sminnee/silverstripe-featureflags

An experimental module for allowing admin-controlled feature flags in a SilverStripe app

silverstripe-featureflags's Issues

Feature request: Flag toggle scheduling

Add scheduling feature to enablement of feature, allowing unattended releases out of hours.

Shift context-matching and saving to FieldProvider

Right now FieldProvider must enumerate the IDs of each context record it saves. This is fine in most cases, but if you wanted to for instance select Member context by group then you would need to list all members of that group, which is brittle and inefficient.

One approach would be:

• Shift code for looking up by ContextKey / ContextID from FeatureFlagChecker to FieldProvider
• Consider adding a ContextType varchar(255) field alongside ContextKey and ContextID to give FieldProvider more flexibility. E.g. ContextKey = Member, ContextType = ByGroup, ContextID = 5.
• Re-think how FeatureFlagSwitcher works.
• Add a trait that implements the current default behaviour.

Alternatively, the context data could be saved as a JSON payload but the ability to look up only the relevant context record via the ORM is good for efficiency, so a JSON payload would be suboptimal.

Leverage existing packages?

This sounds pretty similar to another library I found https://github.com/bestit/flagception-sdk Possibly look at leveraging that for features and making this more of a silverstripe wrapper? It has some nice features like being able to cache flag calls that might need more processing.

Better UI control than CheckboxSetField for selecting items

Right members / projects / etc are selected with a CheckboxSetField. This doesn't scale well and is a pain point of actually using the UI.

A better UI control, e.g. a list with an autocomplete-based picker, would be better. It's possible that GridField can be used to build this, but would need testing.