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Part of open-feature/spec#417 (cross-language tracking) via #1829 (Java implementation issue). The language-agnostic artifacts live in spec#423, their normative description in spec#439; the report envelope in spec#425.

Closes #1829

Draft — opened for review of the approach. The module passes the full codequality,deploy gate. The open questions are where I would most value pushback.

The PR chain

The same four-branch shape in every language, so understanding one is understanding all four:

main
 └── #1830  feat/provider-tck           this PR — the suite, both control paths, the spec
      │                                  submodule, the extension point, and the entire
      │                                  adopter-facing API
      ├── #1841  feat/provider-tck-report   Cucumber Messages and the report envelope
      └── #1847  feat/provider-tck-flagd    flagd adoption, both resolvers
           └── #1840  feat/provider-tck-ofrep   OFREP adoption

report and flagd are siblings, not a sequence. The follow-ups fill gaps without changing the
adopter-facing API, so neither blocks the other and either can land first. The suite works without
reporting, which is why reporting is not in this PR.

The seam: this branch owns everything an adopter declares — capabilities(),
knownDeviations(), configuration(), BackendControl.controlApi(), the reserved-capability rules
and the tag lookup. Reporting is purely additive over that, so adopting the suite and emitting a
report ask for the same declaration and nothing more.

What this is

A conformance suite any OpenFeature provider can adopt to check that it implements the provider
contract in the specification. OpenFeature's central promise is that swapping providers does not
change application behaviour; nothing verifies that today, and every provider tests differently.

The new tools/tck module carries the Cucumber step definitions and an abstract JUnit Platform
Suite that owns the whole test lifecycle. It does not carry the Gherkin, the canonical flag set
or the control API description: those are language-agnostic and live in open-feature/spec, reaching
this module through a submodule and packaged into the JAR at build time. A copy would be a second
place for conformance to drift, which is the one thing this suite exists to prevent. Adopters need
no submodule.

flagd is the first adopter, in both resolver modes. flagd-testbed is not modified and the existing
flagd e2e suites are untouched.

The adoption surface

Four methods with no default; everything else is a convention you can override. The whole of flagd's
RPC mode, on top of a shared abstract class:

public class RpcTest extends AbstractResolverTest {

    @Override protected Config.Resolver resolver() { return Config.Resolver.RPC; }

    @Override protected int backendPort() { return 8013; }
}

The shared part supplies the four required methods:

@Override public File composeFile() { ... }                      // the stack to run
@Override public List<Integer> backendPorts() { ... }             // ports the provider connects to
@Override public FeatureProvider createProvider(BackendEndpoint endpoint) { ... }
@Override public FeatureProvider createUnavailableProvider() { ... }

createProvider is a factory taking an endpoint rather than a field, because container host ports
are assigned dynamically and do not exist until the stack is up. Conventions with working defaults:
backendService() (backend), controlPort() (8080), additionalPorts(),
backendConfiguration() (default), startupTimeout() (60s).

The suite owns the container stack. Starting Compose, discovering mapped ports, building the
control client, waiting for the control API, tearing down — all of it. An adopter writes a Compose
file and the methods above. This is now required by Appendix F, after three of the four languages
originally shipped only the control-API client and left orchestration to the adopter, at which point
every adoption hand-rolled between 130 and 460 lines of the same wrapper.

A provider with no backend supplies its own BackendControl instead and never touches Compose.

Declaring what a provider can and cannot do

Two separate statements, because conflating them is how a conformance suite starts lying.

capabilities() names the optional parts of the contract this provider supports, from sixteen tags
(@lifecycle, @events, @stale, @targeting, @disabled-flags, @numeric-coercion,
@standard-reasons, …; @caching is reserved and cannot be declared). A scenario gated on an
undeclared capability is reported
skipped with its reason, never passed.

An unrecognised tag now fails the run (CapabilityGate.requireKnownVocabulary, plus a build-time
check that every tag the canonical assets carry is in the enum). Appendix F requires it, and this
implementation is why: the gate previously did if (!found.isPresent()) continue;, so an unknown tag
gated nothing and its scenarios stayed mandatory for every adopter. A suite that has not learned a
new capability does not report a new capability — it silently keeps demanding the old behaviour, and
the only symptom is that a provider legitimately withholding it shows unexplained failures. The
runtime check is scoped to gherkin/ by scenario URI, because an adopter's own extension tags must
stay tolerated.

