a2a_protocol_server/serve/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//! Server startup helpers.
7//!
8//! Reduces the ~25 lines of hyper boilerplate typically needed to start an
9//! A2A HTTP server down to a single function call.
10//!
11//! # Example
12//!
13//! ```rust,no_run
14//! use std::sync::Arc;
15//! use a2a_protocol_server::serve::serve;
16//! use a2a_protocol_server::dispatch::JsonRpcDispatcher;
17//! use a2a_protocol_server::RequestHandlerBuilder;
18//! # struct MyExecutor;
19//! # impl a2a_protocol_server::executor::AgentExecutor for MyExecutor {
20//! # fn execute<'a>(&'a self, _ctx: &'a a2a_protocol_server::request_context::RequestContext,
21//! # _queue: &'a dyn a2a_protocol_server::streaming::EventQueueWriter,
22//! # ) -> std::pin::Pin<Box<dyn std::future::Future<Output = a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
23//! # Box::pin(async { Ok(()) })
24//! # }
25//! # }
26//!
27//! # async fn example() -> std::io::Result<()> {
28//! let handler = Arc::new(
29//! RequestHandlerBuilder::new(MyExecutor)
30//! .build()
31//! .expect("build handler"),
32//! );
33//!
34//! let dispatcher = JsonRpcDispatcher::new(handler);
35//! serve("127.0.0.1:3000", dispatcher).await?;
36//! # Ok(())
37//! # }
38//! ```
39
40use std::convert::Infallible;
41use std::future::Future;
42use std::net::SocketAddr;
43use std::pin::Pin;
44use std::sync::Arc;
45
46use bytes::Bytes;
47use http_body_util::combinators::BoxBody;
48use hyper::body::Incoming;
49
50mod graceful;
51
52pub use graceful::{
53 ServeConfig, ServeReport, Server, DEFAULT_DRAIN_TIMEOUT, DEFAULT_HEADER_READ_TIMEOUT,
54 DEFAULT_IDLE_TIMEOUT,
55};
56
57// ── Types ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
58
59/// The HTTP response type returned by dispatchers.
60pub type DispatchResponse = hyper::Response<BoxBody<Bytes, Infallible>>;
61
62// ── Dispatcher trait ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
63
64/// Trait for types that can dispatch HTTP requests to an A2A handler.
65///
66/// Implemented by both [`JsonRpcDispatcher`](crate::JsonRpcDispatcher) and
67/// [`RestDispatcher`](crate::RestDispatcher).
68pub trait Dispatcher: Send + Sync + 'static {
69 /// Dispatches an HTTP request and returns a response.
70 fn dispatch(
71 &self,
72 req: hyper::Request<Incoming>,
73 ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = DispatchResponse> + Send + '_>>;
74}
75
76// ── serve ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
77
78/// Starts an HTTP server that dispatches requests using the given dispatcher.
79///
80/// Binds a TCP listener on `addr`, accepts connections, and serves each one
81/// using a hyper auto-connection builder. This eliminates the ~25 lines of
82/// boilerplate that every A2A agent otherwise needs.
83///
84/// Each connection is served in a separate Tokio task.
85///
86/// Once the listener is bound this function does not return. `accept()`
87/// failures are transient by nature (a per-connection abort, or a momentarily
88/// full descriptor table), so the loop logs them and retries — backing off
89/// briefly on descriptor exhaustion — rather than tearing the server down.
90/// Callers wanting shutdown should race this future against their own signal
91/// (`tokio::select!`) instead of waiting for it to resolve.
92///
93/// # Errors
94///
95/// Returns [`std::io::Error`] if the TCP listener fails to bind. This is the
96/// only way the returned future completes.
