feat: HTTP fetch equivalent of the gRPC FetchAllFlags - #2037
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HTTP was being a bit of a forgotten middle child here. This is to bring a bit more parity to HTTP vs gRPC. This implements the same watcher/listener as the gRPC setup to prevent any issues and also handles for the ETag/LastModified handling so that this can be a valid downstream or upstream to other flagd instances. Signed-off-by: Jamie Sinn <james.sinn@dynatrace.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 1 remains after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a configurable HTTP flag configuration endpoint at ChangesHTTP flag configuration endpoint
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds HTTP flag fetching and retains a startup/shutdown edge case where cancellation before the first synchronization can delay shutdown until the timeout and prevent immediate listener reuse. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up; the remaining documentation inaccuracies are non-blocking. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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In `@docs/reference/grpc-sync-service.md`:
- Line 33: Correct the --sources example near the source option so the provider
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In `@flagd/pkg/service/flag-sync/sync_service.go`:
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| For example, if `selector` is set to `myFlags.json`, service will stream flags observed from `myFlags.json` file. | ||
| Note that, to observe flags from `myFlags.json` file, you may use startup option `uri` like `--uri myFlags.json` or `source` option `--sources='[{"uri":"myFlags.json", provider":"file"}]`. | ||
| Note that, to observe flags from `myFlags.json` file, you may use startup option `uri` like `--uri myFlags.json` or | ||
| `source` option `--sources='[{"uri":"myFlags.json", provider":"file"}]`. |
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Fix the malformed --sources example.
The JSON is invalid because provider lacks its opening quote. A user who copies this command cannot parse the source configuration. Add the missing quote.
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| `source` option `--sources='[{"uri":"myFlags.json", provider":"file"}]`. | |
| `source` option `--sources='[{"uri":"myFlags.json", "provider":"file"}]`. |
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In `@docs/reference/grpc-sync-service.md` at line 33, Correct the --sources
example near the source option so the provider key is enclosed in quotes and the
embedded JSON is valid and copyable. Keep the existing URI, provider value, and
command structure unchanged.
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| s.logger.Warn(fmt.Sprintf("error from sync http server start: %v", err)) |
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Make initial-sync waiting observe context cancellation. If ctx is canceled before ready closes, waitForInitialSync does not observe it and Start can remain blocked for up to five seconds. Pass the context to the readiness wait and add a regression test that cancels before Emit and asserts prompt return.
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In `@flagd/pkg/service/flag-sync/sync_service.go` around lines 197 - 203, Update
the readiness wait in Start’s HTTP-server goroutine and the waitForInitialSync
flow to select on the provided context cancellation while waiting for ready,
allowing prompt return when canceled before Emit. Add a regression test that
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I would like to understand why we need an additional net listener and port. Per flagd docs, we do this with connectrpc curl -X POST \
-d '{"flagKey":"myBoolFlag","context":{}}' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
"http://localhost:8013/flagd.evaluation.v1.Service/ResolveBoolean" What prevents us from using the same approach for the sync service? |
Signed-off-by: Jamie Sinn <james.sinn@dynatrace.com>
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27-28: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winFix the incomplete selector wording.
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will attempt matchis grammatically incomplete. Change it towill attempt to match.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/reference/grpc-sync-service.md`:
- Line 24: Update the sentence describing conflicting flag keys to use a clear
possessive referent, replacing “flag's standard merge strategy” with “flagd's
standard merge strategy” or “the standard merge strategy.”
- Around line 51-52: Update the documentation around FetchAllFlags to describe
the endpoint as HTTP rather than plain HTTP, and add the documented TLS
configuration path so both plaintext and TLS transport are represented
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In `@docs/reference/grpc-sync-service.md`:
- Around line 27-28: Update the selector description in the gRPC sync service
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| flagd also serves the same flag configuration over plain HTTP, as the unary equivalent of `FetchAllFlags`. | ||
| This is useful for clients that cannot speak gRPC, and it lets one flagd instance use another as an [HTTP sync source](./sync-configuration.md). |
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Do not imply that TLS is unavailable.
The endpoint supports plaintext or TLS, but plain HTTP implies cleartext-only transport. Use HTTP instead and document the TLS configuration path so operators do not miss transport protection.
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In `@docs/reference/grpc-sync-service.md` around lines 51 - 52, Update the
documentation around FetchAllFlags to describe the endpoint as HTTP rather than
plain HTTP, and add the documented TLS configuration path so both plaintext and
TLS transport are represented accurately.
Conceptually you want the resolution service to be disparate from any service that provides the full configuration to prevent inadvertently exposing your full configuration. This was from a conversation with @toddbaert when we were discussing this functionality. Leaking a full configuration for a flagset is much more damaging than leaking the result of a resolved value. Creating a new port/listener here is a way to prevent any existing deployments that are passing the port to something like nginx/etc do not then inadvertently expose their configuration publicly. |
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The feature of connectRPC over plain GRPC is that it could serve both grpc and http requests on the same port. And I haven't researched the internals of flagd very well, but from my blackbox dummy tries I see that |
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Personally no objections on the shared port, as long as it doesn't share the same port as the the OFREP endpoint, or another endpoint that's not already enabling the full config fetch. The refactor to use the shared port doesn't seem too horrible either. I'll see how that looks |
@JamieSinn @erka I agree with @erka here... but for me it's a "nice to have" if the code isn't crazy, and there's no downside, I'm in favor of putting both on this port since they have the same exact security exposure. |
@erka this is the diff for sharing the gRPC setup. Thoughts? Signed-off-by: Jamie Sinn <james.sinn@dynatrace.com>
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HTTP was being a bit of a forgotten middle child here. This is to bring a bit more parity to HTTP vs gRPC.
This implements the same watcher/listener as the gRPC setup to prevent any issues and also handles for the ETag/LastModified handling so that this can be a valid downstream or upstream to other flagd instances.
A key slight difference is that this will return 404, not 400 on an invalid flagset selector. (eg.
potato=2) specifically because of HTTP semantics around the route accessor/v1/flags/potato%3D2, nothing is especially incorrect in a user perspective from the route accessor, but instead the path is just "not found".A 400 is returned when there is an invalid charset/character set (eg - invalid UTF8 characters) as that is genuinely a "you did something wrong" situation. It will return a 200 when a valid selector string returns an empty flagset, along with an empty flags object.