Frequently Asked Questions

Date of slack thread: 7/25/24

Anonymous: Wanted to check before I build too much outside of the SDK, but is there a way in the golang SDK to get the metadata of a gate given just the gate name? I noticed we have this, and the most similar thing is GetGate, but I don’t see anything that returns a list of rules or the status.

Tore (Statsig): What do you need the rules/statuses for?

Anonymous: We ran into an issue where we were checking certain gates way too many times, especially as we tested a feature internally before going live with it, so we added some internal caching on our side. This helps us manage that a bit better.

Anonymous: But yeah, it seems like I’m gonna have to manually build this out?

Tore (Statsig): Interesting use case. So basically you want to memoize the check results until the definition changes, is that right? For now, yes, you’ll have to build it out. One thing you could do instead of using the console API is use the data adapter pattern (which saves/gets the full project spec). You could memoize just on the time field of that as a start, that will update when anything in the project changes (likely infrequent enough). But then if you want to go deeper, you could memoize on the individual configurations.

Anonymous: Yeah, pretty much. Are there any plans to add this to the SDK?

Tore (Statsig): Not at the moment. We’re discussing if the getGate API should include this type of information, or just a version you could cache on but nothing immediate.

Anonymous: Could you confirm that the API is working? I just tried through the console and got errors.

Anonymous: I’m certain I’m using the correct API key as well.

Anonymous: Hmm, maybe not actually. Let me check again.

Anonymous: Okay yeah - it seems that I am using the correct API key but it’s not working.

Anonymous: Might’ve just been the console or an adblocker. What are the rate limits for the console API?