97///
98/// # Example
99///
100/// ```rust,no_run
101/// use std::sync::Arc;
102/// use a2a_protocol_server::serve::serve;
103/// use a2a_protocol_server::dispatch::JsonRpcDispatcher;
104/// use a2a_protocol_server::RequestHandlerBuilder;
105/// # struct MyExecutor;
106/// # impl a2a_protocol_server::executor::AgentExecutor for MyExecutor {
107/// # fn execute<'a>(&'a self, _ctx: &'a a2a_protocol_server::request_context::RequestContext,
108/// # _queue: &'a dyn a2a_protocol_server::streaming::EventQueueWriter,
109/// # ) -> std::pin::Pin<Box<dyn std::future::Future<Output = a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
110/// # Box::pin(async { Ok(()) })
111/// # }
112/// # }
113///
114/// # async fn example() -> std::io::Result<()> {
115/// let handler = Arc::new(
116/// RequestHandlerBuilder::new(MyExecutor)
117/// .build()
118/// .expect("build handler"),
119/// );
120///
121/// let dispatcher = JsonRpcDispatcher::new(handler);
122/// serve("127.0.0.1:3000", dispatcher).await?;
123/// # Ok(())
124/// # }
125/// ```
126pub async fn serve(
127 addr: impl tokio::net::ToSocketAddrs,
128 dispatcher: impl Dispatcher,
129) -> std::io::Result<()> {
130 let dispatcher = Arc::new(dispatcher);
131 let listener = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind(addr).await?;
132
133 trace_info!(
134 addr = %listener.local_addr().unwrap_or_else(|_| SocketAddr::from(([0, 0, 0, 0], 0))),
135 "A2A server listening"
136 );
137
138 loop {
139 let (stream, _peer) = match listener.accept().await {
140 Ok(pair) => pair,
141 Err(e) => {
142 // A transient accept() error (per-connection abort, or fd-table
143 // exhaustion) must not tear down the whole server. Log, back off
144 // if the fd table is full so we don't busy-spin, and keep going.
145 trace_warn!(error = %e, "accept() failed; retrying");
146 pause_after_accept_error(&e).await;
147 continue;
148 }
149 };
150 // Disable Nagle's algorithm to avoid ~40ms delayed-ACK latency on
151 // small SSE frames and JSON-RPC responses.
152 let _ = stream.set_nodelay(true);
153 let io = hyper_util::rt::TokioIo::new(stream);
154 let dispatcher = Arc::clone(&dispatcher);
155
156 tokio::spawn(async move {
157 let service = hyper::service::service_fn(move |req| {
158 let d = Arc::clone(&dispatcher);
159 async move { Ok::<_, Infallible>(d.dispatch(req).await) }
160 });
161 let _ =
162 hyper_util::server::conn::auto::Builder::new(hyper_util::rt::TokioExecutor::new())
163 .serve_connection(io, service)
164 .await;
165 });
166 }
167}
168
169/// Starts an HTTP server and returns the bound [`SocketAddr`].
170///
171/// Like [`serve`], but binds before entering the accept loop and returns the
172/// actual address (useful when binding to port `0` for tests).
173///
174/// # Errors
175///
176/// Returns [`std::io::Error`] if the TCP listener fails to bind.
177pub async fn serve_with_addr(
178 addr: impl tokio::net::ToSocketAddrs,
179 dispatcher: impl Dispatcher,
180) -> std::io::Result<SocketAddr> {
181 let dispatcher = Arc::new(dispatcher);
182 let listener = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind(addr).await?;
183 let local_addr = listener.local_addr()?;
184
185 trace_info!(%local_addr, "A2A server listening");
186
187 tokio::spawn(async move {
188 loop {
189 let (stream, _peer) = match listener.accept().await {
190 Ok(pair) => pair,
191 Err(e) => {
192 // Never let a transient accept() error kill the loop.
193 trace_warn!(error = %e, "accept() failed; retrying");
194 pause_after_accept_error(&e).await;
195 continue;
196 }
197 };
198 let _ = stream.set_nodelay(true);
199 let io = hyper_util::rt::TokioIo::new(stream);
200 let dispatcher = Arc::clone(&dispatcher);
201
202 tokio::spawn(async move {
203 let service = hyper::service::service_fn(move |req| {
204 let d = Arc::clone(&dispatcher);
205 async move { Ok::<_, Infallible>(d.dispatch(req).await) }
206 });
207 let _ = hyper_util::server::conn::auto::Builder::new(
208 hyper_util::rt::TokioExecutor::new(),
209 )
210 .serve_connection(io, service)
211 .await;
212 });
213 }
214 });
215
216 Ok(local_addr)
217}
218
219/// Backoff to apply before retrying after a [`tokio::net::TcpListener::accept`]
220/// error.
