test(ofrep): run the provider conformance suite against flagd's OFREP API

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Stacked on #411, which is stacked on #409. Base is feat/provider-tck-flagd, so this diff shows
only the new work. Review #409 first — it describes the suite, the adoption API and the capability
vocabulary, and none of that is repeated here.

Part of open-feature/spec#417.

The OFREP provider under the conformance suite, pointed at flagd's OFREP API — the same backend the
flagd adoption uses, so a difference in results is attributable to the provider rather than to the
backend.

What it declares

capabilities={
    Capability.OBJECT,
    Capability.VARIANTS,
    Capability.TARGETING,
    Capability.STANDARD_REASONS,
}

The provider is stateless: it resolves every flag over the wire and has no connection to lose, no
stream to watch and nothing to announce. So @events, @lifecycle, @stale,
@configuration-change and @unavailable are withheld because there is nothing in the provider that
could observe a backend transition. That is the case that motivated splitting @lifecycle out of
@events in the first place: the SDK synthesises PROVIDER_READY for a provider with no state
handling, so a stateless provider declaring @events would have passed the readiness scenario
without demonstrating anything — a no-op provider passes it identically.

No known deviations. The two withholdings below are the interesting part, and each is recorded
with its measurement rather than its reasoning.

@numeric-coercion: over OFREP, this capability follows the language's JSON library

Withheld. The tag has three scenarios and a declarer must satisfy all three — the two lossless rows
exist precisely to catch the shortcut of rejecting every float. This provider takes that shortcut:
json.loads yields int for 10 and float for 0.5, and the check admits a value only on an
exact isinstance. Nothing widens or narrows. So the lossy row passes — float-flag as an Integer is
a TYPE_MISMATCH, not a silent 0 — and integer-flag as a Float fails, because 10 is not an
instance of float.

Java's OFREP adoption withholds it for the identical reason (Jackson, exact type.isInstance). Go
declares it, and the difference is encoding/json rather than anything a provider author chose:
every JSON number becomes a float64, so integer-ness never survives the wire and ResolveInt has to
round-trip through int64 — which gives lossless coercion and a TYPE_MISMATCH on loss for free.

No deviation entry accompanies it: a deviation records a gap in behaviour the provider is required
to have, and Appendix F stopped presenting the coercion rule as normative OpenFeature. This provider
never attempts coercion at all, which is the case the appendix reserves withholding for.

@disabled-flags: the appendix's own rationale does not survive contact, and the gap is one .get

Withheld, and the reason contradicts what the appendix predicts. It gates the tag on the reasoning
that a provider "whose backend decides, such as one speaking OFREP, cannot: the server never sees the
caller's default, so it has no way to return it".

Neither half of that is the obstacle. flagd's OFREP endpoint answers a disabled flag with 200 and
{"key":…,"reason":"DISABLED"} — no value, exactly as the appendix says — and this provider already
reads data.get("value", default_value) and substitutes the caller's default. What fails is the very
next line, which indexes data["variant"] unconditionally. flagd omits the member, types.md types
the field optional, and the resolution raises KeyError, which the SDK reports as GENERAL. The
whole of the difference between passing and failing these four rows is one .get — and it is not
confined to disabled flags: the same index breaks on any OFREP response that omits the variant, which
being optional permits for any reason. Filed as
#418.

This is the one declaration in these suites the corrected appendix says should change, and it is
flagged rather than quietly left. Since spec 045950ca, a provider that attempts the behaviour and
gets it wrong should declare the tag, let the scenarios fail, and record a deviation. This provider
does attempt it. It is left in the withheld shape only because the pass that found it was a
documentation pass and changing it moves a count — it should be corrected before merge, and the
measurement to do it with is recorded: declaring the tag moves the same four rows from skipped to
failed, each on error-code was 'GENERAL', expected none.

The backend stack

Both packages keep their own tests/tck/docker-compose.yaml and the two are byte-identical: the
unmodified flagd-testbed image, service backend, publishing 8013, 8015, 8016 and 8080 with no
host port bindings. Each suite asks the harness only for the ports it needs.

Both are on flagd-testbed:v3.10.1, aligned with the other three languages, which were split
between v3.10.1 and the v3.8.0 this repository had been pinned to. The bump fixes nothing on its
own — flagd-testbed#392 and
#394 are both still open, so neither the
three missing precision flags nor the /start readiness fix is in it. The one behavioural change in
range, #390, increases the simulated downtime
that @stale and @unavailable depend on. The tallies below have been re-measured on v3.10.1 and are
unchanged — same counts, same failures by name.

The other three languages consolidated to a single file per repository; Python deliberately did not,
and the reason is packaging rather than preference. uv build --sdist shows the flagd package
(hatchling) ships tests/, while the OFREP package (uv_build, module-root = "src") ships no
tests at all — so a shared file above either package directory would not travel with flagd's
distribution, and pointing one package's conftest at the other's files is the coupling these
adoptions were separated to avoid. The duplication and the diff that catches drift are named in
both files' headers.

Running it, and the tally

poe test-tck

65 scenarios: 45 pass, 17 skip, 2 fail, 1 xfail. The two failures are the large-integer-flag
fixture gap — flagd-testbed seeds neither large-integer-flag nor integral-float-flag in v3.8.0,
where this was measured, nor in v3.10.1, which the suite now runs — so
the mandatory precision scenario and the max-int32 @variants row both fail with the flag missing.
flagd-testbed#392 fixes both. Neither gets a
deviation entry: the gap is in the backend's flag set.

