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When a flag targets users by list, every evaluation costs time proportional to the list's length. IsOneOf/NotOneOf also re-parses its JSON value on every call:
EvaluatorImp.oneOfClause calls JsonHelper.deserialize(condition.getValue(), List<String>), then List.contains, on every evaluation. inSegmentClause does the same for the list of segment IDs.
TargetUser.isTargeted scans keyIds with stream().anyMatch(equals).
Segment.isMatchUser scans included and excluded with List.contains.
Take a segment rule with 10,000 user_id values in IsOneOf. One evaluation of a flag using it takes 0.23–0.63 ms and allocates about 930 KB, whether or not the user is in the list. At 1,000 evaluations/s of one such flag, that is about 0.6 of a CPU core and 0.9 GB/s of garbage. The extra GC pauses then slow every other flag in the process.
Change
Each list is parsed once, in the existing afterDeserialization() hook (the one that already builds FeatureFlag.variationMap):
TargetUser: a set of keyIds. The class now has @JsonAdapter(AfterJsonParseDeserializableTypeAdapterFactory.class).
Segment: sets of included and excluded.
Condition: the parsed value, for IsOneOf, NotOneOf, User is in segment and User is not in segment only. It also has @JsonAdapter(...) now. Conditions with other operators are untouched.
IsOneOf/NotOneOf values become an unmodifiable HashSet, because membership has no order.
Segment IDs become an unmodifiable List in their original order. Segments are checked in the listed order and evaluation stops at the first match, so a set could reorder them. The second commit fixes exactly this: with a set, a later segment whose value is invalid could be checked first and turn a match into an evaluation error.
oneOfClause and inSegmentClause use the parsed values. If a value isn't a JSON list, the parsed value stays null and evaluation falls back to the original parse. So invalid values behave exactly as before: the client returns the default with error in evaluation.
The parsed values can't go stale. Every full sync and every streaming patch deserializes new FeatureFlag/Segment objects, and InMemoryDataStorage replaces items rather than modifying them. The new fields are transient, so serialization is unchanged.
Results
Per evaluation. Measured with JMH: Java 21, one thread, Apple Silicon laptop, 1 fork, 3×1 s warm-up, 5×1 s measurement, -prof gc. Each call went through a thin application gRPC handler around boolVariationDetail; that handler accounts for about 0.2 µs and 1.3–2.7 KB of each call. "Last" and "miss" are the cases where the old code scans the whole list. The benchmark ran twice on the same classpath, once with the 1.4.5 jar and once with this change; nothing else differed.
Targeting
Entries
1.4.5 (ns)
This PR (ns)
Allocation per call
Included users, last/miss
1,000
2,460–2,610
206–278
about the same (handler only)
5,000
12,100–12,300
202–295
about the same
10,000
23,300–24,500
194–273
about the same
Segment rule, user_id IsOneOf, any position
1,000
21,400–24,500
455–506
100 KB → 2.7 KB
5,000
112,000–122,000
474–493
460 KB → 2.7 KB
10,000
230,000–626,000
422–469
930 KB → 2.6 KB
The 10,000-entry IsOneOf timing varied a lot between JVM runs on 1.4.5. With this change it doesn't, because the per-call parse is gone.
Per sync. The cost moves to sync time: it's paid once per update, in proportion to the total number of list entries. These are offline initializeFromExternalJson full syncs, median of 60 after 60 warm-up. The "ordinary" flags each have 20 included keys and a 10-value IsOneOf rule; every row also has one 10k-key flag and one 10k user_id segment.
Flags
Payload
Full sync, 1.4.5 → this PR
2
0.62 MB
0.62 → 1.3–1.4 ms
302
1.2 MB
2.2 → 3.2 ms
1,002
2.5 MB
4.7 → 6.8 ms
A streaming patch parses only the items it carries, so only their sets are rebuilt. Evaluation time doesn't depend on how many flags exist, because flags are looked up by key.
Segments per flag. One flag references S segments, and each segment has one rule root_business_id IsOneOf with N distinct IDs. We tested two flag shapes: one rule whose single condition lists all S segments, and one rule per segment. Each case was checked for the expected result first, then timed per call on one thread: 1 s warm-up, then up to 2 s or 65,536 calls. "Miss" means the user is in no segment, so every segment is checked. These numbers are with both commits.
N IDs × S segments
1.4.5, miss, p50 / p99
This PR, miss, p50 / p99 (one condition · rule per segment)
User in the first listed segment, 1.4.5 → this PR
100 × 1
2.6 / 3.8 µs
0.3 / 0.5 µs · 0.3 / 0.5 µs
2.6 → 0.3 µs
1,000 × 10
188 / 216 µs
1.0 / 1.5 µs · 1.5 / 2.2 µs
19 → 0.3 µs
10,000 × 100
17,600 / 18,700 µs
9.9 / 15.1 µs · 15.5 / 21.5 µs
176 → 0.3 µs
With 1.4.5, each call parses every ID in every segment it checks until one matches (about 18 ns per ID), so 1M IDs cost about 17.6 ms per miss. With this change, the cost depends on the number of segments checked, about 0.1–0.2 µs each, not on how many IDs they hold.
