feat: HTTP fetch equivalent of the gRPC FetchAllFlags - #2037
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds HTTP flag retrieval and synchronization parity with gRPC, but cancellation during initial synchronization may delay shutdown and prevent the HTTP endpoint from being reused cleanly; related documentation examples and wording also need correction. The change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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SyncSources->>SyncService: Emit initial flag snapshots
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HTTPClient->>HTTPServer: GET /v1/flags with selector
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In `@docs/reference/grpc-sync-service.md`:
- 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.
In `@flagd/pkg/service/flag-sync/sync_service.go`:
- Around line 197-203: Update the readiness wait in Start’s HTTP-server
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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? |
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27-28: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winFix the incomplete selector wording.
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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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- Around line 27-28: Update the selector description in the gRPC sync service
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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. |
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I think we don't need github.com/soheilhy/cmux.
We should focus on buf.build/gen/go/open-feature/flagd/connectrpc/go/flagd/sync/v1/syncv1connect and use it similar to the evaluation service.
This would be a massive refactor. the cmux setup is/was the least impactful change I could reasonably setup to do this on the shared port. There's a whole ton of refactoring that needs to be done. i'd say that should be scoped to a different PR and it can be evaluated later as a result. |
Ya I agree with this - I think it should be possible but we'd be switching the implementation essentially I think there'd be some possible side effects, like the way errors are handled is slightly different in EDIT: I guess the problem is if we decide to do this later, it will break the implementation. |
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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@erka this is the diff for sharing the gRPC setup. Thoughts? Signed-off-by: Jamie Sinn <james.sinn@dynatrace.com>
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I think the big question is more around whether or not this refactor should have already been done before now because regardless of when it happens, it will be a breaking change. Thoughts on that @erka ? |
Honestly, it's hard to give advice here, as I don't know how critical this is for the business. In an ideal world, I’d prefer not to introduce a known breaking change or future workarounds. But we don't live in an ideal world, so there needs to be a balance. If it needs to be shipped, I'm fine with it. |
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@JamieSinn and I were doing some research, and we think you are right that the best thing to do is implement this with connect-go. Connect has a specific guarantee:
So, basically connect should not break anything, and should give us what we want, without a new dep. My recommendation is that @JamieSinn opens a new PR targeting this branch which does purely a connect migration without any other changes so we can review that separately, and then either merge that into this, or merge this into main and then fast-follow with the connect migration.
Internally we need an HTTP endpoint for getting all flags, and it's something I've heard requested from others as well at Kubecons for some basic CI integration and checks (you can imaging that calling an HTTP endpoint is much easier than gRPC from some automation). But - again - I think my recommendation is not to implement this as is, but instead use connect, and @JamieSinn is working on that now - we'll just do it in a separate PR to keep the changes unmixed. That will bring flagd into further consistency anyway since the evaluation.proto implementation is also based on connect. Thanks again @erka , it was a good callout. |
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We should probably add a |
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| if !errors.As(err, &fetchErr) { | ||
| fetchErr = fetchError{kind: fetchStoreRead, cause: err} | ||
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| if !errors.As(err, &fetchErr) { | |
| fetchErr = fetchError{kind: fetchStoreRead, cause: err} | |
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| fetchErr, ok := errors.AsType[fetchError](err) | |
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| for _, selector := range []string{"", "source=" + testSource1, "source=" + testSource2} { | ||
| t.Run("selector="+selector, func(t *testing.T) { | ||
| grpcResp, err := grpcHandler.FetchAllFlags(context.Background(), |
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| grpcResp, err := grpcHandler.FetchAllFlags(context.Background(), | |
| grpcResp, err := grpcHandler.FetchAllFlags(t.Context(), |
| ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(t.Context()) | ||
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I believe we could just use ctx := t.Context() here. There are tests with similar setup. Probably it was not modernized with recent additions to the go standard test library.
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| l.Info(fmt.Sprintf("starting flag sync service at %s", cfg.SocketPath)) | ||
| lis, err = net.Listen("unix", cfg.SocketPath) | ||
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| l.Info(fmt.Sprintf("starting flag sync service on port %d", cfg.Port)) | ||
| lis, err = net.Listen("tcp", fmt.Sprintf(":%d", cfg.Port)) | ||
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could we move this down after the cert condition (to the order it was originally where listener was created at the last step) ? I don't want to worry about that lis.Close() if there is an issue with tls certs.
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I would like to see Shutdown with some context.Timeout(with 5 or 10 seconds) so the non-stream requests would have a chance to finish without interruption.
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It would be nice to log this error if any. We may use debug level but I am sure that there will be a case when people would like see this error in future.
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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.