docs: amend ADR 0009 to define cache behavior with no targeting key - #87
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| The `targetingKey` is optional, so a provider may be asked to evaluate a context without one. Providers must still evaluate normally and must not raise `TARGETING_KEY_MISSING`, but they should not persist the result. | ||
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| Without a `targetingKey` the cache key carries no identity, so it reduces to the OFREP resource inputs (base URL, auth credential, and bound `domain`) and is identical for every context against that resource. Nothing invalidates the entry when the subject or the rest of the context changes. An application that signs a user out and continues anonymously, or that changes anonymous properties such as `country` or `plan`, would be served the previous evaluation even though the server would return different values. |
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ETag can supplement for the identity, if the response is the same, the cache is still valid even after changing the targeting properties.
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How would you use the ETag in the offline case? To me, when we can get an ETag, the cache is not needed anyways.
Do you just mean to not update the cache when the ETag is the same?
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- Line 244: Update the ADR’s static-context workflow for POST
/ofrep/v1/evaluate/flags to match the bulk request contract: either document the
required targetingKey or change the workflow to use a request that supports
contexts without one. Do not claim the bulk request can evaluate a context
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| The `targetingKey` is optional, so a provider may be asked to evaluate a context without one. Providers must still evaluate normally and must not raise `TARGETING_KEY_MISSING`, but they should not persist the result. |
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Align the bulk OFREP contract with the missing-targetingKey rule.
The ADR's static-context workflow refreshes through POST /ofrep/v1/evaluate/flags. When the provider sends a context without targetingKey, the bulk request's shared context schema requires that field, and the API documents 400 INVALID_CONTEXT when it is absent. Request validation can therefore reject the evaluation before the provider can evaluate normally. Allow this context in the OFREP contract and validation, or revise the ADR to match the required wire field.
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Update the ADR’s static-context workflow for POST /ofrep/v1/evaluate/flags to
match the bulk request contract: either document the required targetingKey or
change the workflow to use a request that supports contexts without one. Do not
claim the bulk request can evaluate a context missing targetingKey while its
schema rejects it.
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Looks good! Left some minor thoughts.
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| Proposed amendment (2026-06-19): tie the cache key to the OFREP resource the evaluation was fetched from by including the provider's bound `domain`, the OFREP base URL, and the auth credential, in addition to the `targetingKey`, and expose a cache-key generator function so applications can customize the key. See [open-feature/spec#393](https://github.com/open-feature/spec/pull/393). | ||
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| Proposed amendment (2026-09-29): do not persist evaluations for contexts with no `targetingKey`, since the cache key would then carry no identity and the entry could be served to a different subject. Applications that want persistence for anonymous contexts opt in with a cache-key generator. |
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I can't find it anymore but I think we discussed this before.
Proposed amendment is an accepted one after merge isn't it? Should we leave put the proposed?
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| The `targetingKey` is optional, so a provider may be asked to evaluate a context without one. Providers must still evaluate normally and must not raise `TARGETING_KEY_MISSING`, but they should not persist the result. | ||
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| Without a `targetingKey` the cache key carries no identity, so it reduces to the OFREP resource inputs (base URL, auth credential, and bound `domain`) and is identical for every context against that resource. Nothing invalidates the entry when the subject or the rest of the context changes. An application that signs a user out and continues anonymously, or that changes anonymous properties such as `country` or `plan`, would be served the previous evaluation even though the server would return different values. |
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How would you use the ETag in the offline case? To me, when we can get an ETag, the cache is not needed anyways.
Do you just mean to not update the cache when the ETag is the same?
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| Without a `targetingKey` the cache key carries no identity, so it reduces to the OFREP resource inputs (base URL, auth credential, and bound `domain`) and is identical for every context against that resource. Nothing invalidates the entry when the subject or the rest of the context changes. An application that signs a user out and continues anonymously, or that changes anonymous properties such as `country` or `plan`, would be served the previous evaluation even though the server would return different values. | ||
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| Providers should therefore treat a context with no `targetingKey` as non-persistable, neither reading nor writing an entry, so `local-cache-first` behaves like `disabled` for that context. A provider holding an entry from an earlier context that had a `targetingKey` should clear it when the `targetingKey` is removed. |
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I feel like this is the only way to go here but I am worried that this detail could be very confusing to app authors. They might build an app with offline capabilities without knowing that and be confused about this.
I think the only solution is documenting this well in the provider READMEs.
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targetingKey: evaluate normally, do not raiseTARGETING_KEY_MISSING, but do not persist the result.targetingKeythe cache key carries no identity, so one entry is shared by every context against that OFREP resource and can be served to a different subject, for example after a sign-out that continues anonymously.local-cache-firstbehaves likedisabledfor such contexts, and an entry from an earlier context that had atargetingKeyis cleared when thetargetingKeyis removed.targetingKeyalone.Related Issues
Depends on #86, which makes
targetingKeyoptional in the evaluation context schema.