[m-olko]

• allows bucketing on all attribute types, not just string (bool, numeric, object)
• uses CBOR for deterministic object hashing
• ⚠️ pseudorandom bucket assignment may change; be sure to update all flagd components to keep assignments consistent in all runtimes

This PR

Implements newest fractional operator behavior and adds related tests from gherkin test suite.

Implementations of same feature in other languages:
Python
Java

Related Issues

Fixes #14

How to test

bazelisk test //providers/flagd/tests/evaluator:flagd_fractional_op_test

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📝 Walkthrough

Adds QCBOR integration and JSON conversion for evaluation attributes. Reworks flagd fractional evaluation to use deterministic CBOR hashing and JSON variant selection. Replaces V2 tests with V3 coverage for supported types, structures, validation, weights, and conditions.

Changes: flagd fractional evaluation v3

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Context conversion and QCBOR integration MODULE.bazel, providers/flagd/qcbor.BUILD, providers/flagd/src/evaluator/BUILD, providers/flagd/src/evaluator/evaluator.cpp	Adds the QCBOR dependency and converts openfeature::Value and nlohmann::json attributes into targeting JSON.
Deterministic fractional evaluation providers/flagd/src/evaluator/flagd_ops.cpp	Uses deterministic CBOR encoding and MurmurHash3 for fractional bucketing. Validates inputs, parses distributions inline, and selects JSON variants.
Fractional V3 validation coverage providers/flagd/tests/evaluator/flagd_fractional_op_test.cpp	Updates expected V3 results and adds coverage for value types, numeric limits, structures, UTF-8, validation errors, weights, conditions, and nested logic.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ContextToJson
  participant Fractional
  participant QCBOR
  participant MurmurHash3
  ContextToJson->>Fractional: provide JSON bucketing value
  Fractional->>QCBOR: encode deterministic CBOR
  QCBOR->>Fractional: return encoded bytes
  Fractional->>MurmurHash3: hash encoded bytes
  MurmurHash3-->>Fractional: return hash value
  Fractional-->>Fractional: select JSON variant

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Suggested reviewers: toddbaert

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f2e74

Fractional bucketing now hashes typed context values deterministically. Several small issues remain open: very large configured weights are not range-checked, the hash length guard is missing, a few Unicode test cases do not test the characters they intend to, and a lint failure may still be present. None of these is likely to break typical flag evaluations, but they should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f2e74

The new bucketing format intentionally changes assignments and requires coordinated upgrades where runtimes must agree. The expanded serialization path also loses an existing hash-input length safeguard and does not enforce a payload or nesting budget. Host-process availability could be affected if applications pass sufficiently large or deeply nested untrusted context. Deployment-specific exposure remains unverified.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: The widened context-to-native-serialization boundary does not enforce a byte or nesting budget. Unlike the base implementation, head passes the encoded size to MurmurHash3 through an unchecked int conversion after allocating the CBOR buffer. Successful encoding does not establish that this length satisfies the hash routine's contract. Recursive traversal also occurs before final encoder-error checks. Where callers admit sufficiently large or deeply nested hostile context, this can undermine host-process failure containment; practical exploitability and upstream limits are unverified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Potential hostile-input exposure depends on an application forwarding attacker-influenced context. Hashing exposure additionally requires a configured rule to select that value. The supported failure scope is the provider's host process and colocated evaluations; remote reachability, tenant sharing, and fleet-wide exposure are not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The newly identified conditional attack path is caller-controlled context to recursive conversion or encoding, then allocation and native hashing without a preserved length bound. Excessive nesting or size can escape ordinary status-based failure containment. This is not a demonstrated remote exploit or an authorization bypass.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Context remains evaluation data, while configured targeting logic selects operations and distributions. Head rejects null bucketing input, requires a string targetingKey for shorthand, validates distribution shape and floating-point weight integrality, and checks both encoder completion statuses. These controls do not impose a successful-output byte limit or application recursion budget.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Bucketing uses per-call local state and reads a const flag snapshot rather than reserving or mutating shared assignments. Ordinary operation errors reach existing configured-default or caller-default resolution. The inspected exception handler covers final variant conversion, not context conversion, CBOR allocation, or native hashing failures.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define and enforce context depth, node-count, and encoded-byte budgets before expensive traversal and allocation. Validate that successful encoded lengths fit the native hash parameter, and route budget failures through explicit evaluation-error behavior.
• proposed — Define an upgrade and rollback compatibility policy for deployments that require consistent cohorts across runtimes, using shared conformance vectors and explicit treatment of mixed-version operation.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 19.35% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 31 functions across 5 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description directly explains the new non-string bucketing support, deterministic CBOR hashing, fractional behavior changes, compatibility impact, related issue, and test command.
Title check		The title clearly identifies the primary changes: bucketing on any context type and fractional reassignment behavior.
Linked Issues check		Issue #14 requires the flagd provider changes for non-string fractional random units and consistent hashing. The PR adds deterministic CBOR encoding for JSON values, orders object keys deterministical…
Out of Scope Changes check		The QCBOR dependency and Bazel target support the deterministic CBOR implementation. Context conversion changes provide JSON values for fractional evaluation. The evaluator changes and expanded tests …