Memory. This is the trade-off. 1.4.5 keeps each list only as the raw JSON string. This change also keeps the parsed strings and the hash set, about 87 bytes per ID: roughly 0.9 MB per 10,000 IDs, or about 100 MB per million. Retained heap below is used heap after GC, measured before and after loading the data (about 1 MB of noise).
N IDs × S segments
Payload
Full sync, 1.4.5 → this PR
Retained heap, 1.4.5 → this PR
100 × 1
<0.1 MB
0.1 → 0.2 ms
~1 → ~1 MB
1,000 × 10
0.1 MB
0.4 → 0.7 ms
1.0 → 1.9 MB
10,000 × 100
13.1 MB
18 → 47 ms
12 → 99 MB
During a full sync, the old and new data are both in memory until the store swaps them, so the peak is higher; we didn't measure it. The per-evaluation and per-sync tables above use one segment per condition, so the second commit doesn't change them.
Live. We also ran lists through a real FeatBit Relay to a server SDK. With 1.4.5 and 1k/5k/10k lists, evaluation times grew with list length the same way they did offline: the median was 62/318/635 µs for the user_id segment and 3.9/15.7/31.5 µs for included users, and segment updates reached the SDK in 8–23 ms.
We then repeated a live run on 1.4.5 and on this change, with one condition listing 10 segments of 1,000 IDs each. Median per evaluation:
User is in
1.4.5
This PR
the first segment
36 µs
2.7 µs
the last segment
279 µs
4.4 µs
no segment
277 µs
3.7 µs
With this change, segment updates still reached the SDK in 15–28 ms.
Testing
ListTargetingTest uses only the public API: an offline FBClientImp, re-initialized with newer data each time. It checks:
Included users, segment included/excluded keys, and IsOneOf/NotOneOf all follow each replacement. Removed entries stop matching and added ones start matching.
Segment excluded still takes priority over included.
Equal and MatchRegex rules are unaffected.
An invalid IsOneOf value still returns the default with error in evaluation.
When one condition lists a matching segment and then a segment with an invalid value, the result is still a match. This test fails on the first commit alone, for 20 segment-ID pairs.
4 threads evaluate continuously during 200 rapid replacements without getting an error result, and the final state matches the last replacement.
Results:
mvn test with both commits: 73 of 73 pass (65 existing and 8 new).
The new tests on the unchanged 1.4.5 code: 8 of 8 pass, so they describe existing behavior.
The ordering test on the first commit alone: fails, as described above.
With the sets deliberately replaced by empty sets (checked on the first commit, with the first 7 tests): 5 of the 7 fail, so the tests do go through the new set path. The two that still pass are the cases that don't use sets.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
Updated targeting rules now consistently reflect changes to included and excluded users, segment membership, and list-based conditions during evaluation.
Segment ID conditions continue to be evaluated in their listed order, so an earlier matching segment takes precedence over later rules.
Invalid one-of values continue to use the configured default and report an evaluation error.
Equal and regular-expression matching behavior remains consistent during evaluation, including while segment data is being replaced.
Confidence Score: 5/5
The PR appears safe to merge; the reader-latch finding is fixed and no new issues were found.
Summary
The PR builds list lookups once per sync instead of parsing and scanning lists on every evaluation.
Flag evaluations check large targeting lists without rescanning them.
No new issues were found in the change since the previous review.
Included users, segment included/excluded keys and IsOneOf/NotOneOf
values were scanned on every evaluation, and IsOneOf values were also
re-parsed from JSON each time. Build each list into a set in
afterDeserialization() instead, falling back to the original parse
when a value isn't a JSON list.
The data model caches segment and target-user IDs and parses supported list-based condition values after deserialization. The evaluator uses parsed values when available. New tests cover targeting updates, evaluation results, and concurrent replacements.
Changes: List targeting
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Summary
Targeting data and parsed values src/main/java/co/featbit/server/DataModel.java
Segment and target-user membership checks use cached sets. Conditions parse supported list operators after deserialization; one-of values use an unmodifiable set, while segment values retain list order.
Evaluator list matching src/main/java/co/featbit/server/EvaluatorImp.java
Segment and one-of clauses use parsed values when available and otherwise parse the raw value. Existing matching and parse-error behavior remains in place.
