Description
Requirements
Overview
When setProvider
was first introduced, OpenFeature didn't have support for provider initialization. It was expected that a provider was initialized prior to registering it with OpenFeature. Since then, OpenFeature has added support for initialization so that the SDK could have an awareness of the provider lifecycle and is able to emit events that developers can subscribe to. Unfortunately, this meant that a provider may not be available immediately after registration. To overcome this, developers could wait for the provider ready event to fire before performing flag evaluations. A method called setProviderAndWait
was also added that returned a promise. The promise resolves when the provider is ready or is rejected if there's an error during initialization.
We've received feedback that setProviderAndWait
behaves the way people expect setProvider
to work. Also, setProviderAndWait
is not a good name in JavaScript because it does not block a thread as the name implies. For these reasons, setProvider
should be updated to behave like setProviderAndWait
and setProviderAndWait
should be removed. This will be a breaking change that will require a v2.0.0
of the server SDK.
Requirements
setProvider
returns a promise that's resolved when the provider is ready or is rejected if the provider fails during initialization.- Remove
setProviderAndWait
- Update the documentation in the readme