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Actionable comments posted: 4

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providers/flagd/src/evaluator/evaluator.cpp (1)

100-100: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Log the unsupported openfeature::Value type before the null fallback.

ValueToJson returns JSON null for any type it cannot map. The attribute then reaches the targeting data as null, and Fractional rejects it later with "Fractional evaluation data cannot be null". The original type is lost. Add a warning here so the root cause stays visible.

♻️ Proposed change

+  LOG(WARNING) << "Unsupported openfeature::Value type; mapping to JSON null";
   return nullptr;
 }

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In `@providers/flagd/src/evaluator/evaluator.cpp` at line 100, In ValueToJson, log
a warning identifying the unsupported openfeature::Value type immediately before
the existing nullptr fallback, then preserve the current null return behavior.

providers/flagd/tests/evaluator/flagd_fractional_op_test.cpp (1)

193-199: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move the repeated eval lambda into the fixture.

This lambda is duplicated in nine tests, including lines 219-225, 238-244, 253-259, 280-286, 309-315, 348-354, 388-394, and 406-412. Add one fixture method that builds the data, applies MakeBasicFlagLogic(), and asserts success.

♻️ Proposed refactor

   json MakeBasicFlagLogic() {
     ...
   }
+
+  json EvalBasic(const json& hashing_input) {
+    json data = json::object();
+    data["hashing_input"] = hashing_input;
+    auto res = json_logic_.Apply(MakeBasicFlagLogic(), data);
+    EXPECT_TRUE(res.ok()) << res.status().message();
+    return res.ok() ? res.value() : json();
+  }

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In `@providers/flagd/tests/evaluator/flagd_fractional_op_test.cpp` around lines
193 - 199, Add a shared fixture method for fractional flag evaluation that
accepts the JSON value, builds hashing_input data, applies MakeBasicFlagLogic(),
and asserts a successful result before returning it. Replace the duplicated
local eval lambdas across the affected tests with this fixture method,
preserving their existing assertions and behavior.

MODULE.bazel (1)

39-44: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin qcbor to a commit.

git_repository is already correctly bound with use_repo_rule. Replace tag = "v1.6.1" with the commit SHA for that release to keep the fetched source reproducible.

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In `@MODULE.bazel` around lines 39 - 44, Update the qcbor git_repository
declaration to replace tag "v1.6.1" with the exact commit SHA corresponding to
that release, while preserving the existing repository name, build file, remote,
and use_repo_rule binding.

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Inline comments:
In `@providers/flagd/src/evaluator/flagd_ops.cpp`:
- Around line 240-241: Update both vector return statements in EncodeCborKey and
the corresponding path around lines 252–253 to use braced initializer lists,
satisfying modernize-return-braced-init-list. Simplify EncodeCborKey to rely on
the size-calculation pass for the exact encoded length and remove the
stack-buffer retry so the key is not encoded multiple times.
- Around line 496-497: Restore the input-length guard before the
MurmurHash3_x86_32 call in the hashing path: validate that encoded.len does not
exceed INT_MAX before converting it to int, and preserve the prior rejection
behavior for oversized inputs. Use the existing CalculateHash-related flow or
nearest enclosing evaluator symbol, and only invoke MurmurHash3_x86_32 after the
bound check succeeds.
- Around line 449-450: Update the weight handling near the existing is_number()
check to validate and clamp numeric values to the int32_t range before
converting them, preserving nonnegative semantics. Ensure large integers and
out-of-range floating-point values cannot wrap or trigger undefined narrowing,
so the later maximum-sum guard receives the correctly bounded weight.

