feat: add the provider conformance assets by aepfli · Pull Request #423 · open-feature/spec

aepfli · 2026-08-24T09:37:36Z

Part of #417. This PR is the assets — the files four conformance implementations execute. It stacks on #440, which configures the releases that give these assets a tag. The normative description of them, Appendix F, is #439, stacked on this. #425 adds the machine-readable report.

This PR previously carried the appendix too. It was split so the assets can land while the prose is still being reviewed.

What

The artifacts a provider conformance suite runs against:

path	what it is
`assets/provider-tck/gherkin/`	six feature files — evaluation, errors, events, lifecycle, reason, metadata
`assets/provider-tck/flags/canonical-flags.json`	the flag set every scenario assumes
`assets/provider-tck/openapi/control-api.yaml`	the HTTP surface a backend under test must expose
`assets/provider-tck/go.mod`, `embed.go`	a nested Go module exposing the artifacts as an `embed.FS`
`release-please-config.json`, `.release-please-manifest.json`	registers the assets as a releasable component; the general setup is #440

Marked experimental: the scenario set is a representative subset, and the capability vocabulary may still change.

Why this is split out

Four language implementations already run these files, and all four are currently pinned to an unmerged branch tip. Every rebase here invalidates them — it has happened three times in two weeks. Nothing about those pins becomes real until the assets are on main with a tag, so landing the executable half first is worth more than landing it together with prose that will take longer to review.

Appendix F is the same work, reviewed on its own terms.

Why a Go module is in here

A Go module is distributed as a zip of the VCS tree, in which a git submodule is only a gitlink and its files are absent. The other three languages build from a working tree and keep using the submodule, but a Go suite would have to vendor a copy of every artifact and police it against drift. embed.go removes the copy: a consumer pins a revision, the checksum database makes it immutable, and the embedded bytes are the same bytes every other language reads out of the submodule. go.mod and embed.go are inert for every non-Go consumer. Precedent: open-feature/flagd-schemas.

The release config tags the assets as their own component, specification/assets/provider-tck/vX.Y.Z — the shape go get needs. Without it a Go consumer can only name a pseudo-version.

Releasing the assets

The general release-please setup is #440, which this stacks on. What this PR adds is the part that describes these assets: a second package, so they are tagged specification/assets/provider-tck/vX.Y.Z.

That tag shape is what go get needs. Without it a Go consumer can only name a pseudo-version, which is what the four conformance implementations have had to do while this branch was unmerged, and it has cost several rounds of re-pinning.

The specification package sets exclude-paths for this directory, so an asset-only change no longer cuts a specification release, and separate-pull-requests keeps the two from sharing one release pull request.

The capability vocabulary lives in the README, for now

A scenario exercising an optional part of the contract carries a tag; a provider declares what it supports, and a scenario gated on an undeclared tag is reported skipped, with the reason — never as passed. A suite that quietly goes green on scenarios it did not run is worse than no suite at all.

That rule and the tag table are in assets/provider-tck/README.md so the tags in the feature files are not left undefined while the appendix is in review. #439 moves them into the appendix and leaves a pointer behind, so they end up with one home rather than two that can disagree.

Worth stating plainly: withholding a tag is not an admission of a defect. @numeric-coercion borrows its rule from flagd's coercion ADR, and @string-typing / @fully-typed-values sit on a question the specification does not answer at all — #430 and #433.

Decisions worth reviewing

assets/provider-tck/ rather than beside the SDK Gherkin, because assets/gherkin/evaluation.feature already exists and tests an SDK, not a provider. This answers [Tracking] A cross-language conformance suite for OpenFeature providers #417's Q1 — the subdirectory is forced rather than chosen.
.gitattributes normalises these to LF. Four languages consume them byte for byte and copy them verbatim into published artifacts, so a Windows checkout must not package differently from a Linux one.
missing-flag must not exist in the flag set — its absence is what the FLAG_NOT_FOUND scenario tests. The other four load-bearing properties of the flag set are in the README; each one, if seeded wrong, turns a scenario green or red for the wrong reason in every language at once.
No container restarts. Outages are produced through the control API, because orchestrators reassign host ports on restart and every provider pointed at the old one then fails looking flaky.

