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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Hooks specification adds Requirement 4.4.8. An error in an ChangesHooks specification
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@toddbaert #429 is up for the links.
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Thanks. I've marked this as a "fix"... using sem-ver semantics for the spec is a bit weird, but I tend to think of it like:
fix: clarification of previous intent
feat: new behavior or intent
I think this falls into the former.
In any case, the change looks good to me and I like the non-normative text you've added. I'll give some time for others to weigh in.
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4.4.8 as written only constrains the value, so an SDK can satisfy it by overwriting value while still returning the provider's reason and variant — value=false but variant="on", reason=STATIC, no error code. That passes a literal requirement_4_4_8 test while conflicting with 1.4.8 and with the error scenarios in hooks.feature. One suggestion inline to make it explicit upfront. A scenario in hooks.feature for an erroring after hook would also pin this once for all SDKs instead of relying on each one writing its own test. |
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@sahidvelji Applied in 4b805ad. Updated the requirement wording and added a hooks.feature scenario asserting the default value, null variant, ERROR reason, and GENERAL error code. make lint passes locally. |
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Define the complete abnormal evaluation details.
Requirement 4.4.8 requires only the default value. Requirements 1.4.8 and 1.4.9 additionally require an error_code and recommend an error-indicating reason, but they do not require error_code=GENERAL, reason=ERROR, or variant=null. The tagged scenario therefore asserts behavior that the normative text does not fully define. Add a hook-specific requirement for these fields, or adjust the scenario.
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around “after” hook errors to define the complete abnormal evaluation result
consistently: specify whether error_code, reason, and variant are required and
their expected values, or remove those assertions from the scenario if they are
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This is valid point.
@toddbaert would you prefer loosening the scenario to the behavior already required, or defining those evaluation details normatively in 4.4.8?
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afterhook returns the default valueRelated Issues
Fixes #427
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I added a new point rather than widening 4.4.7, but that is the part worth deciding rather than assuming.
Widening 4.4.7 to say "before or after" would be the smaller diff, and it would match 4.4.5 and 4.4.6, which already cover both stages in one line. What put me off it is that it changes an existing requirement's meaning in place. SDKs name their conformance tests after the requirement, so every existing 4.4.7 test would silently stop covering the whole requirement, with nothing to tell the maintainers. A new
requirement_4_4_8gives each SDK an id to implement and track against.It also gives the rationale somewhere to live. Before hooks are abnormal execution because they can mutate the evaluation context; after hooks are abnormal execution because they can reject a resolution they consider invalid. Those are different arguments and they read poorly merged into one sentence.
The third paragraph is for your point about
errorandfinally. It states that their failures are contained by 4.4.4 and 4.4.3 and do not change the value returned to the application author, so the new requirement does not read as widening those too.Happy to switch to widening 4.4.7 instead if the TSC would rather not add a number.
For cross-SDK context, on go-sdk#566 I checked how this is implemented today: JS server and web, Java and Python all treat an after-hook error as abnormal and return the default with reason
ERRORand codeGENERAL. Rust builds the error details and then discards them, returning the originalOk, which looks unintentional. Go is the one this came from.Follow-up Tasks
requirement_4_4_8conformance test. go-sdk already behaves this way, so for Go it is a test rather than a behaviour change.Okafter building the error details. If this is agreed, that is worth its own issue againstopen-feature/rust-sdk. I can file it with the details.How to test
4.4.7 stays byte for byte unchanged and requirement_4_4_8 is appended before requirement_4_5_1.