a2a_protocol_client/error/mod.rs
1// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
2// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
3//
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5
6//! Client error types.
7//!
8//! [`ClientError`] is the top-level error type for all A2A client operations.
9//! Use [`ClientResult`] as the return type alias.
10
11use std::fmt;
12
13use a2a_protocol_types::{A2aError, TaskId};
14
15// ── ClientError ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
16
17/// Errors that can occur during A2A client operations.
18#[derive(Debug)]
19#[non_exhaustive]
20pub enum ClientError {
21 /// A transport-level HTTP error from hyper.
22 Http(hyper::Error),
23
24 /// An HTTP-level error from the hyper-util client (connection, redirect, etc.).
25 HttpClient(String),
26
27 /// JSON serialization or deserialization error.
28 Serialization(serde_json::Error),
29
30 /// A protocol-level A2A error returned by the server.
31 Protocol(A2aError),
32
33 /// A transport configuration or connection error.
34 Transport(String),
35
36 /// The agent endpoint URL is invalid or could not be resolved.
37 InvalidEndpoint(String),
38
39 /// The server returned an unexpected HTTP status code.
40 UnexpectedStatus {
41 /// The HTTP status code received.
42 status: u16,
43 /// The response body (truncated if large).
44 body: String,
45 /// Server-requested retry delay parsed from a `Retry-After` header
46 /// (delta-seconds), when present on a `429`/`503`. The retry layer
47 /// honors this in preference to its own computed backoff so the client
48 /// does not hammer a server that explicitly asked it to wait.
49 retry_after: Option<std::time::Duration>,
50 },
51
52 /// The agent requires authentication for this task.
53 AuthRequired {
54 /// The ID of the task requiring authentication.
55 task_id: TaskId,
56 },
57
58 /// A request or stream connection timed out.
59 Timeout(String),
60
61 /// The connection already has `limit` requests awaiting responses, and
62 /// this one was refused up front rather than queued. Retryable: room
63 /// appears as responses arrive. See
64 /// `WebSocketTransportConfig::max_pending_requests`.
65 TooManyPendingRequests {
66 /// The configured cap that was hit.
67 limit: usize,
68 },
69
70 /// A stream ended before the event that finishes it.
71 ///
72 /// A stream finishes cleanly on a `Message`, or on a `Task` or status
73 /// update whose state is terminal (`completed`, `failed`, `canceled`,
74 /// `rejected`) or interrupted (`input-required`, `auth-required`) — the
75 /// states at which the specification says the server closes it (§3.1.2,
76 /// §11.7). A body that ends, or a connection that closes, anywhere else
77 /// is this error rather than a quiet `None`: the task is very likely still
78 /// running, and the consumer is missing the rest of it.
79 ///
80 /// Retryable in the sense that matters for a stream: resubscribe with
81 /// [`A2aClient::subscribe_to_task_from`](crate::A2aClient::subscribe_to_task_from),
82 /// passing `last_event_id`, and a server that keeps an event log replays
83 /// what was missed.
84 IncompleteStream {
85 /// The last SSE `id:` received before the stream ended — the value to
86 /// resume from. `None` when the server sent none: gRPC and WebSocket
87 /// streams carry no ids, and neither does a server without resumption.
88 last_event_id: Option<String>,
89 /// What was missing, for the message.
90 detail: String,
91 },
92
93 /// The server appears to use a different protocol binding than the client.
94 ///
95 /// For example, a JSON-RPC client connected to a REST-only server (or
96 /// vice-versa). Check the agent card's `supported_interfaces` to select
97 /// the correct protocol binding.