Implementations

All four execute exactly these files, against flagd (both resolvers), OFREP and Flagsmith:

	suite	flagd	OFREP	Flagsmith
Java	#1830	#1847	#1840	#1849
Go	#940	#941	#942	#959
JavaScript	#1606	#1608	#1612	#1623
Python	#409	#411	#414	—

What running them has found

flagd silently narrows a float flag to an integer, Go and Java, both resolvers, no error code — flagd#1996
flagd reported ready before flags were evaluable, on 100% of starts — flagd#2047, fixed in flagd v0.17.0
The Java SDK's MultiProvider swallows child provider events — java-sdk#1882
The Python flagd provider widens a boolean to a float — python-sdk-contrib#417
The JavaScript Flagsmith provider stringifies unconditionally where its other paths correctly report a mismatch — visible only because three languages ran identical scenarios against one backend
two specification gaps, raised rather than decided here: #430, #433

coderabbitai · 2026-08-24T09:37:45Z

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This change adds Provider TCK assets: canonical flag definitions, a control API specification, provider behavior scenarios, and Go packaging. It also documents asset consumption and configures the TCK as an independently versioned release package.

Changes: Provider TCK

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Canonical flags and control API contract `specification/assets/provider-tck/flags/canonical-flags.json`, `specification/assets/provider-tck/openapi/control-api.yaml`, `specification/assets/provider-tck/README.md`	Defines canonical flag values and constraints. Specifies control API operations, responses, and backend behavior. The README describes flag-set requirements.
Evaluation, errors, and resolution reasons `specification/assets/provider-tck/gherkin/*.feature`, `specification/assets/provider-tck/README.md`	Adds scenarios for typed evaluation, variants, precision, targeting, type mismatches, numeric conversions, missing flags, and resolution reasons. The README documents capability-tag rules.
Provider lifecycle and events `specification/assets/provider-tck/gherkin/events.feature`, `specification/assets/provider-tck/gherkin/lifecycle.feature`, `specification/assets/provider-tck/gherkin/metadata.feature`	Adds scenarios for configuration and availability events, initialization and shutdown, reinitialization, and provider metadata.
Asset embedding and independent releases `specification/assets/provider-tck/embed.go`, `specification/assets/provider-tck/go.mod`, `specification/assets/provider-tck/.gitattributes`, `specification/assets/provider-tck/README.md`, `.github/workflows/release-please.yaml`, `.release-please-manifest.json`, `release-please-config.json`	Adds Go module packaging and embedded assets, line-ending rules, and consumption and versioning documentation. Configures a separate release package and manifest entry for the Provider TCK.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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The asset guide misstates which scenarios test resolution reasons, and the control API introduction may need updating. These documentation concerns are bounded; the reviewed packaging and release configuration do not establish a merge-blocking failure.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 98695

The change primarily publishes test contracts and packages static assets. No new exploitable path was demonstrated, and release permissions are unchanged. However, the control contract does not establish access restrictions or recovery behavior for overlapping and interrupted commands; downstream enforcement remains unverified.

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Security Blast Radius

inferred — A caller able to invoke an implementing control service could disrupt the backend under test or alter its test flag state. The contract identifies that test stack as the intended scope; actual network reachability, shared resources and any wider tenant or environment exposure are unverified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — The complete OpenAPI document specifies HTTP with a localhost default but no authentication scheme, authorization requirement or mandatory network-binding restriction. Localhost and the suite-owned test stack are meaningful exposure counterevidence, but they do not establish downstream access enforcement.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — The contract defines repeated start and stop behavior, successful-state readiness ordering, and reset fallback. It does not define ownership or ordering of concurrent commands, cancellation of pending restarts, or rollback after partial process or flag-state failure. Downstream serialization and cleanup controls remain uninspected.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Make test-only control-plane confinement explicit: require loopback or an equivalently isolated test network, and require authentication and authorization wherever untrusted callers can reach the service.
proposed — Define command serialization and recovery ownership, including whether a pending restart is cancelled by a subsequent stop or start and how partial failures restore a known baseline or terminate the affected test stack.

