Client does not return flags - self hosted api server

[ukabu]

I initialized the client with :

bulletTrain.init({
        api,
        environmentID,
        onChange: handleFlags,
        onError: handleErrors,
        defaultFlags
      })
// api="https://bullet-train-api-experiment...com/api/v1/"
// environmentID="m...G"
// defaultFlags={
//    hello_world: true
// }
  handleFlags = (flags, params) => {
    this.setState({ flags })
    console.log(flags, params, bulletTrain.getAllFlags())
  }

In the console (from the handleFlag listener) I get : {}, {isFromServer: true}, {}

The response I get from the API server is :

[{"id":2,"feature":{"id":1,"name":"hello_world","created_date":"2018-12-11T20:55:38.891097Z","initial_value":null,"description":null,"default_enabled":false,"type":"FLAG","project":1},"feature_state_value":null,"enabled":true,"environment":2,"identity":null}]

if I call bulletTrain.hasFeature("hello_world") I always get false.

[kyle-ssg]

Can you confirm this is due to using a self hosted api? I feel like this is a duplicate of #2

[ukabu]

It,s not duplicate of #2 , here, I'm loading the client from the CDN (https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bullet-train-client/lib/index.js) and it loads and connect to the API server properly. The client does receive a response from the API server that contains the feature flag, but the bulletTrain.getAllFlags() call returns an empty object. I also tried with bulletTrain.hasFeature("hello_world") and it always returns false... Even though I specified a default flag value of true` and I receive the flag (set to true) from the API server.

[ukabu]

The code seems wrong, in bullet-train-core, this calls the handleResponse(res) function, the response from the API is an array: https://github.com/SolidStateGroup/bullet-train-js-client/blob/f96cb36aabc8e77dabf790e36b78dbc9f898ec45/bullet-train-core.js#L65

But the handleResponse expect an object with the shape {flags: [], traits: []}: https://github.com/SolidStateGroup/bullet-train-js-client/blob/f96cb36aabc8e77dabf790e36b78dbc9f898ec45/bullet-train-core.js#L31

For reference, the bullet-train-fronend app interpret the response from the API as an array: https://github.com/SolidStateGroup/bullet-train-frontend/blob/e062cfd406e85c0220c2759556129a0776ae9975/web/components/TryIt.js#L22

[ukabu]

Here is the commit that switch the handling from an array to an object: 5c131e0

[kyle-ssg]

The response from getting flags is not an array since implementing user traits it is an object. Are you sure your API is set up correctly and you are using the latest version?

curl 'https://api.bullet-train.io/api/v1/identities/bullet_train_sample_user/?format=json' -H 'x-environment-key: QjgYur4LQTwe5HpvbvhpzK' -H 'Referer: http://localhost:3000/' -H 'Origin: http://localhost:3000' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36' -H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8' --compressed

[kyle-ssg]

To demonstrate this, there's a super simple react app that lets you retrieve flags+traits and toggle a user trait.
https://github.com/SolidStateGroup/bullet-train-js-client/tree/master/bullet-train-client/example

[ukabu]

Looks like my api server is not up to date. It's a bummer that the api changes in incompatible ways like that.
I will update my server and test it.

[ukabu]

Now i'm running that latest api server from github and I still get an array

curl 'https://bullet-train-api-experiment.....com/api/v1/flags/?format=json' -H 'x-environment-key: m...G' -H 'Referer: http://localhost:3000/?q=portail' -H 'Origin: http://localhost:3000' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36' -H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8' --compressed

response:

[{"id":2,"feature":{"id":1,"name":"hello_world","created_date":"2018-12-11T20:55:38.891097Z","initial_value":null,"description":null,"default_enabled":false,"type":"FLAG","project":1},"feature_state_value":null,"enabled":true,"environment":2,"identity":null}]

[ukabu]

The bug is when bulletTrain.identify(...) has not been called.

if at https://github.com/SolidStateGroup/bullet-train-js-client/blob/f96cb36aabc8e77dabf790e36b78dbc9f898ec45/bullet-train-core.js#L65

you would call handleResponse({flags: res}) instead of handleresponse(res) that would solve the problem.

[kyle-ssg]

bullet-train-client and react-native-bullet-train have been updated to 0.0.42 to incorporate this.