Targeting replacement and evaluation tests src/test/java/co/featbit/server/ListTargetingTest.java
Tests cover replacements, segment evaluation order, invalid one-of input, and concurrent evaluation during replacements.
The change is mergeable with follow-up to strengthen the concurrent replacement test, which currently does not guarantee evaluations occur during replacements.
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Evaluation stops at the first matching segment, so keep the parsed
segment IDs as a list instead of a set. With a set, a later segment
whose value is invalid could be checked first and turn a match into an
evaluation error.
A reader thread that first ran after the replacements finished saw the
done flag, returned zero evaluations and failed the test. Each reader
now evaluates at least once and the replacements wait for all four, so
they always overlap concurrent evaluations.
Add a test that fails when evaluation stops using the prepared one-of values.
ListTargetingTest asserts only evaluation outcomes. EvaluatorImp.oneOfClause reads condition.getParsedValues() and reparses condition.getValue() only when that result is null. Every test in the class uses a raw value that gives the same answer as the prepared collection. If oneOfClause always reparses the raw value, all of these tests still pass. The per-evaluation lookup that this change adds has no regression test.
Add a test that sets the prepared collection to a value that differs from the raw value. Then assert that evaluation follows the prepared collection. Set parsedValues through a package-private hook or reflection. A test that only asserts getParsedValues() is non-null checks deserialization, not evaluation.
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Review comment at @src/test/java/co/featbit/server/ListTargetingTest.java around
lines 61 - 70:
Add a regression test in ListTargetingTest that sets a condition’s prepared
one-of values to differ from its raw value, then asserts evaluate follows the
prepared values. Use an available package-private test hook or reflection to set
the prepared values, and ensure the test would fail if EvaluatorImp.oneOfClause
reparsed the raw value instead.
Assert a stable reason for a user that is in both lists.
Assert a stable reason for a user that is in both lists.
The worker loop accepts REASON_FALLTHROUGH for every sampled user. first and second are disjoint, so user 0 matches only while first is active, and user 1000 matches only while second is active. Because the loop accepts either reason, a missed match for a user in the active list still passes. Add a user to both lists and require REASON_RULE_MATCH for that user on every evaluation. This detects a missed match during replacement without recording list generations.
Suggested fix
- int[] second = IntStream.range(size, 2 * size).toArray();+ // user 0 is in both lists, so it must match in every generation+ int[] second = IntStream.concat(IntStream.of(0), IntStream.range(size, 2 * size)).toArray();
for (int index : new int[]{0, size - 1, size, 2 * size - 1}) {
String reason = detail(index, false).getReason();
- if (!reason.equals(REASON_RULE_MATCH) && !reason.equals(REASON_FALLTHROUGH)) {+ boolean valid = index == 0+ ? reason.equals(REASON_RULE_MATCH)+ : reason.equals(REASON_RULE_MATCH) || reason.equals(REASON_FALLTHROUGH);+ if (!valid) {
throw new AssertionError("user " + index + ": " + reason);
}
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Review comment at @src/test/java/co/featbit/server/ListTargetingTest.java around
lines 163 - 175:
Update the list setup and worker evaluation loop around `detail` so a sampled
user present in both lists must return `REASON_RULE_MATCH` on every evaluation;
keep accepting either existing reason for users present in only one list.
Ensure the replacement loop overlaps reader evaluations.
The readers signal the latch after one pass and then continue until done is set in finally. Nothing requires them to evaluate while the 200 replacements run. If the readers are not scheduled during that loop, the test passes without the overlap its comment describes. Consider making the test confirm overlap, for example by requiring each reader to record an evaluation after replacements start before the replacement loop ends.
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Review comment at @src/test/java/co/featbit/server/ListTargetingTest.java around
lines 175 - 177:
Update the reader coordination in ListTargetingTest around firstPass and started
so the replacement loop cannot finish until each reader has recorded an
evaluation after replacements begin. Preserve the existing reader shutdown
through done in finally, and make the test assert genuine overlap rather than
merely that readers started.
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Problem
When a flag targets users by list, every evaluation costs time proportional to the list's length.