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…pec submodule The Gherkin, the canonical flag set and the control API document are not Java artifacts. They are language-agnostic definitions of the provider contract that every language's TCK must agree on byte for byte, and they only lived in this module because the proof of concept had to start somewhere. They now live in open-feature/spec as Appendix F, under specification/assets/provider-tck/, and are copied in from the `spec` git submodule at generate-resources — the same mechanism tools/flagd-api-testkit already uses for the flagd test harness. The copies are git-ignored and carry a do-not-edit note; changes belong in the spec repo and arrive here by bumping the submodule. Consumers are unaffected: the artifacts are still packaged into the release JAR, @SelectClasspathResource("features") still resolves, and nobody needs a submodule of their own. Verified byte-identical after the round trip. The in-memory CI job now checks out submodules, since without them there is no suite to run. DEPENDS ON open-feature/spec#423. The submodule is pinned to that PR's branch commit rather than to a commit on the spec repo's main branch. That is reachable, so CI can fetch it, but it must be re-pinned to main once #423 merges and before this lands. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

@lifecycle

lifecycle.feature was tagged @events, which is wrong in both directions. Too strict: a stateless provider such as OFREP emits no events of its own and cannot declare @events, yet it still initialises against a backend and still owes the lifecycle contract. Too lax: FeatureProviderStateManager emits PROVIDER_READY/PROVIDER_ERROR around initialize for any provider, whether or not it is an EventProvider. So a provider that does no initialisation of its own reaches READY exactly as NoOpProvider would, and the readiness scenario passes vacuously. Adds Capability.LIFECYCLE ("@lifecycle") -- performs an initialisation that reaches its backend, with an observable outcome -- and re-vendors lifecycle.feature verbatim from the spec assets, where the feature-level tag is now @lifecycle (spec dfa16586, PR open-feature/spec#423). flagd declares LIFECYCLE in both resolver modes: RPC does a round trip and in-process syncs the whole ruleset during initialisation, so the scenarios assert something real there. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

…odule The feature files, canonical flag set and control-API document are owned by open-feature/spec. Vendoring them here made this repository a second place the definition of conformance could drift, which is precisely what the suite exists to prevent. They are now a pinned submodule at libs/shared/provider-tck/spec and the copies are gone. Adopters are unaffected, and that is the constraint the change had to respect: the rollup asset globs copy the artifacts out of the submodule and into the published package, so installing @openfeature/provider-tck from npm still needs no submodule and no particular repository layout. resolveAssetDir therefore has to satisfy two layouts -- the packaged copy next to the bundle, and the submodule under the library root -- and tries both. The spec calls the feature directory `gherkin`; the package keeps the name the API talks about. Contributors do need the submodule: without it no feature file loads at all. `nx test` and `nx package` depend on a pullSpec target that initialises it, and CI already checks out with `submodules: recursive`. Prettier is pointed at the submodule instead of the old vendored paths so it never rewrites artifacts that are consumed byte for byte by every language's TCK. The .gitattributes normalising those files to LF goes with them; the equivalent lives upstream, where the files now do. Pinned to dfa1658 (open-feature/spec#423). Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

toddbaert · 2026-09-09T22:36:27Z

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I wonder if the canonical flags should also be gherkin? They could be a very large "given", I guess.

i can see the motivition behind it. but i am not sure it will be easier to read or understand or parse. Especially a json is easily transformed into another JSON for eg. CLI's to prefill databases etc. Not so sure about the gherkin for this purpose.

toddbaert · 2026-09-09T22:49:37Z

I have to say, the Java impl is remarkably small and clean in Java. I think there's a lot of value here.

toddbaert · 2026-09-09T23:16:17Z

I really like the idea, and the impl is clean (though TBH the issue and PR description is very wordy and maybe could be compressed and made less verbose) it took me a long time to get through 😅 .