Known gap, reported rather than papered over: CanonicalAssetDigestTest is test-scope with no
test-jar, so it does not ship — an adopter consuming the released JAR gets no revision check, which
Appendix F now requires to be in force where the scenarios execute. It cannot simply move to main
scope: it resolves gherkin/ against the code source as a directory, which holds for
target/classes and not for a JAR. The fix needs a zip-FileSystem reader over the same code
source, a suite-start hook, and the two constants relocated — coherent, but larger than this branch.

@large-integers cannot be declared in Java at all, and the suite refuses it rather than
expecting adopters to know that. The integer accessor is a 32-bit Integer, so 2^53 − 1 cannot be
asked for by any Java provider — it is a property of the SDK and says nothing about the provider.
Appendix F makes this the implementation's call rather than each adopter's, and naming it now fails
at configuration time with a message saying why. Its scenario stays gated rather than becoming
ungated, so it is skipped with a reason distinct from "the provider declined" — a reader of a Java
report can tell the two apart. Five places in this repository previously stated that fact, including
a README section instructing adopters to withhold it.

knownDeviations() says the provider fails something it is required to do. Appendix F settles which
of its two shapes to prefer: declare the capability, let the scenario fail, and record the deviation
beside the failure — rather than withdrawing the capability so the scenario skips. Withdrawing to
turn a failure into a skip hides a defect behind something that looks deliberate.

flagd is the worked example. It narrows 0.5 to 0 when a float flag is read through the integer
accessor, with no error code. Earlier revisions of this PR withheld @numeric-coercion; it now
declares it and carries a tracked deviation, because the widening scenario passes — so flagd
does coerce and gets one direction wrong, and a skip could not distinguish that from declining to
coerce at all.

reason is asserted in two places only, and they mean different things. Requirement 2.2.5 is a
SHOULD permitting "some other string", so the scenarios that resolve a value no longer assert a
reason at all — an exact-match assertion there fails providers the specification permits. What
replaced it is a capability. @standard-reasons declares that this provider speaks the
specification's own vocabulary, and a feature file then checks the whole of it: STATIC,
TARGETING_MATCH, DEFAULT, DISABLED. Undeclared, those scenarios skip with their reason, and
nothing else in the suite cares what a provider calls a reason.

The error cases are not part of that bargain and are asserted unconditionally. Requirement 1.4.8
makes an error code mandatory in abnormal execution, so ERROR there is not a dialect — a reason
that disagrees with the error code shipped beside it is a contradiction. The assertion is on the two
agreeing, not on which of them is authoritative.

The two invariants a TCK implementation gets wrong

Both are normative in the control API description.

Containers are never stopped or restarted mid-suite. Unavailability is simulated inside the
running stack. This is portability, not preference: container runtimes assign host ports dynamically
and do not reliably preserve them across a restart, and which bindings preserve them differs by
language — so a TCK that restarts containers works in one language and mysteriously fails in
another.

A control endpoint that changes flag state must not return until that state is being served.
Returning on accepted rather than applied pushes a race onto every caller, and the caller cannot
close it: a suite cannot distinguish "the backend has not caught up" from "the provider resolved the
wrong value". Earlier revisions of this PR slept 50ms after every control call; that is gone.

The wait is the endpoint's obligation, and nothing in this suite compensates when a backend breaks
it — not the shared harness and not an adoption. An earlier revision of this description said the
wait belonged in the adoption, citing AbstractResolverTest; that was wrong twice. Appendix F no
longer prescribes that shape, because an adoption that compensates cannot be compared with one that
does not against the same backend. And AbstractResolverTest never did it: it contains no waiting
code, and its javadoc says so outright — the readiness window of
flagd-testbed#394 "is not covered with a
sleep here either. Repeat a run before treating an extra failure as a regression — anything that
reproduces is one."