221///
222/// `accept()` failures on an already-bound listener are effectively always
223/// transient: a per-connection abort (`ECONNABORTED`) or file-descriptor
224/// exhaustion (`EMFILE`/`ENFILE`). The accept loop must therefore never
225/// terminate on them — doing so would take the whole server down for the life
226/// of the process the first time the fd table momentarily fills. For fd
227/// exhaustion we pause briefly so we don't busy-spin while the table is full;
228/// other errors retry immediately.
229/// Pauses after a failed `accept()`, for as long as the error warrants.
230///
231/// Split out of the two accept loops rather than inlined in both, because the
232/// decision it makes — pause on fd exhaustion, retry immediately otherwise —
233/// is only observable as elapsed time. Inline, the `!` in
234/// `if !backoff.is_zero()` could be deleted in either loop and nothing would
235/// notice: `sleep(ZERO)` is a no-op, so the mutation's entire effect is to
236/// *remove* the pause on EMFILE/ENFILE and busy-spin the accept loop against a
237/// full descriptor table. As a named function it can be driven under a paused
238/// clock, which is what `backoff_pauses_only_on_fd_exhaustion` does.
239pub(crate) async fn pause_after_accept_error(err: &std::io::Error) {
240 let backoff = accept_retry_backoff(err);
241 if !backoff.is_zero() {
242 tokio::time::sleep(backoff).await;
243 }
244}
245
246pub(crate) fn accept_retry_backoff(err: &std::io::Error) -> std::time::Duration {
247 // EMFILE (24) / ENFILE (23) on Unix. On platforms that report other codes
248 // the loop still retries — just without the extra pause.
249 match err.raw_os_error() {
250 Some(23 | 24) => std::time::Duration::from_millis(20),
251 _ => std::time::Duration::ZERO,
252 }
253}
254
255// ── Tests ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
256
257#[cfg(test)]
258mod tests {
259 use super::*;
260
261 use http_body_util::{BodyExt, Empty};
262 use hyper_util::client::legacy::Client;
263 use hyper_util::rt::TokioExecutor;
264
265 #[test]
266 fn accept_retry_backoff_pauses_only_on_fd_exhaustion() {
267 use std::io::{Error, ErrorKind};
268 // EMFILE (24) / ENFILE (23): back off so the accept loop doesn't
269 // busy-spin while the descriptor table is full.
270 assert!(!accept_retry_backoff(&Error::from_raw_os_error(24)).is_zero());
271 assert!(!accept_retry_backoff(&Error::from_raw_os_error(23)).is_zero());
272 // A per-connection abort (ECONNABORTED = 103 on Linux) retries at once.
273 assert!(accept_retry_backoff(&Error::from_raw_os_error(103)).is_zero());
274 // A synthetic error carrying no OS code also retries at once (no panic).
275 assert!(
276 accept_retry_backoff(&Error::new(ErrorKind::ConnectionAborted, "aborted")).is_zero()
277 );
278 }
279
280 struct MockDispatcher;
281
282 impl Dispatcher for MockDispatcher {
283 fn dispatch(
284 &self,
285 _req: hyper::Request<Incoming>,
286 ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = DispatchResponse> + Send + '_>> {
287 Box::pin(async {
288 let body = http_body_util::Full::new(Bytes::from("ok"));
289 hyper::Response::new(BoxBody::new(body.map_err(|e| match e {})))
290 })
291 }
292 }
293
294 #[tokio::test]
295 async fn serve_with_addr_returns_bound_address() {
296 let addr = serve_with_addr("127.0.0.1:0", MockDispatcher)
297 .await
298 .expect("server should bind");
299
300 assert_ne!(addr.port(), 0, "should bind to a real port");
301 assert!(addr.ip().is_loopback());
302
303 let client = Client::builder(TokioExecutor::new()).build_http::<Empty<Bytes>>();
304 let resp = client
305 .get(format!("http://{addr}/").parse().unwrap())
306 .await
307 .unwrap();
308 assert_eq!(resp.status(), 200);
309
310 let body = resp.into_body().collect().await.unwrap().to_bytes();
311 assert_eq!(&body[..], b"ok");
312 }
313
314 #[tokio::test]
315 async fn serve_with_addr_handles_multiple_connections() {
316 let addr = serve_with_addr("127.0.0.1:0", MockDispatcher)
317 .await
318 .expect("server should bind");
319
320 let client = Client::builder(TokioExecutor::new()).build_http::<Empty<Bytes>>();
321
322 for i in 0..3 {
323 let resp = client
324 .get(format!("http://{addr}/").parse().unwrap())
325 .await
326 .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("request {i} failed: {e}"));
327 let body = resp.into_body().collect().await.unwrap().to_bytes();
328 assert_eq!(&body[..], b"ok", "request {i} returned unexpected body");
329 }
330 }
331
332 /// Kills `delete !` in both accept loops — now a single `!` inside
333 /// `pause_after_accept_error`.