In `@providers/flagd/tests/evaluator/flagd_fractional_op_test.cpp`:
- Around line 419-421: Update the eval inputs in the relevant
fractional-operation tests to use actual embedded NUL, combining-accent, and
emoji characters rather than escaped-text sequences. Re-derive and update the
expected bucket values from the Gherkin suite for these three cases.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@MODULE.bazel`:
- Around line 39-44: Update the qcbor git_repository declaration to replace tag
"v1.6.1" with the exact commit SHA corresponding to that release, while
preserving the existing repository name, build file, remote, and use_repo_rule
binding.

In `@providers/flagd/src/evaluator/evaluator.cpp`:
- Line 100: In ValueToJson, log a warning identifying the unsupported
openfeature::Value type immediately before the existing nullptr fallback, then
preserve the current null return behavior.

In `@providers/flagd/tests/evaluator/flagd_fractional_op_test.cpp`:
- Around line 193-199: Add a shared fixture method for fractional flag
evaluation that accepts the JSON value, builds hashing_input data, applies
MakeBasicFlagLogic(), and asserts a successful result before returning it.
Replace the duplicated local eval lambdas across the affected tests with this
fixture method, preserving their existing assertions and behavior.

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[toddbaert]

Implementation looks good, but blocking for now so that we can merge/release in sync, probably in the 2nd week of October.

This might need to be resolved first: #131 (comment)

[m-olko]

Hey, @toddbaert I fixed the issue with the [2^63, 2^64-1] range so I think this PR should be good to go with the rest of the implementations!

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providers/flagd/src/evaluator/flagd_ops.cpp: 1

488-490: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the hash input length guard before the cast to int.

The deleted CalculateHash rejected inputs longer than INT_MAX. The new code casts encoded.len to int without that check. A previous review raised the same concern.

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Review comment at @providers/flagd/src/evaluator/flagd_ops.cpp around lines 488
- 490:
Restore the input-length guard in CalculateHash before casting encoded.len to
int; reject lengths greater than INT_MAX, then preserve the existing
MurmurHash3_x86_32 call for valid lengths.

providers/flagd/tests/evaluator/flagd_fractional_op_test.cpp: 1

429-431: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use real characters in these three inputs, not escape text.

"A\\u0000B", "e\\u0301", and "\\uD83D\\uDE00" contain a literal backslash followed by u. As a result, the test does not cover an embedded NUL, a combining mark, or an emoji. After you use the real characters, take the expected buckets again from the Gherkin suite. A previous review raised the same concern.

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Review comment at @providers/flagd/tests/evaluator/flagd_fractional_op_test.cpp
around lines 429 - 431:
Update the three eval inputs in this test to contain an actual embedded NUL, the
combining-mark sequence, and the emoji rather than literal escape text, then set
their expected buckets to match the Gherkin suite.

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Review comments at @providers/flagd/src/evaluator/flagd_ops.cpp:
- Around line 436-443: Range-check each numeric weight in the weight-parsing
block before converting it to int32_t, since out-of-range floats can cause
undefined behavior and oversized integers can narrow silently. Preserve
rejection of non-finite and fractional floats, clamp negative values to zero,
and reject values above the int32_t maximum so they cannot bypass the
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Review comments at @providers/flagd/src/evaluator/flagd_ops.cpp:
- Around line 488-490: Restore the input-length guard in CalculateHash before
casting encoded.len to int; reject lengths greater than INT_MAX, then preserve
the existing MurmurHash3_x86_32 call for valid lengths.

Review comments at
@providers/flagd/tests/evaluator/flagd_fractional_op_test.cpp:
- Around line 429-431: Update the three eval inputs in this test to contain an
actual embedded NUL, the combining-mark sequence, and the emoji rather than
literal escape text, then set their expected buckets to match the Gherkin suite.

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