The one workaround written under the old guidance, in the Python OFREP adoption, has since been
removed — and removing it changed nothing, which is the clearest argument against the shape.

Running it

A conformance adoption is a directory, not a naming convention. It lives in the module's own
…/tck/ package beside the e2e suite rather than inside it, and every selector is now a path:
**/tck/*.java for the tck profile's includes, **/e2e/*.java,**/tck/*.java for the default
build's exclusions. providers/ofrep's e2e package is gone entirely — the conformance suite had
been its only member, which is the argument in its clearest form. The class names lost the Tck the
selector used to be spelled with: RpcTest, InProcessTest, OfrepTest. *Test stays, because
Surefire's default includes need it and that is a different thing from the selector being removed.

The adoption suites are excluded from the default build via testExclusions in the adopter's
POM, and a maintainer runs them through the dedicated tck profile:

mvn -pl tools/tck -am -DskipTests install     # once — tools/tck is not published yet
mvn -Ptck -pl providers/flagd test

Do not add -am to the second command. It drags tools/tck and tools/flagd-core into the
reactor and runs their unit suites first, which puts a conformance failure and a unit-test failure
back on one signal — the thing a separate step exists to prevent.

An earlier revision of this section documented mvn -P e2e test, and that was wrong in the worst
direction. Measured against a real run, it executes the three legacy e2e suites — 788 tests — and
TckTest appears nowhere in the 7309-line log. -P e2e is in fact the one flag that guarantees
the conformance suites do not run. The tallies below were always produced by a different invocation
and the adoption README documented that one correctly; only this description was wrong.

Appendix F carries the reasoning for excluding it: an adoption suite's honest output is red while
real gaps remain — filed provider defects, missing backend fixtures — so making it a required gate
forces someone to silence it, and the cheapest way to silence a conformance suite is to stop asking
the question.

So read the tally below rather than the green check. CI green on the adoption PRs means the
suite did not run. It does still compile in the default build, which is deliberate and which
testExclusions preserves by being a Surefire and not a compiler exclusion: a suite that has
quietly stopped building against its own harness is a worse failure than one that runs and fails.

The gating half of this is provisional and under discussion. The suite is excluded because its
honest output is red — but that is only true while a run is judged by "zero failures". Judged
instead by whether its results match its declaration — every failure covered by a declared
deviation, every skip gated by an undeclared capability, every deviation still failing something —
a healthy adoption is green in its steady state, deviations included, and this could be a required
gate. Proposed in
open-feature/spec#417;
nothing here depends on the outcome. What is settled either way is that the conformance suite gets
a step of its own rather than being folded into the provider's e2e suite.

Verification

At fe4ac3be, run locally:

Check	Result
mvn --projects tools/tck -P codequality,deploy clean verify	passes — checkstyle, PMD, SpotBugs, Spotless/Palantir, javadoc failOnWarnings=true
Module's own suite	246 tests green, no Docker
RpcTest	65 scenarios — 59 passed, 4 failed, 2 skipped
InProcessTest	65 scenarios — 59 passed, 4 failed, 2 skipped
Existing flagd e2e suites	unaffected and green

The four failures are one real provider defect (the float-to-int narrowing above, declared as a
deviation) and three backend fixture gaps that
flagd-testbed#392 fills. The two skips are
the scenarios gated on @reinitialization and @large-integers, the two capabilities flagd
withholds — each reported with its reason rather than passed.

Six lifecycle scenarios also run without Docker, through a test-scoped controllable provider, so
shutdown and re-initialisation are exercised in a normal build rather than only through the
containerised adoption.

Open questions

1. Should testcontainers be a compile dependency of tools/tck? It is provided/optional
   here. A separate tck-testcontainers artifact would drag createProvider(BackendEndpoint) out
   of the core, so I did not split it — but four languages answered this four ways and none is
   obviously wrong.
2. Nothing validates an emitted report against the schema in CI, in any language. The report
   branch checks fields by hand. The schema is what makes reports comparable across languages, so
   this is the weakest link in the design and it wants one answer rather than four.
3. Scenario scope. A representative subset covering each architectural mechanism once. Is the
   boundary in the right place?

