allow clients to provide decision_id

docs/content/rest-api.md

@@ -1049,6 +1049,7 @@ The request body contains an object that specifies a value for [The input Docume
 - **metrics** - Return query performance metrics in addition to result. See [Performance Metrics](#performance-metrics) for more detail.
 - **instrument** - Instrument query evaluation and return a superset of performance metrics in addition to result. See [Performance Metrics](#performance-metrics) for more detail.
 - **watch** - Set a watch on the data reference if the parameter is present. See [Watches](#watches) for more detail.
+- **decision_id** - Client supplied decision ID to use for tracing. If not specified a random ID is generated automatically.
 
 #### Status Codes
 

server/server.go

@@ -1124,6 +1124,7 @@ func (s *Server) v1DataPost(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	includeInstrumentation := getBoolParam(r.URL, types.ParamInstrumentV1, true)
 	partial := getBoolParam(r.URL, types.ParamPartialV1, true)
 	provenance := getBoolParam(r.URL, types.ParamProvenanceV1, true)
+	decisionID = getStringParam(r.URL, types.ParamDecisionIDV1, decisionID)
 
 	m.Timer(metrics.RegoQueryParse).Start()
 
@@ -2083,6 +2084,14 @@ func validateParsedQuery(body ast.Body) ([]string, error) {
 	return unsafeOperators, nil
 }
 
+func getStringParam(url *url.URL, name string, ifEmpty string) string {
+
+	if p := url.Query().Get(name); p != "" {
+		return p
+	}
+	return ifEmpty
+}
+
 func getBoolParam(url *url.URL, name string, ifEmpty bool) bool {
 
 	p, ok := url.Query()[name]

server/server_test.go

@@ -2460,6 +2460,39 @@ func TestDecisionIDs(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestUserProvidedDecisionIDs(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newFixture(t)
+	f.server = f.server.WithDiagnosticsBuffer(NewBoundedBuffer(4))
+	decisionID := 6
+
+	enableDiagnostics := `
+		package system.diagnostics
+
+		config = {"mode": "on"}
+	`
+
+	if err := f.v1("PUT", "/policies/test", enableDiagnostics, 200, "{}"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	if err := f.v1("POST", "/data?decision_id=6", "", 200, `{"decision_id": "6", "result": {}}`); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	infos := []*Info{}
+
+	f.server.diagnostics.Iter(func(info *Info) {
+		if info.DecisionID != fmt.Sprint(decisionID) {
+			t.Fatalf("Expected decision ID to be %v but got: %v", decisionID, info.DecisionID)
+		}
+		infos = append(infos, info)
+	})
+
+	if len(infos) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("Expected exactly 1 elements but got: %v", len(infos))
+	}
+}
+
 func TestDecisionLogging(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newFixture(t)
 

server/types/types.go

@@ -438,6 +438,10 @@ const (
 	// indicates the client wants to include bundle activation in the results
 	// of the health API.
 	ParamBundleActivationV1 = "bundle"
+
+	// ParamDecisionIDV1 defines the name of the HTTP URL parameter that
+	// the client provided the decision id
+	ParamDecisionIDV1 = "decision_id"
 )
 
 // BadRequestErr represents an error condition raised if the caller passes