334 ///
335 /// Driven on a paused clock, so the assertion is on *virtual* elapsed
336 /// time: deterministic, instant, and immune to scheduler noise. A
337 /// wall-clock version would be either flaky at 20 ms or slow enough that
338 /// nobody keeps it.
339 ///
340 /// Inverted, the guard sleeps zero when the backoff is zero (a no-op) and
341 /// skips the sleep when it is not — so the EMFILE pause disappears and the
342 /// accept loop spins against a full descriptor table. That is what the
343 /// first assertion pins.
344 #[tokio::test(start_paused = true)]
345 async fn backoff_pauses_only_on_fd_exhaustion() {
346 use std::io::Error;
347 use std::time::Duration;
348
349 let start = tokio::time::Instant::now();
350 pause_after_accept_error(&Error::from_raw_os_error(24)).await;
351 assert!(
352 start.elapsed() >= Duration::from_millis(20),
353 "fd exhaustion (EMFILE) must pause the accept loop; no elapsed \
354 time means it would busy-spin while the descriptor table is full"
355 );
356
357 let start = tokio::time::Instant::now();
358 pause_after_accept_error(&Error::from_raw_os_error(23)).await;
359 assert!(
360 start.elapsed() >= Duration::from_millis(20),
361 "ENFILE must pause for the same reason"
362 );
363
364 // A per-connection abort retries immediately. Asserted so the test
365 // cannot pass against a body that simply always sleeps.
366 let start = tokio::time::Instant::now();
367 pause_after_accept_error(&Error::from_raw_os_error(103)).await;
368 assert_eq!(
369 start.elapsed(),
370 Duration::ZERO,
371 "a transient per-connection error must retry at once"
372 );
373 }
374
375 /// Kills `replace serve -> std::io::Result<()> with Ok(())`.
376 ///
377 /// Every other test in this module drives `serve_with_addr`, a different
378 /// function. `serve` itself was never called, so a body that bound nothing
379 /// and returned success was indistinguishable from a working one.
380 #[tokio::test]
381 async fn serve_binds_and_answers_requests() {
382 // Reserve an ephemeral port and release it: `serve` takes an address
383 // rather than a listener, so it needs a concrete one to bind.
384 let probe = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:0")
385 .await
386 .expect("reserve a port");
387 let addr = probe.local_addr().expect("addr");
388 drop(probe);
389
390 let server = tokio::spawn(async move { serve(addr, MockDispatcher).await });
391
392 // Binding is asynchronous, so the first connect can lose the race
393 // legitimately. Bounded, so the mutant fails fast rather than hanging.
394 let client = Client::builder(TokioExecutor::new()).build_http::<Empty<Bytes>>();
395 let mut last_err = None;
396 let mut response = None;
397 for _ in 0..50 {
398 match client
399 .get(format!("http://{addr}/").parse().expect("uri"))
400 .await
401 {
402 Ok(resp) => {
403 response = Some(resp);
404 break;
405 }
406 Err(e) => {
407 last_err = Some(e);
408 tokio::time::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(20)).await;
409 }
410 }
411 }
412
413 let resp = response.unwrap_or_else(|| {
414 panic!(
415 "nothing served on {addr} after ~1s; `serve` never bound it. \
416 last error: {last_err:?}"
417 )
418 });
419 assert_eq!(
420 resp.status(),
421 200,
422 "the dispatcher's response must come back"
423 );
424 let body = resp.into_body().collect().await.expect("body").to_bytes();
425 assert_eq!(&body[..], b"ok", "the body must come from MockDispatcher");
426
427 server.abort();
428 }
429}