Known gaps

Listed in full in tools/tck/README.md, and the same five in every language: whole-context
passthrough beyond the targeting key, targeting and bucketing correctness (out of scope by design),
caching, per-flag set/remove control operations, and hooks.

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This pull request adds a Java Provider TCK Maven module. The module defines provider harness and backend-control APIs, runs canonical and extension Cucumber scenarios, and includes in-process and container-backed fixtures, validation tests, and CI and release configuration.

Changes: Java Provider TCK

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Module setup and asset packaging .github/component_owners.yml, .github/workflows/ci.yml, .gitmodules, .release-please-manifest.json, pom.xml, release-please-config.json, tools/tck/*	Adds tools/tck to the Maven reactor and release configuration. Pins specification assets, copies them during the build, adds a CI verification job, and documents adoption and execution.
Harness and capability contracts tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/{BackendControl,BackendType,Capability,FlagUnderTest,InProcessControl,KnownDeviation,ProviderEventRecord,ProviderTck,ProviderTckHarness,ProviderTckTest,ReportNames,TckState}.java	Defines the harness and backend-control contracts, capability and deviation declarations, suite configuration, and scenario data types.
Backend controls and canonical flags tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/{BackendEndpoint,CanonicalFlags,ContainerizedProviderTckTest,HttpBackendControl,InProcessBackendControl}.java	Loads and validates canonical flags. Adds in-process and HTTP backend controls, plus Compose startup, endpoint resolution, and readiness handling.
Suite lifecycle and Cucumber steps tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/internal/*, tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/internal/steps/*, tools/tck/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/*, tools/tck/src/main/resources/extensions/README.md	Adds harness discovery and lifecycle management, Cucumber object-factory wiring, and steps for provider operations, flag evaluation, context values, and events.
Fixtures and TCK validation tools/tck/src/test/java/*, tools/tck/src/test/resources/*	Adds provider fixtures and tests for capability declarations, backend controls, lifecycle, canonical assets, extension discovery, and step visibility.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProviderTckTest
  participant TckObjectFactory
  participant TckLifecycle
  participant ProviderTckHarness
  participant BackendControl
  ProviderTckTest->>TckObjectFactory: start Cucumber object factory
  TckObjectFactory->>TckLifecycle: discover and start harness
  TckLifecycle->>ProviderTckHarness: call startSuite()
  TckLifecycle->>BackendControl: obtain backend control
  ProviderTckHarness->>BackendControl: prepareScenario()

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ae05d

HTTP adopters can receive incorrect backend configuration requests, while failed suites can hide startup errors or repeat expensive startup waits. These issues should be fixed before merging.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to ae05d

The documented exposure is conformance-test execution rather than production request handling. However, failure paths can discard ownership of backend cleanup, and Docker rollback behavior remains unverified. This creates a bounded test-environment containment risk.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: The new lifecycle can discard cleanup ownership before resource release succeeds. endSuite clears its registry before calling stopSuite, leaving no registered retry target when teardown throws. Containerized startup also assigns the Compose reference only after start returns, so cleanup after a partial startup exception depends on unverified upstream rollback. This weakens containment of Docker-backed test resources; persistent exposure or an exploitable security boundary failure has not been established.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The supported exposure is the adopter's test JVM and, when explicitly selected, its Docker-backed test environment. No production caller was established in the inspected repository consumers. External deployments, credentials, network reachability, and tenant exposure cannot be determined from this evidence.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Harness discovery selects trusted test implementations through suite metadata or ServiceLoader. A selector chooses among registered harnesses; it does not supply executable commands or remote implementation code.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The inspected lifecycle tests demonstrate ordinary failed-start cleanup and successful multi-lifecycle teardown. They do not establish recovery when Compose startup partially allocates resources or cleanup itself throws, so they do not resolve the containment uncertainty.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Retain explicit ownership of partially started resources and failed teardown targets until release succeeds or an explicit recovery handoff occurs. Make repeated cleanup safe and validate partial allocation and cleanup-failure paths.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		Issue #1829 requires flagd as the first adopter without changes to flagd-testbed. The TCK implementation is present in tools/tck, with packaged assets, lifecycle control, capability gating, and se…	Add the flagd TCK adoption without modifying flagd-testbed. Add the dedicated TCK configuration and selectors. Run the adoption and report the required conformance result, including visible skips and the numeric-coercion defect finding.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 56.52% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 391 functions across 54 files. (1 skipped…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description directly explains the new Java Provider TCK, its adoption API, backend control paths, assets, verification results, and known gaps.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding a Java conformance suite for OpenFeature providers.
Out of Scope Changes check		The added module, canonical asset packaging, provider adoption contract, capability and deviation declarations, lifecycle tests, extension tests, Maven integration, release metadata, and CI job suppor…

