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Status Future consideration
Product Feature Experimentation
Categories SDKs & Agent
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 11, 2023

RELATED FEEDBACK

low level api method to manually update datafile in javascript/react sdk

Currently, I can dynamically update user context but not the datafile. I can only configure time intervals on how often sdk itself will refresh the datafile itself.
It's very limiting and I need more control over datafile updates.

I suggest to implement a feature to allow the developer to update the datafile in use on the the fly.
This low level api method will allow me to control how and specifically when it suits me and my app to update the datafile I use in the sdk.


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  • Guest
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    |     May 25, 2023

    > I see you're referring to a manual datafile pull on-demand for the SDK via a new method.
    sorta. My app will fetch new datafile updates by itself, thus i dont need sdk method to do that, although it would be nice.

    What i want is to update the instance with the new datafile i've refetched in the app.

  • Optimizely
    Russell Loube
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    |     May 25, 2023

    Hi, thanks for clarifying and my apologies for misinterpreting. I see you're referring to a manual datafile pull on-demand for the SDK via a new method. That's definitely distinct from initializing an Optimizely instance using the CDN URL.


    I understand you spoke with Dejan from our SA team about a workaround of recreating the Optimizely instance but we recognize that this is less than ideal.


    I hope I'm now understanding your feedback correctly, but please let me know if not. We'll discuss this internally and revert back with any updates. Thank you.

  • Guest
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    |     May 23, 2023

    @russel, you missed the point

    i can fetch the datafile directly from the CDN URL myself just fine and I can initiate the optimizelyInstance with fetched datafile just fine too.

    Then my web app started, user interacts with it, few minutes passed and i need to disable the feature. I do that. Datafile on the CDN is updated and got a new version. I fetch this new datafile in my app in the background and I want to update the optimizely instance with the new datafile, so the user wont see the feature no more.

    Currently, there is no way for me to manually update the optimizely instance with new datafile.

  • Optimizely
    Russell Loube
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    |     May 22, 2023

    Hi there, thanks for your feedback. Our polling and webhook methods of getting the datafile don't allow for on-the-fly updating of the datafile. Fetching the datafile directly from the CDN URL would be your best bet with what's available now, but this is not the best developer experience vs. an SDK method.


    We'll consider this enhancement as a future consideration.