I have 2 things I think I'd want to understand additionally:

extension: I'd want as an explicit Appendix F requirement: the single-init lifecycle should be open for authors to add their own scenarios/steps that run in the same "phase" (one backend start/teardown), so vendors like flagd extend the TCK rather than maintaining a parallel harness for their provider-specific features (fractional, for example). I think it'd be good to make this outcome-normative and per-language, since it's nearly free in godog/pytest-bdd/jest but the current Java annotation-driven suite can't add features/glue without redeclaring the whole set; so if it's not required, we will end up with suites that can't be easily extended. WDYT?
A report like you describe in Publishing provider conformance: a machine-readable report, and how to collect one from providers we do not host #424... I made a comment there, but I think we should consider bundling these (not sure).

aepfli · 2026-09-10T16:39:41Z

I am in total favor for extensibility. This would even help our providers. We could try to define defaults in java, like a default resource path and a default step path, add those to the test, and have a simply way for the beginning. But also I am not sure, if this would be something which we should delay to the next version. For now, there is the idea, but do we need it immediately to ensure conformance. It sounds like a nice to have feature. A good iteration on the tck, i feel like it could bloat the current efforts. wdyt?

I measured what the Java classpath actually does here — the defaults idea works, with one catch

Four measurements against the real module:


absent `@SelectClasspathResource`	hard discovery error
same directory name, two classpath roots	additive — both scanned
same directory and filename	one silently wins (`test-classes` beats the jar)
directory holding only a README	resolves fine

The third is the catch. If the default resource path is just features/, a vendor adding features/errors.feature silently replaces the canonical file and the suite goes green having run theirs instead. So the default path has to be a separate one:

features/          canonical, TCK jar only
tck-extensions/    vendor features; ships with a README so the selector resolves

plus one extra glue package on the base suite (openfeature.tck.extensions) — an absent package is tolerated, so it costs nothing for anyone not using it.

Net cost: two lines in AbstractProviderTckTest and a README in the jar. A vendor then drops in a .feature file and a step class and writes zero annotations.

If it does land, I'd word it in Appendix F as an outcome rather than a mechanism — an adopter can add scenarios and steps that run in the same backend phase without redeclaring the canonical set — since it's pure convention in Java and Python, while Go and JS have no runtime scanning and need one registration callback.

Worth separating from the above either way: the suite should verify its canonical scenarios actually ran. That is not about extensibility — the same footgun already exists as cucumber.filter.tags, -k or testPathIgnorePatterns, and the file-shadowing result above makes it a concrete way to run fewer scenarios while reporting success.

// edit: flagd specifically is actually not a good reference example, as we are testing the evaluation engine seperately now. with really good tests. not sure if we want to have all of those tests executed during TCK evaluation. I see the benefit and the ease of running. But the more i think about, the TCK might be best to kept seperate as a verifiable unit, with whom nobody can mingle. Still torn, by both sides

The spec PR was split: the assets are open-feature/spec#423 and the appendix is #439. This pin follows the assets, so appendix review no longer moves it. PINNED_DIGEST is unchanged, and that is the point: the digest covers flags/, gherkin/ and openapi/, all byte-identical across the move. Only the assets README differs, and it is not an artifact. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

open-feature/spec#423 now stacks on #440, which owns the release configuration, so the assets branch moved. Artifacts are byte-identical, so PINNED_DIGEST is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

open-feature/spec#423 was restacked so that the general release-please setup is its own pull request (#440) and #423 adds only the assets and the component that releases them. That rewrote the assets tip, so the revision pinned here moved with it. Artifacts are byte-identical across the move. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

The spec PR was split: the assets are open-feature/spec#423 and the appendix is #439. This pin follows the assets, so appendix review no longer moves it. The embedded artifacts are byte-identical across the move -- only the assets README changed -- so no tally moves. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

open-feature/spec#423 was restacked so that the general release-please setup is its own pull request (#440) and #423 adds only the assets and the component that releases them. That rewrote the assets tip, so the revision pinned here moved with it. Artifacts are byte-identical across the move. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

