[Proposal] Multipurpose CLI tool

[dabeeeenster]

Category of Proposal

Other

Describe your proposal

The OpenFeature project could benefit from a multi-purpose, cross-platform CLI tool that can help with common flag-related engineering tasks, but in a general purpose way across different providers. Some common uses cases that would be valuable across providers might include:

• Exporting and Importing flags between providers or to other datastores (flat file etc)
• Searching code bases for flag references and generating reports/pushing that data somewhere
• Finding stale flags
• Helping with provider migrations in code (e.g. adding // todo: comments etc)
• ...

Much in the same way that the SDK spec generalises SDK interfaces and provides provider-specific implementations with a pluggable approach, the CLI tool could follow the same pattern.

This tool could be used both by humans but also by CI/CD pipelines, IDEs and no doubt other actors.

Having a single cross-platform binary CLI with one or two key uses-cases and providers would be a great base to build from.

[weyert]

Yeah, I think is an awesome idea :)

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[beeme1mr]

We talked about this during the last GC meeting. There may be an opportunity to use an OpenFeature CLI for provider migrations and generating type-safe OpenFeature clients.

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[maanugh]

I'm thrilled about the idea of using the OpenFeature CLI for provider migrations and generating type-safe OpenFeature clients. It's an exciting opportunity to enhance the project's capabilities.

I'm eager to contribute to this initiative and would love to know how I can get involved.

[dabeeeenster]

Hi @kiratsingh98 - we havent started working on this in terms of writing any code. A very very simple POC demonstrating the plugin architecture would be great - but we need to agree on language/framework/tooling...

[beeme1mr]

Hey @kiratsingh98 @dabeeeenster , I started working on a prototype over the holidays. I plan to demo it to the GC at the next meeting to see if we would like to add it to the project officially. I think there's a ton of potential.

[maanugh]

Great! Could you please send me the details of the meeting? // @beeme1mr

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