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Explanation

The added module, canonical asset packaging, provider adoption contract, capability and deviation declarations, lifecycle tests, extension tests, Maven integration, release metadata, and CI job support the reusable provider TCK required by #1829. No unrelated product behavior change is shown.

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Explanation

Issue #1829 requires flagd as the first adopter without changes to flagd-testbed. The TCK implementation is present in tools/tck, with packaged assets, lifecycle control, capability gating, and serial Cucumber execution. The whole-PR diff has no providers/flagd changes, and the reviewed tree has no flagd tck adoption. Therefore, the required adopter proof of concept and its reported scenario result are not implemented. The current numeric-coercion declaration can record the observed defect, but it does not replace the missing adoption.

Resolution

Add the flagd TCK adoption without modifying flagd-testbed. Add the dedicated TCK configuration and selectors. Run the adoption and report the required conformance result, including visible skips and the numeric-coercion defect finding.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 56.52% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 391 functions across 54 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Review comments at @tools/tck/pom.xml:
- Line 23: Update the jackson-databind.version property in the TCK Maven
configuration from 2.22.1 to 2.22.3 so adopters receive the patched version
transitively.

Review comments at
@tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/ContainerizedProviderTckTest.java:
- Around line 184-190: Update startCompose() to stop the local ComposeContainer
if stack.start() throws a RuntimeException, then rethrow the original startup
exception. If stopping also fails, attach that rollback exception as suppressed
so it does not replace the startup failure.

Review comments at
@tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/HttpBackendControl.java:
- Around line 147-150: Update HttpBackendControl.start() to omit the config
query parameter when backendConfiguration is null; otherwise URL-encode its
value before adding it to the query string, using UTF-8.

Review comments at
@tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/internal/steps/TckLifecycle.java:
- Around line 101-105: Update the startup failure handler in TckLifecycle so a
RuntimeException from harness.stopSuite() does not replace the original startup
exception. Catch the cleanup exception, attach it to the startup exception with
addSuppressed, and rethrow the original exception.

Review comments at
@tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/internal/steps/TckObjectFactory.java:
- Around line 63-66: Update TckObjectFactory to cache the first RuntimeException
from startForExecutingSuite for the current suite and rethrow it on later
startup attempts instead of retrying. Clear the cached failure in beginSuite()
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GHSA-cxp5-3px4-pw24 GHSA-wv8q-qhhj-9h54 jackson-databind 2.22.3 advisory

💡 Result:

Inspection citation: inspection_ff80d32281c283a14035540a6f08a2e9

**Jackson Databind 2.22.3 fixes both advisories**:

- **GHSA-cxp5-3px4-pw24 / CVE-2026-91777:** quadratic CPU use when resolving reverse-ordered forward references in `@JsonIdentityInfo` collections or maps. ([github.com](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/security/advisories/GHSA-cxp5-3px4-pw24?utm_source=openai))
- **GHSA-wv8q-qhhj-9h54 / CVE-2026-91776:** unbounded cache growth from distinct unknown type IDs when name-based polymorphism uses a fallback implementation. ([github.com](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/security/advisories/GHSA-wv8q-qhhj-9h54?utm_source=openai))

Both advisories list **2.22.0–2.22.2** as affected and **2.22.3** as patched. Exposure depends on the relevant deserialization patterns and configuration; upgrading to 2.22.3 addresses these two issues. ([github.com](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/security/advisories/GHSA-cxp5-3px4-pw24?utm_source=openai))

Citations:

- 1: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/security/advisories/GHSA-cxp5-3px4-pw24?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/security/advisories/GHSA-wv8q-qhhj-9h54?utm_source=openai
- 3: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/security/advisories/GHSA-cxp5-3px4-pw24?utm_source=openai

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Denial of Service

Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Theoretical
CWE: CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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Upgrade jackson-databind to 2.22.3 before publishing the TCK.