98 ProtocolBindingMismatch(String),
99}
100
101impl fmt::Display for ClientError {
102 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
103 match self {
104 Self::Http(e) => write!(f, "HTTP error: {e}"),
105 Self::HttpClient(msg) => write!(f, "HTTP client error: {msg}"),
106 Self::Serialization(e) => write!(f, "serialization error: {e}"),
107 Self::Protocol(e) => write!(f, "protocol error: {e}"),
108 Self::Transport(msg) => write!(f, "transport error: {msg}"),
109 Self::InvalidEndpoint(msg) => write!(f, "invalid endpoint: {msg}"),
110 Self::UnexpectedStatus { status, body, .. } => {
111 write!(f, "unexpected HTTP status {status}: {body}")
112 }
113 Self::AuthRequired { task_id } => {
114 write!(f, "authentication required for task: {task_id}")
115 }
116 Self::Timeout(msg) => write!(f, "timeout: {msg}"),
117 Self::TooManyPendingRequests { limit } => {
118 write!(
119 f,
120 "too many pending requests on this connection (limit {limit})"
121 )
122 }
123 Self::IncompleteStream { detail, .. } => {
124 write!(f, "stream ended before its final event: {detail}")
125 }
126 Self::ProtocolBindingMismatch(msg) => {
127 write!(
128 f,
129 "protocol binding mismatch: {msg}; check the agent card's supported_interfaces"
130 )
131 }
132 }
133 }
134}
135
136impl std::error::Error for ClientError {
137 fn source(&self) -> Option<&(dyn std::error::Error + 'static)> {
138 match self {
139 Self::Http(e) => Some(e),
140 Self::Serialization(e) => Some(e),
141 Self::Protocol(e) => Some(e),
142 _ => None,
143 }
144 }
145}
146
147impl ClientError {
148 /// Server-requested retry delay, if this error carries one (a `Retry-After`
149 /// header on a `429`/`503`). The retry layer prefers this over its computed
150 /// backoff.
151 #[must_use]
152 pub const fn retry_after(&self) -> Option<std::time::Duration> {
153 match self {
154 Self::UnexpectedStatus { retry_after, .. } => *retry_after,
155 _ => None,
156 }
157 }
158
159 /// Returns `true` when this is the consumer-lag signal on a streaming
160 /// subscription: the reader fell too far behind the agent, and the stream
161 /// was cut off, rather than the task failing.
162 ///
163 /// **The stream ends here; the task does not.** This SDK's server writes
164 /// one lag error frame when a reader overruns its event queue and then
165 /// closes the stream, and the WebSocket transport ends a stream the same
166 /// way once 64 frames are waiting unread (audit N29). What was read is a
167 /// contiguous prefix. To continue, resubscribe: over SSE with
168 /// [`subscribe_to_task_from`](crate::A2aClient::subscribe_to_task_from)
169 /// and the stream's last event id, which replays what was missed.
170 ///
171 /// ```no_run
172 /// # async fn demo(stream: &mut a2a_protocol_client::streaming::EventStream) {
173 /// while let Some(event) = stream.next().await {
174 /// match event {
175 /// Ok(ev) => { /* handle */ }
176 /// // Not a task failure: the stream was cut off. Resubscribe.
177 /// Err(e) if e.is_stream_lagged() => {
178 /// eprintln!("stream cut off after {:?} dropped events", e.dropped_event_count());
179 /// break;
180 /// }
181 /// Err(e) => break, // a real failure
182 /// }
183 /// }
184 /// # }
185 /// ```
186 #[must_use]
187 pub fn is_stream_lagged(&self) -> bool {
188 matches!(self, Self::Protocol(e) if e.is_stream_lagged())
189 }
190
191 /// Number of events the server dropped, when this is a consumer-lag
192 /// signal (see [`ClientError::is_stream_lagged`]); `None` otherwise.
193 #[must_use]
194 pub fn dropped_event_count(&self) -> Option<u64> {
195 match self {
196 Self::Protocol(e) => e.dropped_event_count(),
197 _ => None,
198 }
199 }
200}
201
202/// Parses a `Retry-After` header value into a delay.
203///
204/// Supports the delta-seconds form (`Retry-After: 120`). The HTTP-date form is
205/// not parsed (it would require a date-parsing dependency); such headers yield
206/// `None` and the client falls back to its computed backoff.
207#[must_use]
208pub(crate) fn parse_retry_after(headers: &hyper::HeaderMap) -> Option<std::time::Duration> {
209 let raw = headers.get(hyper::header::RETRY_AFTER)?.to_str().ok()?;
210 let secs: u64 = raw.trim().parse().ok()?;
211 // Clamp to a sane ceiling so a hostile/misconfigured header can't park a
212 // retry for an absurd duration.
