feat(holdouts): add holdout support to javascript-sdk (FT-2206) - #65
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Add holdout-related optional fields to ContextData, ExperimentData, and Assignment in src/context.ts, ported from java-sdk. These are purely additive fields laying groundwork for holdout index construction, suppression logic, and exposure firing in later tasks. - ContextData.holdouts?: ExperimentData[] - ExperimentData.holdoutIds?: number[] - Assignment.suppressed?: boolean - Assignment.holdouts?: Experiment[] (resolved applicable-holdout list) - Assignment.holdoutAssignments?: (Assignment | null)[] (pinned per-holdout resolved assignments at decision time) Exposure type intentionally left unchanged.
…206) Build a live _holdoutsById index (keyed by id, skipping holdouts with no/empty split) during _init(), and resolve each experiment's applicable holdouts from its holdoutIds against it — dropping missing ids and sorting by id ascending. Store the resolved Experiment[] (or null) on the experiment's internal index entry so later suppression logic (Task 4) can copy it onto the live Assignment.holdouts field.
Add _getHoldoutAssignment(holdout, unitType), memoized by holdout id/unitType (Record<string, Assignment>), which resolves the arm a unit falls into within a holdout itself. Ported from java-sdk's getHoldoutAssignment (Context.java:1412-1468), minus the read/write-lock dance since js is single-threaded. Always resolves against the live _holdoutsById definition first (falling back to the caller-supplied reference only if the id is no longer present), returns the cached assignment if id/iteration still match, otherwise recomputes via the same VariantAssigner get-or-create pattern _assign() already uses and calls .assign() directly against the holdout's split/seedHi/seedLo (holdouts have no separate traffic-split step). Returns null without caching when no unit is set for the given unitType, so a later call recomputes once the unit is set. Not yet wired into _assign() or exposure firing (Tasks 4/6); currently unused, which trips tsc's noUnusedLocals (TS6133) and therefore fails `npm test` at the ts-jest compile step until Task 4 adds a call site - expected and tracked, not worked around.
Resolve applicable holdout assignments unconditionally in _assign() (both override and non-override paths) and compute per-experiment suppression via isHeldOutBy, ported verbatim from java-sdk's Context.isHeldOutBy. On the non-override path, a suppressed experiment is forced to assigned=false/variant=0 ahead of the audienceStrict/fullOnVariant/fullOn chain, taking precedence over custom assignments. The override path is left untouched so an explicit override still wins for the experiment's own variant, while assignment.holdouts/holdoutAssignments are still populated so the holdout's own exposure can fire independently.
…fix suppressed+custom exposure thrashing (FT-2206) Add holdoutSetMatches (ported from java-sdk Context.holdoutSetMatches, Context.java:991-1005) to _assign()'s fast-path staleness check: a cached assignment is now invalidated when the experiment's resolved applicable-holdout set differs from the set pinned on the assignment, by (id, iteration) per entry rather than full deep-equality, so cosmetic holdout edits don't force a duplicate exposure while membership/identity changes do. Also fix an exposure-thrashing bug flagged during Task 4's review: the custom-assignment mismatch check (_cassignments[name] === variant) always failed for a suppressed assignment, since suppression forces variant to 0 regardless of the custom assignment on file. This meant the fast path never reached experimentMatches/audienceMatches, so a fresh Assignment was rebuilt on every _assign() call and a duplicate exposure was queued on every treatment() call. Fixed by treating assignment.suppressed as bypassing the custom-assignment-mismatch check (suppression legitimately overrides the custom assignment per scenario 211), while still gating the early return on experimentMatches/audienceMatches/holdoutSetMatches so a real change still triggers a rebuild.
…out arm count (FT-2206) Two Important findings from Task 5 review, both fixed: - The hasOverride fast-path branch in _assign() returned the cached assignment early without checking holdoutSetMatches, unlike the non-override branch. An already-overridden experiment whose holdout coverage changed across a refresh (holdout added/removed, or an applicable holdout's iteration changed) kept returning the same frozen Assignment forever, with holdouts/holdoutAssignments/ suppressed stuck at their last-rebuild values. Fixed by requiring holdoutSetMatches(experiment, assignment) alongside the existing overridden/variant checks (skipped when experiment is null, since there's nothing to check against). - isHeldOutBy's arm-count argument was read from the live holdout definition (holdouts[i].data.split.length) instead of the arm count the cached holdout Assignment's variant was actually resolved against. Since _getHoldoutAssignment's cache only invalidates on (id, iteration) change, a same-iteration split-length change could desync the live arm count from the pinned resolved arm, causing isHeldOutBy to misinterpret which arm the unit is in. Fixed by pinning the arm count (split.length) onto the holdout's own Assignment at resolution time (new holdoutArmCount field) and reading it from there instead of the live definition, mirroring the existing precedent in experimentMatches (which compares assignment.trafficSplit against the live value rather than trusting iteration alone).