IsOneOf/NotOneOfalso re-parses its JSON value on every call:EvaluatorImp.oneOfClausecallsJsonHelper.deserialize(condition.getValue(), List<String>), thenList.contains, on every evaluation.inSegmentClausedoes the same for the list of segment IDs.TargetUser.isTargetedscanskeyIdswithstream().anyMatch(equals).Segment.isMatchUserscansincludedandexcludedwithList.contains.Take a segment rule with 10,000
user_idvalues inIsOneOf. One evaluation of a flag using it takes 0.23–0.63 ms and allocates about 930 KB, whether or not the user is in the list. At 1,000 evaluations/s of one such flag, that is about 0.6 of a CPU core and 0.9 GB/s of garbage. The extra GC pauses then slow every other flag in the process.Change
Each list is parsed once, in the existing
afterDeserialization()hook (the one that already buildsFeatureFlag.variationMap):TargetUser: a set ofkeyIds. The class now has@JsonAdapter(AfterJsonParseDeserializableTypeAdapterFactory.class).Segment: sets ofincludedandexcluded.Condition: the parsed value, forIsOneOf,NotOneOf,User is in segmentandUser is not in segmentonly. It also has@JsonAdapter(...)now. Conditions with other operators are untouched.IsOneOf/NotOneOfvalues become an unmodifiableHashSet, because membership has no order.Listin their original order. Segments are checked in the listed order and evaluation stops at the first match, so a set could reorder them. The second commit fixes exactly this: with a set, a later segment whose value is invalid could be checked first and turn a match into an evaluation error.oneOfClauseandinSegmentClauseuse the parsed values. If a value isn't a JSON list, the parsed value staysnulland evaluation falls back to the original parse. So invalid values behave exactly as before: the client returns the default witherror in evaluation.The parsed values can't go stale. Every full sync and every streaming patch deserializes new
FeatureFlag/Segmentobjects, andInMemoryDataStoragereplaces items rather than modifying them. The new fields aretransient, so serialization is unchanged.Results
Per evaluation. Measured with JMH: Java 21, one thread, Apple Silicon laptop, 1 fork, 3×1 s warm-up, 5×1 s measurement,
-prof gc. Each call went through a thin application gRPC handler aroundboolVariationDetail; that handler accounts for about 0.2 µs and 1.3–2.7 KB of each call. "Last" and "miss" are the cases where the old code scans the whole list. The benchmark ran twice on the same classpath, once with the 1.4.5 jar and once with this change; nothing else differed.user_id IsOneOf, any positionThe 10,000-entry
IsOneOftiming varied a lot between JVM runs on 1.4.5. With this change it doesn't, because the per-call parse is gone.Per sync. The cost moves to sync time: it's paid once per update, in proportion to the total number of list entries. These are offline
initializeFromExternalJsonfull syncs, median of 60 after 60 warm-up. The "ordinary" flags each have 20 included keys and a 10-valueIsOneOfrule; every row also has one 10k-key flag and one 10kuser_idsegment.A streaming patch parses only the items it carries, so only their sets are rebuilt. Evaluation time doesn't depend on how many flags exist, because flags are looked up by key.
Segments per flag. One flag references S segments, and each segment has one rule
root_business_id IsOneOfwith N distinct IDs. We tested two flag shapes: one rule whose single condition lists all S segments, and one rule per segment. Each case was checked for the expected result first, then timed per call on one thread: 1 s warm-up, then up to 2 s or 65,536 calls. "Miss" means the user is in no segment, so every segment is checked. These numbers are with both commits.With 1.4.5, each call parses every ID in every segment it checks until one matches (about 18 ns per ID), so 1M IDs cost about 17.6 ms per miss. With this change, the cost depends on the number of segments checked, about 0.1–0.2 µs each, not on how many IDs they hold.
Memory. This is the trade-off. 1.4.5 keeps each list only as the raw JSON string. This change also keeps the parsed strings and the hash set, about 87 bytes per ID: roughly 0.9 MB per 10,000 IDs, or about 100 MB per million. Retained heap below is used heap after GC, measured before and after loading the data (about 1 MB of noise).
During a full sync, the old and new data are both in memory until the store swaps them, so the peak is higher; we didn't measure it. The per-evaluation and per-sync tables above use one segment per condition, so the second commit doesn't change them.
Live. We also ran lists through a real FeatBit Relay to a server SDK. With 1.4.5 and 1k/5k/10k lists, evaluation times grew with list length the same way they did offline: the median was 62/318/635 µs for the
user_idsegment and 3.9/15.7/31.5 µs for included users, and segment updates reached the SDK in 8–23 ms.We then repeated a live run on 1.4.5 and on this change, with one condition listing 10 segments of 1,000 IDs each. Median per evaluation:
With this change, segment updates still reached the SDK in 15–28 ms.
Testing
ListTargetingTestuses only the public API: an offlineFBClientImp, re-initialized with newer data each time. It checks:IsOneOf/NotOneOfall follow each replacement. Removed entries stop matching and added ones start matching.excludedstill takes priority overincluded.EqualandMatchRegexrules are unaffected.IsOneOfvalue still returns the default witherror in evaluation.Results:
mvn testwith both commits: 73 of 73 pass (65 existing and 8 new).Summary by CodeRabbit
The PR appears safe to merge; the reader-latch finding is fixed and no new issues were found.Summary
The PR builds list lookups once per sync instead of parsing and scanning lists on every evaluation.
No new issues were found in the change since the previous review.
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