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  • allows bucketing on all attribute types, not just string (bool, numeric, object)
  • uses CBOR for deterministic object hashing
  • ⚠️ pseudorandom bucket assignment may change; be sure to update all flagd components to keep assignments consistent in all runtimes

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Update fractional bucketing in openfeature-flagd-core to use canonical CBOR encoding and unsigned 32-bit MurmurHash3 per the latest flagd specification.

  • Implement number normalization for float/int consistency per specification

  • Support non-string targeting keys and null bucketing keys returning None

  • Use [flagKey, targetingKey] CBOR array for shorthand bucketing syntax

  • Update flagd-testbed submodule to v3.10.1 and select @fractional-v3 tests

  • Add unit tests for null handling, zero equivalence, float equivalence, and ordering

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Fixes #324

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The fractional operator now normalizes bucket keys and hashes canonical CBOR bytes. Tests cover non-string keys, numeric normalization, invalid weights, and encoding failures. Provider defaults, exports, e2e configuration, context handling, and event assertions also changed.

Changes: Fractional evaluation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Canonical fractional evaluation
tools/openfeature-flagd-core/pyproject.toml, tools/openfeature-flagd-core/src/openfeature/contrib/tools/flagd/core/targeting/custom_ops.py
The fractional operator normalizes bucket keys, encodes them as canonical CBOR, validates targeting keys and weights, and handles encoding failures.
Fractional behavior validation
tools/openfeature-flagd-core/tests/test_targeting.py, providers/openfeature-provider-flagd/tests/test_targeting.py
Core tests cover non-string keys, numeric normalization, dictionary ordering, invalid weights, and encoding failures. Provider test expectations reflect the updated fractional behavior.

Provider and test alignment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider test alignment
providers/openfeature-provider-flagd/src/openfeature/contrib/provider/flagd/resolvers/process/custom_ops.py, providers/openfeature-provider-flagd/tests/e2e/*, providers/openfeature-provider-flagd/openfeature/test-harness
The provider re-exports normalize_numbers. E2e feature filters, string context handling, event assertions, and the test harness revision are updated.

Retry defaults

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retry default adjustments
providers/openfeature-provider-flagd/src/openfeature/contrib/provider/flagd/config.py
The default retry backoff maximum changes to 5000 milliseconds. The default retry grace period changes to 10 seconds.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Fractional
  participant NormalizeNumbers
  participant Cbor2
  Fractional->>NormalizeNumbers: normalize bucket key
  NormalizeNumbers-->>Fractional: normalized key
  Fractional->>Cbor2: encode canonical CBOR
  Cbor2-->>Fractional: encoded bytes
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2d736

The fractional bucketing changes look consistent with the stated intent. One minor test-helper concern remains: unconditional backslash collapsing in e2e context handling could alter test inputs. This only affects test fidelity, so merge risk is low.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2d736

Existing fractional assignments can change, so mixed-version deployment or one-sided rollback can produce inconsistent feature decisions. The inspected changes do not introduce a production network entrypoint or additional privileges. Cross-runtime deployment coordination and the longer outage grace period remain relevant operational risks.

Retained concerns

  • Low · architecture · inferred: Old and new evaluators can select different variants for identical flag and context inputs during a rolling upgrade or one-sided rollback. The shared Python implementation prevents a local fork, but cannot preserve assignment consistency with evaluators still using raw-string hashing. This is an acknowledged breaking compatibility consequence, not a demonstrated authorization bypass.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated assignment impact is on flags whose configured targeting invokes fractional evaluation in consuming applications. The code establishes variant-selection reachability, but does not establish an authorization, tenant-isolation, credential, or infrastructure-control sink downstream of those decisions.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Through the targeting entrypoint, context attributes cannot replace evaluator-generated $flagd metadata: it is overwritten after copying attributes. The targetingKey used by shorthand is likewise taken from the evaluation-context field. Resolved variants are checked against the flag configuration.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Grace timers are not connection-generation-owned: transient-failure callbacks replace the stored timer, recovery cancels only the stored timer, and error callbacks do not recheck active or connected state. RPC shutdown cancels its stored timer; watcher shutdown only stops activity and closes the channel. These lifecycle weaknesses predate this PR; the PR changes their timing parameters, not their ownership model.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Use connection-generation ownership for outage timers, with idempotent scheduling and cleanup on recovery and shutdown, so an obsolete callback cannot emit a late error or clear a recovered cache.
  • proposed — Coordinate fractional-contract upgrades and rollback across evaluator populations, using shared assignment vectors to confirm numeric normalization, shorthand construction, canonical encoding, and hash parity before mixed-runtime traffic is accepted.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 2