Wires up Task 6 of the holdouts port: _treatment() and _variableValue() now gate the covered experiment's own exposure on !assignment.suppressed (with an override exception, since Task 4 pins `suppressed` eagerly for both override and non-override paths, unlike java-sdk which only computes it for the non-override path), and always attempt to fire every applicable holdout's own exposure via a new shared _triggerApplicableHoldoutExposures method. Each holdout's own Assignment tracks its own once-only exposed flag, shared across experiments that reference the same holdout. A throwing eventLogger for one holdout does not prevent sibling holdouts from firing; the first error is collected and rethrown after the loop. _peek()/_peekVariable() remain untouched and side-effect-free. Verified against cross-sdk-tests fixtures for scenarios 210, 211, and 213 via throwaway scratch tests (deleted before this commit).
…d missing-variants crash (FT-2206) Addresses three review findings on the holdout exposure firing commit (91ff39a): - Critical: a holdout resolved before its covered experiment's unit type was set never fired its exposure even after the unit later arrived, permanently losing it. Root cause was two-fold: (1) no counterpart to java-sdk's invalidateAssignmentsPinnedWithMissingUnit to evict a cached assignment pinned with a null holdout entry once its unit type is installed, and (2) _unitHash permanently cached a null "unit not set" result, poisoning _getHoldoutAssignment for that unit type even after the unit was later set. Both are now fixed: unit() evicts unexposed assignments whose holdoutAssignments contain a null entry for the unit type just installed, and _unitHash no longer caches negative results. - Important: the covered experiment's own exposure call and the holdout-firing loop now share one "first error wins" outcome (matching java-sdk's triggerExposure), so a throwing eventLogger on the own exposure no longer aborts the holdout loop before it runs. - Important: _init()'s holdout resolution no longer crashes when a holdout definition omits the `variants` key, which is the actual wire shape for most holdout fixtures. Verified against the real cross-sdk-tests fixtures for scenarios 210, 211, 213, and 221 (the last previously failing before this fix) via throwaway scratch tests, deleted before this commit.
…verage (FT-2206)
Adds permanent regression coverage for holdouts (previously verified only via
throwaway scratch tests during Tasks 1-6). Ports 18 scenarios from the
cross-sdk-tests fixture battery (scenarios 203-222) into a new
describe("holdouts", ...) block in context.test.js, following the existing
describe("rules evaluation", ...) pattern: basic suppression, normal
assignment with holdout self-exposure, union-of-two-holdouts semantics,
per-experiment opt-in coverage, dangling holdoutId tolerance, full-on
suppression, override/custom-assignment precedence, shared-holdout exposure
dedup, the full 3-arm holdout battery, the late-unit exposure guarantee
(regression test for the Task 6 C-1 fix), and split-length-derived arity with
no holdoutType field on the wire.
382 -> 400 tests, all green. tsc/lint/format:check all clean.
…s, tighten test assertions (FT-2206) Final whole-branch review fix wave for feat/holdouts, addressing all findings in a single pass: - I-1 (Important): assignmentRules (JS-SDK-only) bypassed holdout suppression in _assign() — a matching rule set assignment.variant/ ruleOverride unconditionally, before the suppressed check, so a held-out unit was silently TREATED with the rule's variant while its exposure-firing gate (which doesn't check ruleOverride) still suppressed its own exposure. Restructured so suppression is checked first, consistent with scenario 211's precedent (custom assignment yields to suppression) - assignment rules are a deterministic per-attribute assignment mechanism, not an override in the scenario 210 sense. ruleKey bookkeeping is kept unconditional to avoid thrashing audienceMatches()'s cache-validity fast path. - I-2 (Important): added regression tests for both of Task 5's bug fixes (commit 716430c), which previously had zero coverage - override fast-path holdout-set revalidation, and same-iteration holdout arm-count pinning. Both verified to fail when their corresponding fix is reverted. - M-3 (Minor): scenario 213 (shared-holdout dedup) now asserts the exact exposures array instead of just a pending() count. - M-4 (Minor): scenario 207 (dangling holdout id) no longer wraps async .then()-internal assertions inside .not.toThrow(), which could let failures escape as unhandled rejections instead of clean failures. 400 -> 403 tests. tsc --noEmit, lint, and format:check all clean. 🤖 Generated with Claude Code Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ssion test The final-review fix wave left two copies of the Test B setup comment, the first an abandoned draft contradicting the corrected copy beneath it. Pure comment cleanup, no behavior change.