213 Some(std::time::Duration::from_secs(secs.min(3600)))
214}
215
216impl From<A2aError> for ClientError {
217 fn from(e: A2aError) -> Self {
218 Self::Protocol(e)
219 }
220}
221
222/// Lets an executor that delegates to another agent use `?` on client calls.
223///
224/// An `AgentExecutor` returns `A2aResult`, so without this every delegated
225/// call had to be flattened to a string, losing whether it was worth
226/// retrying. The conversion keeps what the server needs to classify the
227/// failed task (see `a2a_protocol_types::failure::error_class`):
228///
229/// | `ClientError` | `A2aError` code | Failure class |
230/// |---|---|---|
231/// | `Protocol(e)` | `e.code`, with `e.message` and `e.data` unchanged | from the code |
232/// | anything [`is_retryable`](ClientError::is_retryable) — timeouts, connection failures, `429`/`502`/`503`/`504`, `TooManyPendingRequests` | `InternalError` | `Transient` |
233/// | `Serialization` (the peer sent something unreadable) | `InvalidAgentResponse` | `Internal` |
234/// | everything else (bad endpoint, binding mismatch, other statuses, auth required) | `InternalError` | `Internal` |
235///
236/// "Transient exactly when the client would retry" is deliberate: the
237/// client's retry policy and the caller's are then the same judgement.
238/// The class rides in `data` under the failure key; the server never sends
239/// `data` to its caller as-is, so it does not leak. The message is
240/// `downstream A2A call failed: ` followed by this error's text and its
241/// source chain, so nothing the client knew is lost.
242///
243/// ```no_run
244/// use a2a_protocol_client::ClientBuilder;
245/// use a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult;
246/// use a2a_protocol_types::params::TaskQueryParams;
247///
248/// // The shape of an `AgentExecutor::execute` body that delegates.
249/// async fn delegate(downstream: &str, task_id: &str) -> A2aResult<String> {
250/// let client = ClientBuilder::new(downstream).build()?;
251/// let task = client
252/// .get_task(TaskQueryParams {
253/// tenant: None,
254/// id: task_id.to_owned(),
255/// history_length: None,
256/// })
257/// .await?; // a timeout here fails the task as `Transient`
258/// Ok(task.text().unwrap_or_default().to_owned())
259/// }
260/// ```
261impl From<ClientError> for A2aError {
262 fn from(e: ClientError) -> Self {
263 use a2a_protocol_types::error::ErrorCode;
264 use a2a_protocol_types::failure::{FailureClass, set_error_class};
265
266 let class = if e.is_retryable() {
267 FailureClass::Transient
268 } else {
269 FailureClass::Internal
270 };
271 let code = match e {
272 ClientError::Protocol(inner) => return inner,
273 ClientError::Serialization(_) => ErrorCode::InvalidAgentResponse,
274 _ => ErrorCode::InternalError,
275 };
276 let mut out = Self::new(code, format!("downstream A2A call failed: {}", chain(&e)));
277 set_error_class(&mut out, class);
278 out
279 }
280}
281
282/// An error's text followed by each cause the text does not already contain.
283fn chain(e: &dyn std::error::Error) -> String {
284 let mut text = e.to_string();
285 let mut cause = e.source();
286 while let Some(c) = cause {
287 let s = c.to_string();
288 if !text.contains(&s) {
289 text.push_str(": ");
290 text.push_str(&s);
291 }
292 cause = c.source();
293 }
294 text
295}
296
297impl From<hyper::Error> for ClientError {
298 fn from(e: hyper::Error) -> Self {
299 Self::Http(e)
300 }
301}
302
303impl From<serde_json::Error> for ClientError {
304 fn from(e: serde_json::Error) -> Self {
305 Self::Serialization(e)
306 }
307}
308
309// ── ClientResult ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
310
311/// Convenience type alias: `Result<T, ClientError>`.
312pub type ClientResult<T> = Result<T, ClientError>;
313
314// ── Tests ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
315
316#[cfg(test)]
317mod chain_tests;
318#[cfg(test)]
319mod tests;