Correlated Isolation (Spaces)

A space partitions one imposter’s stubs and state by a correlation id (the flow id), so parallel test runs sharing a port don’t see each other’s stubs, scenario state, or recorded requests.

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How a request’s flow id is resolved

_rift.flowState.flowIdSource decides which flow (space) a request belongs to:

flowIdSource	Resolution
"imposter_port" (default)	The imposter port — one shared space.
"header:X-Mock-Space"	The value of that request header (case-insensitive); falls back to the port if the header is absent.

A stub’s optional space field scopes it to one flow id. Stubs without a space are global and match any caller. Space-scoped stubs are considered only when the request’s resolved flow id equals their space.

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Example — one port, isolated tenants

{
  "port": 4510,
  "protocol": "http",
  "recordRequests": true,
  "_rift": {
    "flowState": {
      "backend": "inmemory",
      "ttlSeconds": 300,
      "flowIdSource": "header:X-Mock-Space"
    }
  },
  "stubs": [
    {
      "space": "alice",
      "predicates": [{ "equals": { "path": "/data" } }],
      "responses": [{ "is": { "statusCode": 200, "body": { "owner": "alice" } } }]
    },
    {
      "space": "bob",
      "predicates": [{ "equals": { "path": "/data" } }],
      "responses": [{ "is": { "statusCode": 200, "body": { "owner": "bob" } } }]
    },
    {
      "predicates": [{ "equals": { "path": "/health" } }],
      "responses": [{ "is": { "statusCode": 200, "body": "OK" } }]
    }
  ]
}

curl -H 'X-Mock-Space: alice' http://localhost:4510/data   # {"owner":"alice"}
curl -H 'X-Mock-Space: bob'   http://localhost:4510/data   # {"owner":"bob"}
curl http://localhost:4510/health                          # OK  (global stub)

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Recorded requests, scoped to a space

With recordRequests: true, GET /imposters/{port}/savedRequests accepts a match=flow_id=<value> query parameter (see the API Reference) to read or clear only one space’s requests, leaving other spaces and the imposter itself untouched:

# Read only alice's recorded requests
curl 'http://localhost:2525/imposters/4510/savedRequests?match=flow_id=alice'

# Clear only alice's recorded requests (bob's and the port's own are unaffected)
curl -X DELETE 'http://localhost:2525/imposters/4510/savedRequests?match=flow_id=alice'

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Managing spaces at runtime

Instead of declaring space inline, you can add stubs to a space through the admin API and tear the whole space down in one call (its scoped stubs, recorded requests, and scenario state):

curl -X POST http://localhost:2525/imposters/4510/spaces/alice/stubs \
  -d '{"predicates":[{"equals":{"path":"/data"}}],"responses":[{"is":{"statusCode":200,"body":"scoped"}}]}'

curl http://localhost:2525/imposters/4510/spaces/alice        # inspect the space
curl -X DELETE http://localhost:2525/imposters/4510/spaces/alice   # teardown

Spaces are addressed by a known flow id — there is no bare GET /imposters/{port}/spaces route to list or discover which spaces currently exist under an imposter. If you need an inventory of active flow ids, track them on the caller side (or derive them from recorded requests / stub space fields); the admin API only ever answers “what does this flow id look like.”

Spaces build on the same store as Flow State and Scenarios, which are likewise partitioned by flow id.

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Embedding over the C-ABI

Everything above is also reachable with zero loopback HTTP from an embedded Rift: the FFI exposes rift_space_add_stub, rift_space_list_stubs, rift_space_delete, and rift_space_recorded, each mirroring the corresponding admin-HTTP handler exactly. See FFI (C-ABI) for signatures and ownership rules.