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Included review availability: 4 reviews are currently available. Your included PR review attempts over the past 7 days set your current allowance at 5 reviews per hour. WalkthroughContext now supports holdout metadata, live holdout resolution, pinned arm counts, and cached holdout assignments. Assignment resolution applies holdout suppression before rules and allocation. Unit updates invalidate affected unexposed assignments. Treatment and variable exposures emit applicable holdout exposures and preserve the first logger error. Tests verify the published three-arm holdout payload. Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to Holdout suppression and exposure behavior are implemented with override handling preserved, and the reported 403 tests and checks pass. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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1052-1069: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winExtract the shared exposure-trigger block.
Lines 1052-1069 duplicate lines 870-896 of
_treatmentexactly: the same suppression/override gate, the same holdout trigger, and the same first-error propagation. Two copies of this ordering can drift. Extract one private method and call it from both places.♻️ Proposed refactor
+ private _triggerExposures(experimentName: string, assignment: Assignment): void { + let firstError: CaughtError; + + if (!assignment.suppressed || assignment.overridden) { + try { + this._queueExposure(experimentName, assignment); + } catch (error) { + firstError = { value: error }; + } + } + + const holdoutError = this._triggerApplicableHoldoutExposures(assignment); + if (!firstError) { + firstError = holdoutError; + } + + if (firstError) { + throw firstError.value; + } + }Then both
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In `@src/__tests__/context.test.js`:
- Around line 3632-3636: Update the scenario 214 assertions around
context.treatment and context.pending to inspect the pending exposure payload,
asserting that variant 0 of the holdout experiment fired and neither covered
experiment produced an exposure. Match the payload assertion pattern already
used by scenario 213 after finding M-3, while retaining the existing treatment
assertions.
In `@src/context.ts`:
- Around line 1400-1404: Remove the unused holdout variant config parsing in the
holdout initialization flow, including holdoutVariables and the JSON.parse call,
while preserving construction of the holdout Experiment wrapper and assignment
fields used by _getHoldoutAssignment.
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In `@src/context.ts`:
- Around line 1052-1069: Extract the duplicated exposure-trigger and first-error
propagation logic into a private _triggerExposures method accepting
experimentName and assignment. Replace the corresponding blocks in both
_treatment and _variableValue with calls to this method after assignment.exposed
is set, preserving the suppression/override gate, holdout trigger ordering, and
error propagation behavior.
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- Assert the exact exposure payload for scenario 214 (3-arm variant 0), matching the pattern already used by scenario 213 — a bare pending() count doesn't distinguish "the holdout fired" from "the covered experiment fired instead". - Drop the unused JSON.parse of a holdout's variants[].config: no holdout code path reads Experiment.variables for a holdout entry (_getHoldoutAssignment only reads split/seedHi/seedLo/id/iteration), so a malformed config on a holdout previously crashed the whole Context constructor for a field nothing consumes. - Extract the duplicated exposure-trigger/first-error-propagation block shared by _treatment and _variableValue into _triggerExposures, so the suppression/override gate and holdout-firing ordering can't drift between the two call sites.
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Summary
Ports holdout support from java-sdk into javascript-sdk, closing the largest cross-SDK behavioral gap and unblocking 19 previously-skipped cross-sdk-tests scenarios (203-222) for javascript.
ContextData.holdouts,ExperimentData.holdoutIds, and per-assignment holdout state (suppressed,holdouts,holdoutAssignments) — all additive/optional, fully backward compatible with pre-holdout wire payloads.(holdout id, unitType)cache.isHeldOutBy, ported line-for-line from java-sdk) inside_assign(): holdout arm 0 always suppresses a covered experiment; a 3-arm holdout's arm 1 suppresses only non-full-on experiments. An explicitoverride()is the sole exception (verified against scenario 210); suppression otherwise beats custom assignments (scenario 211) and matching assignment rules (found during final review — a JS-SDK-only feature with no java-sdk equivalent, so no per-task review had reason to check the interaction).unit()/setUnit()previously never invalidated a cached assignment whose holdout resolution was pinned asnull(unit not yet available), permanently losing that holdout's exposure once the unit was later supplied (scenario 221).cross-sdk-tests(absmartly/cross-sdk-tests#feat/holdout-wrapper-capability, not yet opened here) adds a behavioral self-test so the javascript wrapper's/capabilitiesendpoint truthfully advertisesholdouts/holdout_arms, mirroring java-wrapper's existing probe.Implemented via subagent-driven development with a fresh implementer per task, task-scoped review after each, and a final whole-branch review — several real bugs were caught and fixed along the way (see commit history for details): a suppressed-experiment cache-invalidation gap, an override-path holdout-set revalidation gap, an arm-count pinning gap, a late-unit exposure-loss bug, and the assignment-rules/suppression interaction above.
Ticket: FT-2206
Test plan
npm test— 403/403 passing (34 suites)npx tsc --noEmit— cleannpm run lint— cleannpx prettier --check— clean./run-tests.sh --sdk javascript,java) — not run as part of this PR; recommend running before merge to confirm no cross-SDK disagreementsSummary by CodeRabbit
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