Expose feature flags directly

[marvinhagemeister]

In my application I make a request upfront to load all feature flags. For as long as the fetch request is in progress, my code falls back to default values. But I can't find an API to just grab all feature flags at once. Instead I have to resort to manually grabbing of the flags:

// Have to manually pull of all keys and iterate over them to get all values :(
const keys = await client.getAllKeysAsync()
const values = await Promise.all(
  keys.map(key => client.getValueAsync(key, undefined, user))
);

const flags = keys.reduce((acc, key, i) => {
  acc[key] = values[i]
  return acc
}, {})

I'd like to get rid of that. Peeking at the code in this repo and configcat/common-js it seems like the data is all there, it's just not exposed. Is there a way to just get the record of the flags directly?

[endret]

hi @marvinhagemeister ,

It is right the data is present but the client has to evaluate each of them (it's more than return your feature flag values only). Your code is good solution for this but in this case I suggest to ensure your up to date feature flags with force refresh like this:

await client.forceRefreshAsync()
const keys = await client.getAllKeysAsync()
...

If you choose a proper polling mode client fetches the flags only once (client uses cache)!

Cheers,
Endre

[endret]

Hi,

I would like to kindly inform you that in the next release we'll introduce a new function getAllValues (returns all values of a feature flag or setting). This will be an explicit solution to your issue.

Thanks,
Endre

[marvinhagemeister]

Happy to hear that 👍