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Version: v1.8.1

JAVA SDK usage

Install dependencies

The first things we will do is install the Open Feature SDK and the GO Feature Flag provider.

<dependency>
<groupId>dev.openfeature</groupId>
<artifactId>javasdk</artifactId>
<version>[0,)</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>dev.openfeature.contrib.providers</groupId>
<artifactId>go-feature-flag</artifactId>
<version>[0,)</version>
</dependency>

Initialize your Open Feature client

To evaluate the flags you need to have an Open Feature configured in you app. This code block shows you how you can create a client that you can use in your application.

import dev.openfeature.contrib.providers.gofeatureflag.*;
import dev.openfeature.contrib.providers.gofeatureflag.exception.*;
import dev.openfeature.sdk.*;

// ...

GoFeatureFlagProviderOptions options = GoFeatureFlagProviderOptions.builder().endpoint("http://localhost:1031/").build();
GoFeatureFlagProvider provider = new GoFeatureFlagProvider(options);

OpenFeatureAPI.getInstance().setProvider(provider);
OpenFeatureAPI api = OpenFeatureAPI.getInstance();
Client featureFlagClient = api.getClient();

Evaluate your flag

This code block explain how you can create an EvaluationContext and use it to evaluate your flag.

note

In this example we are evaluating a boolean flag, but other types are available.

Refer to the Open Feature documentation to know more about it.

// Context of your flag evaluation.
EvaluationContext userContext = new MutableContext()
.add("firstname", "john")
.add("lastname", "doe")
.add("email","john.doe@gofeatureflag.org")
.add("admin", true)
.add("anonymous", false);
// With GO Feature Flag you MUST have a targetingKey that is a unique identifier of the user.
userContext.setTargetingKey("1d1b9238-2591-4a47-94cf-d2bc080892f1");



Boolean adminFlag = featureFlagClient.getBooleanValue("flag-only-for-admin", false, userContext);
if (adminFlag) {
// flag "flag-only-for-admin" is true for the user
} else {
// flag "flag-only-for-admin" is false for the user
}

Contribute to the provider

You can find the source of the provider in the open-feature/java-sdk-contrib repository.

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