…odule The feature files, canonical flag set and control-API document are owned by open-feature/spec. Vendoring them here made this repository a second place the definition of conformance could drift, which is precisely what the suite exists to prevent. They are now a pinned submodule at libs/shared/provider-tck/spec and the copies are gone. Adopters are unaffected, and that is the constraint the change had to respect: the rollup asset globs copy the artifacts out of the submodule and into the published package, so installing @openfeature/provider-tck from npm still needs no submodule and no particular repository layout. resolveAssetDir therefore has to satisfy two layouts -- the packaged copy next to the bundle, and the submodule under the library root -- and tries both. The spec calls the feature directory `gherkin`; the package keeps the name the API talks about. Contributors do need the submodule: without it no feature file loads at all. `nx test` and `nx package` depend on a pullSpec target that initialises it, and CI already checks out with `submodules: recursive`. Prettier is pointed at the submodule instead of the old vendored paths so it never rewrites artifacts that are consumed byte for byte by every language's TCK. The .gitattributes normalising those files to LF goes with them; the equivalent lives upstream, where the files now do. Pinned to dfa1658 (open-feature/spec#423). Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

The spec PR was split: the assets are open-feature/spec#423 and the appendix is #439. This pin follows the assets, so appendix review no longer moves it. The assets consumed here are byte-identical across the move. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

open-feature/spec#423 was restacked so that the general release-please setup is its own pull request (#440) and #423 adds only the assets and the component that releases them. That rewrote the assets tip, so the revision pinned here moved with it. Artifacts are byte-identical across the move. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

toddbaert

Reviewed in public meeting with @aepfli and @erka . Will merge - this is a new addition to the spec and released independently.

The feature files, the flag set they assume and the control API a backend under test must expose, plus a nested Go module so a Go suite can depend on a revision of them the way it depends on any other module. These are the artifacts four conformance implementations execute. Their normative description, Appendix F, follows in its own pull request: it is prose and will take longer to review, while four languages are pinned to this branch, so every rebase here invalidates them. The README carries the capability vocabulary and the skipped-never-passed rule in the meantime, so the tags the feature files use are not left undefined. Experimental: the scenario set is a representative subset and the vocabulary may still change. Tracked in #417. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

A second release-please package, so the assets added here are tagged specification/assets/provider-tck/vX.Y.Z. That is the shape `go get` needs: without a tag a Go consumer can only name a pseudo-version, which is what the four conformance implementations have had to do while this branch was unmerged. The specification package excludes this path, so an asset-only change no longer cuts a specification release, and separate-pull-requests keeps the two from sharing one release pull request. The general release-please setup is #440, which this stacks on; this commit adds only the part that describes the assets beside them. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

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+    ## Where this document should live
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+    This file currently ships inside the Java `provider-tck` artifact, but it is
+    not a Java artifact: it is a language-agnostic contract that every language's
+    TCK must implement identically, and that backend vendors implement in
+    whatever language their testbed is written in (Go, for flagd).
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+    It therefore belongs in the OpenFeature **spec** repository
+    (`open-feature/spec`), alongside the canonical Gherkin feature files and the
+    canonical flag set. Those three artifacts are a single unit — a feature file
+    that evaluates `boolean-flag` is meaningless without the flag definition, and
+    a disconnect scenario is meaningless without the endpoint that produces the
+    disconnect. Splitting them across repositories would let them drift.
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+    Each language's TCK then vendors the spec repo (git submodule or equivalent)
+    and packages these files into its own distribution format, so that adopting a
+    TCK never requires a consumer to check out a submodule of their own.


