a2a_protocol_client/

trace_propagation.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! Propagating W3C trace context on outbound calls.
//!
//! [`TracePropagationInterceptor`] writes `traceparent` (and `tracestate`,
//! when there is one) onto every request the client sends, taking the value
//! from an ambient [`CurrentTrace`] scope. That indirection is the point: a
//! client is usually built once and reused for many delegated calls, so a
//! trace fixed at construction would label every one of them with the first
//! request's trace.
//!
//! # From inside an executor
//!
//! ```rust,ignore
//! // `ctx` is the `RequestContext` the server handed the executor. Its
//! // trace context already names *this* hop's span, so sending it verbatim
//! // makes the callee a child of this agent.
//! let Some(trace) = ctx.trace_context().cloned() else {
//!     return delegate(&client, params).await; // caller was not tracing
//! };
//! CurrentTrace::scope(trace, delegate(&client, params)).await
//! ```
//!
//! # Starting one
//!
//! A chain has to begin somewhere. An agent that is the first hop — nothing
//! upstream sent it a `traceparent` — can start a trace with
//! [`CurrentTrace::start_root`] so that every agent below it reports the same
//! trace id.
//!
//! This is propagation, not tracing. Nothing here records a span, measures a
//! duration or exports anything; it carries the one identifier that lets
//! whatever *does* record spans stitch the hops together, including across
//! the Python, JavaScript, Go and Java agents the ITK already runs against.

use a2a_protocol_types::trace_context::{
    FLAG_SAMPLED, TRACEPARENT_HEADER, TRACESTATE_HEADER, TraceContext,
};

use crate::error::ClientResult;
use crate::interceptor::{CallInterceptor, ClientRequest, ClientResponse};

tokio::task_local! {
    static CURRENT_TRACE: TraceContext;
}

/// The trace the current task is running under.
///
/// A `tokio::task_local`, the same mechanism the server uses for the tenant —
/// and with the same caveat: a bare `tokio::spawn` does not inherit it, so a
/// delegation that spawns must re-enter the scope inside the spawned task.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
pub struct CurrentTrace;

impl CurrentTrace {
    /// Runs `f` with `trace` as the ambient context.
    pub async fn scope<F, R>(trace: TraceContext, f: F) -> R
    where
        F: Future<Output = R>,
    {
        CURRENT_TRACE.scope(trace, f).await
    }

    /// The ambient trace, if any scope is open.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn current() -> Option<TraceContext> {
        CURRENT_TRACE.try_with(Clone::clone).ok()
    }

    /// Starts a new trace, for an agent that is the first hop in a chain.
    ///
    /// Sampled, deliberately. An unsampled root is dropped by most
    /// collectors, which would make the whole chain invisible — and an agent
    /// that goes to the trouble of starting a trace means it to be recorded.
    /// A caller wanting the other answer builds one with
    /// [`TraceContext::from_bytes`].
    ///
    /// # Panics
    ///
    /// Never, and structurally rather than improbably.
    /// [`TraceContext::from_bytes`] rejects exactly one input — an all-zero
    /// identifier — and a v4 UUID cannot produce one: byte 6 carries the
    /// version nibble in its high half, so it is always in `0x40..=0x4f` and
    /// never `0x00`. Both the 16-byte trace id and the 8-byte span id, which
    /// is `bytes[..8]`, therefore contain that byte. This is a property of
    /// RFC 9562 §5.4, not a probability argument.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn start_root() -> TraceContext {
        let trace_id = *uuid::Uuid::new_v4().as_bytes();
        let mut span_id = [0_u8; 8];
        span_id.copy_from_slice(&uuid::Uuid::new_v4().as_bytes()[..8]);
        TraceContext::from_bytes(trace_id, span_id, FLAG_SAMPLED)
            .expect("v4 UUID bytes are not all zero")
    }
}

/// Writes the ambient [`CurrentTrace`] onto each outbound request.
///
/// With no scope open it adds nothing, so a client used outside a traced
/// call is unaffected. It never overwrites a `traceparent` a caller set on
/// the request itself — an explicit header is a decision, and silently
/// replacing it would move the callee into a different trace than the one
/// its caller asked for.
///
/// That guard is **case-insensitive**, because the header name is.
/// W3C Trace Context §3.2.1 and §3.3.1 both say: *"Vendors MUST expect the
/// header name in any case (upper, lower, mixed), and SHOULD send the header
/// name in lowercase."* A case-sensitive lookup against the lowercase literal
/// would miss a caller's `Traceparent` and write a second one, and both HTTP
/// transports build the request with `hyper::Request::builder().header(..)`,
/// which **appends** rather than replaces — so the peer would receive two
/// `traceparent` fields and pick whichever its own parser happened to.
///
/// One transport is outside its reach, and says so in its own module docs:
/// `WebSocketTransport` (behind the `websocket` feature) cannot carry a
/// per-request header at all, so nothing this interceptor writes reaches the
/// wire on an established WebSocket connection.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Default)]
pub struct TracePropagationInterceptor;

/// True when `headers` already carries `name` under any spelling of its case.
fn contains_header_ignoring_case(
    headers: &std::collections::HashMap<String, String>,
    name: &str,
) -> bool {
    headers.keys().any(|k| k.eq_ignore_ascii_case(name))
}

impl TracePropagationInterceptor {
    /// Creates the interceptor.
    #[must_use]
    pub const fn new() -> Self {
        Self
    }
}

impl CallInterceptor for TracePropagationInterceptor {
    // Matching every other `CallInterceptor` impl in this crate: the trait
    // declares RPITIT with an explicit `Send` bound, which `async fn` here
    // would not restate.
    #[allow(clippy::manual_async_fn)]
    fn before<'a>(
        &'a self,
        req: &'a mut ClientRequest,
    ) -> impl Future<Output = ClientResult<()>> + Send + 'a {
        async move {
            if contains_header_ignoring_case(&req.extra_headers, TRACEPARENT_HEADER) {
                return Ok(());
            }
            if let Some(trace) = CurrentTrace::current() {
                req.extra_headers
                    .insert(TRACEPARENT_HEADER.to_owned(), trace.traceparent());
                // The same guard for `tracestate`: a caller that set only
                // `Tracestate` would otherwise get two of those instead.
                if let Some(state) = trace.tracestate()
                    && !contains_header_ignoring_case(&req.extra_headers, TRACESTATE_HEADER)
                {
                    req.extra_headers
                        .insert(TRACESTATE_HEADER.to_owned(), state.to_owned());
                }
            }
            Ok(())
        }
    }

    // Matching every other `CallInterceptor` impl in this crate: the trait
    // declares RPITIT with an explicit `Send` bound, which `async fn` here
    // would not restate.
    #[allow(clippy::manual_async_fn)]
    fn after<'a>(
        &'a self,
        _resp: &'a ClientResponse,
    ) -> impl Future<Output = ClientResult<()>> + Send + 'a {
        async { Ok(()) }
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests;