*|architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata' | head -200

printf '%s\n' '--- relevant symbols and terms ---'
rg -n -i --glob '!node_modules/**' --glob '!dist/**' \
  'evaluateVariant|PARSE_ERROR|boolean|true.*false|false.*true|variant.*key|targeting.*schema|jsonlogic|JsonLogic' . \
  | head -400

printf '%s\n' '--- ADR excerpt ---'
sed -n '1,220p' docs/architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata.md

Repository: open-feature/flagd

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu

printf '%s\n' '--- evaluateVariant and PARSE_ERROR files ---'
git ls-files -z | xargs -0 rg -l \
  'evaluateVariant|PARSE_ERROR' \
  --glob '!docs/playground/**' --glob '!**/*.min.js' \
  | head -100

printf '%s\n' '--- relevant source matches ---'
git ls-files -z | xargs -0 rg -n \
  'evaluateVariant|PARSE_ERROR|\.toString\(\)|boolean' \
  --glob '*.go' --glob '*.json' --glob '*.yaml' --glob '*.yml' --glob '*.md' \
  | rg -v 'docs/playground|vendor|node_modules' \
  | head -500

printf '%s\n' '--- ADR ---'
wc -l docs/architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata.md
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printf '%s\n' '--- core/pkg/evaluator/json.go ---'
cat -n core/pkg/evaluator/json.go | sed -n '300,390p'

printf '%s\n' '--- boolean-targeting test ---'
cat -n core/pkg/evaluator/json_test.go | sed -n '1660,1730p'

printf '%s\n' '--- targeting schema ---'
cat -n docs/schema/v0/targeting.json | sed -n '1,50p'

printf '%s\n' '--- schema path references ---'
git ls-files | rg '(^|/)targeting\.json$|schemas/json|docs/schema'

printf '%s\n' '--- focused contract verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re

schema = Path("docs/schema/v0/targeting.json").read_text()
source = Path("core/pkg/evaluator/json.go").read_text()
tests = Path("core/pkg/evaluator/json_test.go").read_text()
adr = Path("docs/architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata.md").read_text()

checks = {
    "schema documents boolean stringification": '"true"/"false"' in schema,
    "boolean test expects stringified mapping": "did not map to stringified boolean" in tests,
    "evaluateVariant exists": "func (je *Resolver) evaluateVariant" in source,
    "ADR typed decode rejects other results": "anything else → `PARSE_ERROR`" in adr,
    "ADR claims boolean primitive untouched": "the other `primitive` entries (`null`, `boolean`, `number`, `array`) are untouched" in adr,
    "ADR schema path exists": Path("schemas/json/targeting.json").exists(),
    "tracked v0 schema exists": Path("docs/schema/v0/targeting.json").exists(),
}
for name, result in checks.items():
    print(f"{name}: {result}")

m = re.search(r'func \(je \*Resolver\) evaluateVariant\b', source)
print("evaluateVariant source offset:", m.start() if m else None)
if m:
    print(source[m.start():m.start()+1800])
PY

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printf '%s\n' '--- evaluator helpers and conversion sites ---'
rg -n -C 4 \
  'json\.Unmarshal|strconv|ParseBool|true|false|TrimSpace|Trim\(.*"' \
  core/pkg/evaluator --glob '*.go' \
  | head -500

printf '%s\n' '--- imports and type definitions ---'
cat -n core/pkg/evaluator/json.go | sed -n '1,80p'

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Preserve boolean-result compatibility.

The v0 targeting schema defines boolean rule results as "true"/"false" variant keys, and existing tests cover this behavior. Normalize booleans to those keys before the typed decode, or add an explicit boolean case. Add an integration test for both boolean results; otherwise existing configurations will return PARSE_ERROR.

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In `@docs/architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata.md` around lines 49 -
53, Update evaluateVariant in the JSON evaluator to preserve boolean JsonLogic
results by mapping true and false to the string variant keys "true" and "false"
before or during typed decoding. Keep existing string and object-result behavior
unchanged, and add integration coverage for both boolean outcomes.

In `evaluateVariant` (`core/pkg/evaluator/json.go`), replace the current string-strip of the JsonLogic result with a typed decode:

- string → variant key, as today
- object with `variant` field → use it as the variant key; write `reason`/`details` (if present) into the returned metadata, then shallow-merge the rule's `metadata` object on top. Top-level `reason`/`details` win if the rule's `metadata` also sets keys of those names.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Define the metadata merge order unambiguously.

Line 52 says to write reason and details first, then merge rule metadata on top. That order allows rule metadata to overwrite those fields, which contradicts the statement that the explicit fields win. Merge rule metadata first, then overlay reason and details, or correct the precedence statement.

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In `@docs/architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata.md` at line 52,
Clarify the metadata merge order in the variant-object handling description:
merge the rule’s metadata first, then overlay top-level reason and details so
those explicit fields take precedence; keep the variant key behavior unchanged.

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In `@docs/architecture-decisions/targeting-variant-metadata.md`:
- Around line 49-55: Clarify the contract for object results handled by
evaluateVariant: explicitly define whether its reason field updates the
top-level resolution reason consumed by RecordEvaluation, is stored only in
returned metadata, or does both. Update the documented merge and branch-scoped
reason behavior consistently so flag_evaluator receives the intended separate
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