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+| Path | What it is |
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+| [`gherkin/evaluation.feature`](./gherkin/evaluation.feature) | resolving each type with the right value and reason; the variant where the backend names one; falsy values; integer precision |


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--- "a/specification/assets/provider-tck/README.md" +++ "b/specification/assets/provider-tck/README.md" @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ | Path | What it is | | --- | --- | -| [`gherkin/evaluation.feature`](./gherkin/evaluation.feature) | resolving each type with the right value and reason; the variant where the backend names one; falsy values; integer precision | +| [`gherkin/evaluation.feature`](./gherkin/evaluation.feature) | resolving each type with the right value; the variant where the backend names one; falsy values; integer precision | | [`gherkin/errors.feature`](./gherkin/errors.feature) | the type-mismatch matrix, numeric coercion, string typing and the unknown-flag case | | [`gherkin/events.feature`](./gherkin/events.feature) | configuration change, and the stale/ready transition across an outage | | [`gherkin/lifecycle.feature`](./gherkin/lifecycle.feature) | initialisation against a healthy backend and against an unreachable one; shutdown |

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The spec PR was split: the assets are open-feature/spec#423 and the appendix is #439. This pin follows the assets, so appendix review no longer moves it. The embedded artifacts are byte-identical across the move, so the digest verified at suite start is unchanged and no tally moves. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

… the pin errcheck flagged the unchecked fmt.Fprintf in canonicalAssetsDigest. The next line already writes to the same hash with a bare hash.Write, which errcheck tolerates because (hash.Hash).Write is in its default exclude list and cannot fail, so the header goes through the same call rather than an _, _ = . The pin follows the assets to open-feature/spec#423, which now stacks on #440 rather than carrying the release configuration itself. Embedded artifacts are byte-identical, so the digest is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

open-feature/spec#423 was restacked so that the general release-please setup is its own pull request (#440) and #423 adds only the assets and the component that releases them. That rewrote the assets tip, so the pseudo-version moved with it. Embedded artifacts are byte-identical, so the digest is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

…odule The feature files, canonical flag set and control-API document are owned by open-feature/spec. Vendoring them here made this repository a second place the definition of conformance could drift, which is precisely what the suite exists to prevent. They are now a pinned submodule at libs/shared/provider-tck/spec and the copies are gone. Adopters are unaffected, and that is the constraint the change had to respect: the rollup asset globs copy the artifacts out of the submodule and into the published package, so installing @openfeature/provider-tck from npm still needs no submodule and no particular repository layout. resolveAssetDir therefore has to satisfy two layouts -- the packaged copy next to the bundle, and the submodule under the library root -- and tries both. The spec calls the feature directory `gherkin`; the package keeps the name the API talks about. Contributors do need the submodule: without it no feature file loads at all. `nx test` and `nx package` depend on a pullSpec target that initialises it, and CI already checks out with `submodules: recursive`. Prettier is pointed at the submodule instead of the old vendored paths so it never rewrites artifacts that are consumed byte for byte by every language's TCK. The .gitattributes normalising those files to LF goes with them; the equivalent lives upstream, where the files now do. Pinned to dfa1658 (open-feature/spec#423). Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

The spec PR was split: the assets are open-feature/spec#423 and the appendix is #439. This pin follows the assets, so appendix review no longer moves it. The assets consumed here are byte-identical across the move. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

open-feature/spec#423 was restacked so that the general release-please setup is its own pull request (#440) and #423 adds only the assets and the component that releases them. That rewrote the assets tip, so the revision pinned here moved with it. Artifacts are byte-identical across the move. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

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lifecycle.feature was tagged @events, which is wrong in both directions. Too strict: a stateless provider such as OFREP emits no events of its own and cannot declare @events, yet it still initialises against a backend and still owes the lifecycle contract. Too lax: FeatureProviderStateManager emits PROVIDER_READY/PROVIDER_ERROR around initialize for any provider, whether or not it is an EventProvider. So a provider that does no initialisation of its own reaches READY exactly as NoOpProvider would, and the readiness scenario passes vacuously. Adds Capability.LIFECYCLE ("@lifecycle") -- performs an initialisation that reaches its backend, with an observable outcome -- and re-vendors lifecycle.feature verbatim from the spec assets, where the feature-level tag is now @lifecycle (spec dfa16586, PR open-feature/spec#423). flagd declares LIFECYCLE in both resolver modes: RPC does a round trip and in-process syncs the whole ruleset during initialisation, so the scenarios assert something real there. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

