feat(flags): decouple local evaluation from personal API keys; support decrypting remote config payloads without relying on the feature flags poller #282
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This PR decouples feature flag local evaluation from personal API keys and adds remote config payload decryption without requiring the feature flags poller.
- Added
enable_local_evaluationparameter (defaults to True) inposthog/client.pyto optionally disable local feature flag evaluation - Version bump to 6.1.0 in
posthog/version.pyreflecting new feature addition - Modified poller initialization in
posthog/client.pyto only start when local evaluation is enabled - Added new test coverage in
posthog/test/test_client.pyfor remote config payload handling without local evaluation - Maintains backward compatibility while offering more efficient SDK usage when only remote config payloads are needed
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| 1. feat: decouple feature flag local evaluation from personal API keys; support decrypting remote config payloads without relying on the feature flags poller | |||
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style: Numbering list items (1.) is inconsistent with other feature entries in changelog that use dashes (-)
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| # Whether to enable feature flag polling for local evaluation by default. Defaults to True. | ||
| # We recommend setting this to False if you are only using the personalApiKey for evaluating remote config payloads via `get_remote_config_payload` and not using local evaluation. | ||
| enable_local_evaluation = True # type: bool |
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style: default bool settings should follow the pattern DEFAULT_ENABLE_LOCAL_EVALUATION = True to match Python conventions. Current mutable module-level variable can be modified accidentally
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| # Whether to enable feature flag polling for local evaluation by default. Defaults to True. | |
| # We recommend setting this to False if you are only using the personalApiKey for evaluating remote config payloads via `get_remote_config_payload` and not using local evaluation. | |
| enable_local_evaluation = True # type: bool | |
| # Whether to enable feature flag polling for local evaluation by default. Defaults to True. | |
| # We recommend setting this to False if you are only using the personalApiKey for evaluating remote config payloads via `get_remote_config_payload` and not using local evaluation. | |
| DEFAULT_ENABLE_LOCAL_EVALUATION = True # type: bool |
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nope wrong; this is a config entry you IDIOT
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Parity with the Node SDK changes I made here