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Out of Scope Changes check Warning The changes to DEFAULT_RETRY_BACKOFF_MAX and DEFAULT_RETRY_GRACE_PERIOD_SECONDS in config.py are unrelated to [#324]. The linked issue concerns fractional evaluation and hashing consistency. No linked… Revert the retry default changes in config.py, or link them to a separate active coding requirement.
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 36.11% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 36 functions across 10 files. (2 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: fractional bucketing now supports any context type. It is concise and related to the changeset, despite minor punctuation issues.
Description check Passed The description accurately summarizes CBOR hashing, number normalization, non-string targeting keys, changed bucket assignments, test updates, and the linked issue.
Linked Issues check Passed [#324] The PR implements canonical CBOR hashing with unsigned 32-bit MurmurHash3. It normalizes integral floats recursively, supports non-string bucket keys, returns None for null or invalid shorthand…
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In `@providers/openfeature-provider-flagd/tests/e2e/step/context_steps.py`:
- Line 35: Remove the backslash-pair replacement in update_context so String
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Looks good! Same as Java as far as I can tell, and testbed/tags match.

Just like Java, the only thing I would recommend is we agree on a release strategy. I started a slack conversation with you and @NeaguGeorgiana23

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Implementation looks good, but blocking for now so that we can merge/release in sync, probably in the 2nd week of October.

@toddbaert toddbaert changed the title feat(flagd-core): update fractional operator to CBOR encoding (v3) feat!: bucket on any context type; (fractional re-assignment) Oct 13, 2026
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Update fractional bucketing in openfeature-flagd-core to use canonical CBOR encoding and unsigned 32-bit MurmurHash3 per the latest flagd specification.

- Implement number normalization for float/int consistency per specification

- Support non-string targeting keys and null bucketing keys returning None

- Use [flagKey, targetingKey] CBOR array for shorthand bucketing syntax

- Update flagd-testbed submodule to v3.10.1 and select @fractional-v3 tests

- Add unit tests for null handling, zero equivalence, float equivalence, and ordering

Signed-off-by: Marcin Olko <molko@google.com>
…verage

Resolve test failures and incompatibilities introduced by bumping the flagd-testbed to v3.10.1, along with linting and coverage fixes:

- Fix ruff SIM102 in tools/openfeature-flagd-core custom_ops.py

- Add test for CBOR serialization failure to ensure 100% patch coverage

- Update unit test expected values in openfeature-provider-flagd for CBOR bucketing

- Configure file and RPC e2e test filters for fractional v2/v3 tags

- Update default retry backoff max (5000) and grace period (10) per testbed v3.10.1 specification

- Add missing 'error event handler should not have been executed' step definition from bumped testbed

Signed-off-by: Marcin Olko <molko@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcin Olko <molko@google.com>
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toddbaert force-pushed the feat/cbor-fractional-core branch from 70cff0b to 8e40940 Compare October 15, 2026 20:18
Signed-off-by: Todd Baert <todd.baert@dynatrace.com>
Signed-off-by: Todd Baert <todd.baert@dynatrace.com>
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toddbaert merged commit e4681b0 into open-feature:main Oct 15, 2026
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[flagd] [FEATURE] Harden Hashing Consistency And Add Support For Non-string Attributes in Fractional Evaluation

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