The xfail is python-sdk#619 — a boolean
satisfies an Integer request, because bool subclasses int — marked strict=True so it stays
visible in the report and fails the moment it starts passing, which forces the marker's removal when a
release carries the fix. It matches on the test's parameter id, which carries no module component, so
the rename in this stack could not reach it; verified by the marker still firing with its reason
attached after the move.

The control, and a workaround that was removed

A stateless provider exposes a race the flagd adoption cannot: with no initialisation to hide behind,
a scenario issues its first evaluation the instant POST /start returns — before the seeded flag
state is being served. The control API forbids that (/start must not return until the seeded state
is served) and flagd-testbed breaks it;
flagd-testbed#394 measures and closes it,
and is open.

This suite carried a SettledControl that wrapped the control API and polled the OFREP endpoint until
a reseeded flag actually resolved. That is removed, for two reasons.

The first is principle, and Appendix F now says it: a backend returning before it serves has a defect
to fix in the backend, and an adoption that compensates cannot be compared with one that does not
against the same backend. The appendix previously prescribed exactly this shape and no longer does.

The second is that it was buying nothing. Removing it left this suite on the identical tally —
2 failed, 45 passed, 17 skipped, 1 xfailed — over four consecutive runs, each 20s rather than 45s
because it had stopped polling for a condition that was already true. 151 lines defending against a
window this suite was not in fact losing to, which is how a compensating wait usually ends: hard to
show is load-bearing, easy to leave in long after its defect is fixed.

The race is still real. Read a red run against the two-failure floor and repeat it before blaming the
provider — the race moves between scenarios, a defect does not.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds OFREP provider TCK dependencies, a session-scoped flagd testbed, readiness-aware scenario control, capability declarations, shared BDD scenario registration, and one strict expected-failure marker.

Changes

OFREP TCK integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Testbed lifecycle and dependencies providers/openfeature-provider-ofrep/pyproject.toml, providers/openfeature-provider-ofrep/tests/tck/testbed.py	The development environment adds the provider TCK, pytest-bdd, and testcontainers. The testbed starts flagd with Docker Compose, waits for /readyz, and exposes mapped OFREP and launchpad URLs.
Scenario reseeding and readiness control providers/openfeature-provider-ofrep/tests/tck/settled_control.py, providers/openfeature-provider-ofrep/tests/tck/conftest.py	SettledControl delegates scenario changes to HttpControl and polls the OFREP probe flag until the backend responds successfully. Session fixtures create the testbed and control.
Capability declaration and scenario registration providers/openfeature-provider-ofrep/tests/tck/test_ofrep_conformance.py, providers/openfeature-provider-ofrep/tests/tck/conftest.py	The suite configures OFREPProvider, declares OBJECT and STRICT_NUMERIC_TYPING, registers shared BDD scenarios, and marks one untyped numeric mismatch as a strict expected failure.

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

Suggested reviewers: federicobond

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Pytest
  participant FlagdTestbed
  participant SettledControl
  participant OFREPProvider
  participant flagd
  Pytest->>FlagdTestbed: start session testbed
  FlagdTestbed->>flagd: start Compose stack
  FlagdTestbed->>flagd: poll /readyz
  flagd-->>FlagdTestbed: HTTP 200
  Pytest->>SettledControl: prepare scenario
  SettledControl->>OFREPProvider: probe boolean-flag
  OFREPProvider->>flagd: evaluate flag
  flagd-->>OFREPProvider: resolution response
  OFREPProvider-->>SettledControl: HTTP 200
  Pytest->>OFREPProvider: run TCK evaluation

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 30b34

A failed testbed startup can leave Docker containers and temporary flag data behind, which may interfere with later tests or consume local/CI resources. This bounded cleanup issue should be fixed before merging.

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Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 40.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 20 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely states that the change runs the OFREP provider conformance suite against flagd's OFREP API.

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In `@providers/openfeature-provider-ofrep/tests/tck/testbed.py`:
- Around line 107-124: Update the testbed startup flow around start and the
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Clean up testbed resources on every startup path.

Line 168 calls testbed.start() before the try block. If DockerCompose.start() starts containers and _await_ready() then fails, testbed.stop() does not run. Line 107 also creates _flags_dir, but stop() never removes it.

Put startup inside the try block. Remove _flags_dir in a finally block in stop().

Proposed fix

+import shutil
+
 def stop(self) -> None:
-    self._compose.stop()
+    try:
+        self._compose.stop()
+    finally:
+        shutil.rmtree(self._flags_dir, ignore_errors=True)

 def running_testbed() -> typing.Iterator[FlagdTestbed]:
     testbed = FlagdTestbed()
-    testbed.start()
     try:
+        testbed.start()
         yield testbed
     finally:
         testbed.stop()

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In `@providers/openfeature-provider-ofrep/tests/tck/testbed.py` around lines 107 -
124, Update the testbed startup flow around start and the existing try block so
DockerCompose.start and readiness checks are covered by cleanup when startup
fails. Extend FlagdTestbed.stop to remove the temporary _flags_dir in a finally
block, ensuring directory cleanup occurs even if compose shutdown raises.