The TCK exposes jackson-databind with compile scope, so adopters inherit it transitively. Version 2.22.1 is affected by the cited advisories; 2.22.3 is patched. The relevant attacks require attacker-controlled JSON and specific deserialization patterns, so the practical risk is low for the TCK's packaged and adopter-controlled inputs.

🛡️ Proposed fix

--- "a/tools/tck/pom.xml"
+++ "b/tools/tck/pom.xml"
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
         <assertj.version>3.27.7</assertj.version>
         <awaitility.version>4.3.0</awaitility.version>
-        <jackson-databind.version>2.22.1</jackson-databind.version>
+        <jackson-databind.version>2.22.3</jackson-databind.version>
         <slf4j.version>2.0.17</slf4j.version>
         <testcontainers.version>2.0.4</testcontainers.version>
         <opentest4j.version>1.3.0</opentest4j.version>

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	<jackson-databind.version>2.22.1</jackson-databind.version>
	<jackson-databind.version>2.22.3</jackson-databind.version>

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Update the jackson-databind.version property in the TCK Maven configuration from
2.22.1 to 2.22.3 so adopters receive the patched version transitively.

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Roll back the local Compose stack when startup fails.

startCompose() retains the ComposeContainer only in stack until stack.start() returns. If startup allocates resources and then throws, startSuite() cannot assign the field, so stopSuite() cannot stop the stack. Roll back stack before rethrowing the original exception.

Suggested fix

-        stack.start();
+        try {
+            stack.start();
+        } catch (RuntimeException startupFailure) {
+            try {
+                stack.stop();
+            } catch (RuntimeException rollbackFailure) {
+                startupFailure.addSuppressed(rollbackFailure);
+            }
+            throw startupFailure;
+        }
         return stack;

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	}
	}
	stack.withStartupTimeout(startupTimeout());
	log.info("Starting Compose stack {} (started once per suite, never restarted)", composeFile.getAbsolutePath());
	stack.start();
	return stack;
	}
	}
	stack.withStartupTimeout(startupTimeout());
	log.info("Starting Compose stack {} (started once per suite, never restarted)", composeFile.getAbsolutePath());
	try {
	stack.start();
	} catch (RuntimeException startupFailure) {
	try {
	stack.stop();
	} catch (RuntimeException rollbackFailure) {
	startupFailure.addSuppressed(rollbackFailure);
	}
	throw startupFailure;
	}
	return stack;

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@tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/ContainerizedProviderTckTest.java
around lines 184 - 190:
Update startCompose() to stop the local ComposeContainer if stack.start() throws
a RuntimeException, then rethrow the original startup exception. If stopping
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Handle a null backend configuration and encode the query value.

BackendControl.overHttp(baseUrl, backendConfiguration) documents null as "for none". start() concatenates the value directly into the URL. For a null configuration, the backend receives POST /start?config=null and tries to seed a configuration named null. If the name contains a space or another reserved character, URI.create throws IllegalArgumentException. Omit the query when the value is null, and URL-encode the value in all other cases.

🐛 Proposed fix

--- "a/tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/HttpBackendControl.java"
+++ "b/tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/HttpBackendControl.java"
@@ -144,10 +144,13 @@
     }
 
     /** Starts the backend, seeding the baseline flag state. */
     private void start() {
-        post("/start?config=" + backendConfiguration);
+        post(backendConfiguration == null
+                ? "/start"
+                : "/start?config=" + java.net.URLEncoder.encode(
+                        backendConfiguration, java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
         backendStopped = false;
     }
 
     /** Restores baseline via {@code POST /reset}, falling back to {@code /start} on 404/501. */
     private void reset() {