…pec submodule The Gherkin, the canonical flag set and the control API document are not Java artifacts. They are language-agnostic definitions of the provider contract that every language's TCK must agree on byte for byte, and they only lived in this module because the proof of concept had to start somewhere. They now live in open-feature/spec as Appendix F, under specification/assets/provider-tck/, and are copied in from the `spec` git submodule at generate-resources — the same mechanism tools/flagd-api-testkit already uses for the flagd test harness. The copies are git-ignored and carry a do-not-edit note; changes belong in the spec repo and arrive here by bumping the submodule. Consumers are unaffected: the artifacts are still packaged into the release JAR, @SelectClasspathResource("features") still resolves, and nobody needs a submodule of their own. Verified byte-identical after the round trip. The in-memory CI job now checks out submodules, since without them there is no suite to run. DEPENDS ON open-feature/spec#423. The submodule is pinned to that PR's branch commit rather than to a commit on the spec repo's main branch. That is reachable, so CI can fetch it, but it must be re-pinned to main once #423 merges and before this lands. The pin is the branch tip rather than the first commit of that PR, so the copied assets carry the `@numeric-coercion` vocabulary and the reserved-capability control API this branch already uses. Verified byte-identical against the artifacts this commit deletes. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

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A vendor with provider-specific features -- flagd's fractional targeting, a proprietary evaluation mode -- had no way to test them inside this suite. The only option was a second Cucumber runner of their own, which means a second backend lifecycle to start and a second copy of this suite's configuration to keep in step with it. Answers @toddbaert's review request on open-feature/spec#423. The suite now also selects the classpath directory tck-extensions/ and the glue package openfeature.tck.extensions. An adopter writes two files and no annotations: src/test/resources/tck-extensions/fractional.feature src/test/java/openfeature/tck/extensions/FractionalSteps.java Their scenarios are discovered into the same suite and the same Cucumber engine, and therefore the same @BeforeAll -- one backend lifecycle, one BackendControl. The canonical steps are on the glue path too, so an extension scenario can open with `Given a stable provider` and continue with whatever is specific to that provider. The extension directory is deliberately not features/ and not a subdirectory of it. Measured on this module: two classpath roots holding the same directory are scanned additively, but two holding the same directory *and* the same file name are not -- one wins silently and the other file is never read, with test-classes beating the jar. An adopter who put features/errors.feature in their test resources would replace a canonical file with their own and watch the suite report success having run theirs. A distinct name makes that collision unreachable rather than documented. The directory ships inside the jar holding nothing but a README, because a @SelectClasspathResource naming a resource that exists on no classpath root is a hard discovery error rather than an empty selection -- so an adopter who extends nothing must still resolve it. Cucumber ignores files that are not .feature, and tolerates a glue package that does not exist, so the unused extension point costs an adopter nothing. Also adds ProviderTck, which names every value the suite's annotations carry. An annotation value has to be a compile-time constant, so an adopter who writes a @ConfigurationParameter of their own cannot compute one; without the constants they would restate our package name or our object factory as a string literal that nothing keeps in step. Constant concatenation is legal in an annotation value, so ProviderTck.ALL_GLUE + ",com.vendor.steps" is what they write instead. The TCK's own fixture -- tck-extensions/extension-selftest.feature and a step class in openfeature.tck.extensions -- is test-scoped, so it is not in the released jar and cannot reach an adopter's run. It sits exactly where an adopter's would, which is the only way to check the convention rather than assert it about a path no build uses. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

The spec PR was split: the assets are open-feature/spec#423 and the appendix is #439. This pin follows the assets, so appendix review no longer moves it. PINNED_DIGEST is unchanged, and that is the point: the digest covers flags/, gherkin/ and openapi/, all byte-identical across the move. Only the assets README differs, and it is not an artifact. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

open-feature/spec#423 now stacks on #440, which owns the release configuration, so the assets branch moved. Artifacts are byte-identical, so PINNED_DIGEST is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>

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feat(provider-tck): source the spec artifacts from the open-feature/spec submodule open-feature/java-sdk-contrib#1838

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