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id: toggle_variants
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title: Feature Toggle Variants
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---
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> This feature was introduced in _Unleash v3.2.0_.
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Do you want to facilitate more advanced experimentations? Do you want to use Unleash to handle your A/B experiments? Say hello to feature toggle variants!
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You can now extend feature toggles with multiple variants. This feature enables you to extend a feature toggle to divide your traffic among a set of variants.
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#### How does it work?
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Unleash will first use activation strategies to decide whether a feature toggle is considered enabled or disabled for the current user.
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If the toggle is considered **enabled**, the Unleash client will select the correct variant for the request. Unleash clients will use values from the Unleash context to make the allocation predictable. `UserId` is the preferred value, then `sessionId` and `remoteAdr`. If no context data is provided, the traffic will be spread randomly for each request.
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If the toggle is considered **disabled** you will get the built-in `disabled` variant.
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A json representation of the empty variant will be the following:
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```json
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{
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"name": "disabled",
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"enabled": false
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}
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```
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The actual representation of the built-in the client SDK will vary slightly, to honor best practices in various languages.
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> If you change the number of variants, it will affect variant allocations. This means that some of the users will be moved to the next variant.
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_Java SDK example:_
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```java
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Variant variant = unleash.getVariant("toggle.name", unleashContext);
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System.out.println(variant.getName());
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```
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#### Client SDK Support
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To make use of toggle variants, you need to use a compatible client. Client SDK with variant support:
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- [unleash-client-node](https://github.com/Unleash/unleash-client-node) (from v3.2.0)
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- [unleash-client-java](https://github.com/Unleash/unleash-client-java) (from v3.2.0)
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- [unleash-client-ruby](https://github.com/Unleash/unleash-client-ruby) (from v0.1.6)
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- [unleash-client-python](https://github.com/Unleash/unleash-client-python) (from v3.3.0)
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- [unleash-client-dotnet](https://github.com/Unleash/unleash-client-dotnet) (from v1.3.6)
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- [unleash-client-go](https://github.com/Unleash/unleash-client-dotnet) (from v3 branch)
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If you would like to give feedback on this feature, experience issues or have questions, please feel free to open an issue on [GitHub](https://github.com/Unleash/unleash/).
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