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	private void start() {
	post("/start?config=" + backendConfiguration);
	backendStopped = false;
	}
	private void start() {
	post(backendConfiguration == null
	? "/start"
	: "/start?config=" + java.net.URLEncoder.encode(
	backendConfiguration, java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
	backendStopped = false;
	}

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printf '%s\n' '--- lifecycle tests and harness stop implementations ---'
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nl -ba tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/internal/steps/TckObjectFactory.java | sed -n ' fifty,78p'
printf '%s\n' '--- harness lifecycle contract ---'
nl -ba tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/ProviderTckHarness.java | sed -n '20,38p;72,98p'
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Keep the startup failure when cleanup also fails.

If harness.stopSuite() throws inside this catch block, it replaces the startup exception. The adopter then sees only the cleanup failure and loses the original startup cause. Catch the cleanup exception and attach it to e with addSuppressed.

🐛 Suggested fix

--- "a/tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/internal/steps/TckLifecycle.java"
+++ "b/tools/tck/src/main/java/dev/openfeature/contrib/tools/tck/internal/steps/TckLifecycle.java"
@@ -98,10 +98,14 @@
             TckLifecycle lifecycle = new TckLifecycle(harness, control);
             started.add(lifecycle);
             return lifecycle;
         } catch (RuntimeException e) {
             // release anything a partial start allocated, e.g. containers
-            harness.stopSuite();
+            try {
+                harness.stopSuite();
+            } catch (RuntimeException cleanup) {
+                e.addSuppressed(cleanup);
+            }
             throw e;
         }
     }
 

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	} catch (RuntimeException e) {
	// release anything a partial start allocated, e.g. containers
	harness.stopSuite();
	throw e;
	}
	} catch (RuntimeException e) {
	// release anything a partial start allocated, e.g. containers
	try {
	harness.stopSuite();
	} catch (RuntimeException cleanup) {
	e.addSuppressed(cleanup);
	}
	throw e;
	}

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around lines 101 - 105:
Update the startup failure handler in TckLifecycle so a RuntimeException from
harness.stopSuite() does not replace the original startup exception. Catch the
cleanup exception, attach it to the startup exception with addSuppressed, and
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printf '%s\n' '--- TckSuiteListener ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- lifecycle/object-factory tests and related factory scope ---'
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Cache failed startup for the current TCK suite.

When TckLifecycle.startForExecutingSuite() fails, TckObjectFactory.lifecycle remains null. Each later scenario can retry harness.startSuite(). For ContainerizedProviderTckTest, a retry can repeat both the Compose startup timeout and the readiness wait.

Cache the first startup failure at suite scope. Clear it in beginSuite() and endSuite() so a later suite can start, even when it uses the same factory instance.

🐛 Suggested fix

     private static volatile boolean suiteRunning;
+    private static volatile RuntimeException suiteStartFailure;

     static void beginSuite() {
+        suiteStartFailure = null;
         ProviderTckHarness harness = discoverHarness();
         log.info("Provider TCK harness: {}", harness.getClass().getName());
         Capability.requireDeclarable(harness.capabilities());
         suiteRunning = true;
     }

     static void endSuite() {
         suiteRunning = false;
+        suiteStartFailure = null;
         List<TckLifecycle> toStop;
         synchronized (started) {
             toStop = new ArrayList<>(started);
             started.clear();
         }
...
     static Optional<TckLifecycle> startForExecutingSuite() {
         if (!suiteRunning) {
             return Optional.empty();
         }
-        return Optional.of(start(discoverHarness()));
+        if (suiteStartFailure != null) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("The TCK backend failed to start earlier in this suite",
+                    suiteStartFailure);
+        }
+        try {
+            return Optional.of(start(discoverHarness()));
+        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
+            suiteStartFailure = e;
+            throw e;
+        }
     }

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Review comment at
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around lines 63 - 66:
Update TckObjectFactory to cache the first RuntimeException from
startForExecutingSuite for the current suite and rethrow it on later startup
attempts instead of retrying. Clear the cached failure in beginSuite() and
endSuite() so subsequent suites can start using the same factory instance.

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