a2a_protocol_server/store/task_store/

mod.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! Task persistence trait and in-memory implementation.
//!
//! [`TaskStore`] abstracts task persistence so that the server framework can
//! be backed by any storage engine. [`InMemoryTaskStore`] provides a
//! pre-allocated `HashMap`-based implementation suitable for testing and
//! single-process deployments.

mod in_memory;

use std::future::Future;
use std::pin::Pin;

use a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult;
use a2a_protocol_types::events::StreamResponse;
use a2a_protocol_types::message::MessageId;
use a2a_protocol_types::params::ListTasksParams;
use a2a_protocol_types::responses::TaskListResponse;
use a2a_protocol_types::task::{Task, TaskId};

pub use in_memory::InMemoryTaskStore;

mod config;
mod records;

pub use config::{
    DEFAULT_IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_TTL, DEFAULT_MAX_EVENTS_PER_TASK, DEFAULT_MAX_PAGE_SIZE,
    TaskStoreConfig,
};
pub use records::{ArtifactDelta, IdempotencyClaim, RecordedEvent};

/// Trait for persisting and retrieving [`Task`] objects.
///
/// All methods return `Pin<Box<dyn Future>>` for object safety — this trait
/// is used as `Box<dyn TaskStore>`.
///
/// # Object safety
///
/// Do not add `async fn` methods; use the explicit `Pin<Box<...>>` form.
///
/// # Example
///
/// ```rust
/// use std::future::Future;
/// use std::pin::Pin;
/// use a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult;
/// use a2a_protocol_types::params::ListTasksParams;
/// use a2a_protocol_types::responses::TaskListResponse;
/// use a2a_protocol_types::task::{Task, TaskId};
/// use a2a_protocol_server::store::TaskStore;
///
/// /// A no-op store that rejects all operations (for illustration).
/// struct NullStore;
///
/// impl TaskStore for NullStore {
///     fn save<'a>(&'a self, _task: &'a Task)
///         -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>>
///     {
///         Box::pin(async { Ok(()) })
///     }
///
///     fn get<'a>(&'a self, _id: &'a TaskId)
///         -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<Option<Task>>> + Send + 'a>>
///     {
///         Box::pin(async { Ok(None) })
///     }
///
///     fn list<'a>(&'a self, _params: &'a ListTasksParams)
///         -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<TaskListResponse>> + Send + 'a>>
///     {
///         Box::pin(async { Ok(TaskListResponse::new(vec![])) })
///     }
///
///     fn insert_if_absent<'a>(&'a self, _task: &'a Task)
///         -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<bool>> + Send + 'a>>
///     {
///         Box::pin(async { Ok(true) })
///     }
///
///     fn delete<'a>(&'a self, _id: &'a TaskId)
///         -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>>
///     {
///         Box::pin(async { Ok(()) })
///     }
/// }
/// ```
pub trait TaskStore: Send + Sync + 'static {
    /// Saves (creates or updates) a task.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) if the store operation fails.
    fn save<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task: &'a Task,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>>;

    /// Retrieves a task by its ID, returning `None` if not found.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) if the store operation fails.
    fn get<'a>(
        &'a self,
        id: &'a TaskId,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<Option<Task>>> + Send + 'a>>;

    /// Lists tasks matching the given filter parameters.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) if the store operation fails.
    fn list<'a>(
        &'a self,
        params: &'a ListTasksParams,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<TaskListResponse>> + Send + 'a>>;

    /// Atomically inserts a task only if no task with the same ID exists.
    ///
    /// Returns `Ok(true)` if the task was inserted, `Ok(false)` if a task
    /// with the same ID already exists (no modification made).
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) if the store operation fails.
    fn insert_if_absent<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task: &'a Task,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<bool>> + Send + 'a>>;

    /// Deletes a task by its ID.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) if the store operation fails.
    fn delete<'a>(
        &'a self,
        id: &'a TaskId,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>>;

    /// Returns the total number of tasks in the store.
    ///
    /// Useful for monitoring, metrics, and capacity management. Has a default
    /// implementation that returns `0` so existing implementations are not
    /// broken when this method is added.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) if the store operation fails.
    fn count<'a>(&'a self) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<u64>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async { Ok(0) })
    }

    /// Whether this store can back idempotency keys.
    ///
    /// Defaults to `false`, and that default is load-bearing: a server
    /// advertises the idempotency extension only where this is `true`, and
    /// refuses a send carrying a key where it is not. A store that has not
    /// implemented [`claim_idempotency_key`](TaskStore::claim_idempotency_key)
    /// therefore produces a missing advertisement and a loud refusal, never a
    /// send that quietly runs twice. Silent at-least-once is what the feature
    /// exists to remove; it must not also be what forgetting to implement it
    /// produces.
    fn supports_idempotency(&self) -> bool {
        false
    }

    /// Atomically claims `key` for `task_id` on behalf of `message_id`.
    ///
    /// Concurrent claims of one key must resolve to exactly one
    /// [`Claimed`](IdempotencyClaim::Claimed); every other caller observes
    /// [`Replay`](IdempotencyClaim::Replay) or
    /// [`Conflict`](IdempotencyClaim::Conflict). An implementation that is not
    /// atomic here reintroduces the double execution this prevents.
    ///
    /// # What counts as the same request
    ///
    /// The `message_id`, not the message body. A genuine retry resends the
    /// identical message — the caller kept it in order to resend it — so its
    /// id is unchanged, while a distinct send carries a fresh one. This
    /// compares message *identity* and deliberately does not hash content: a
    /// caller reusing one `MessageId` for two bodies has already broken an
    /// invariant the protocol cannot check on its behalf.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// The default implementation reports an unsupported operation; it is
    /// never reached unless
    /// [`supports_idempotency`](TaskStore::supports_idempotency) is `true`.
    /// Implementations return an error if the store operation fails.
    fn claim_idempotency_key<'a>(
        &'a self,
        key: &'a str,
        message_id: &'a MessageId,
        task_id: &'a TaskId,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<IdempotencyClaim>> + Send + 'a>> {
        let _ = (key, message_id, task_id);
        Box::pin(async {
            Err(a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError::unsupported_operation(
                "this task store does not implement idempotency keys",
            ))
        })
    }

    /// Releases a key claimed by [`claim_idempotency_key`](TaskStore::claim_idempotency_key),
    /// so it can be claimed again.
    ///
    /// # Why this exists
    ///
    /// A claim is taken before the send's remaining side effects — the queue
    /// lease, the task row, the inline push config — precisely so that two
    /// racing duplicates cannot both get past it. Any of those can still fail,
    /// and a claim left behind by a send that never created a task is worse
    /// than no claim at all: the caller's legitimate retry would replay to a
    /// task id that never existed. Every failure path after the claim
    /// releases it, which is the same discipline the queue lease and
    /// cancellation token already follow.
    ///
    /// Releasing a key that is not held is not an error; a failure path may
    /// run after another caller has already taken over.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// The default implementation reports an unsupported operation. It is
    /// unreachable in practice: a release only follows a successful claim,
    /// which only a store with
    /// [`supports_idempotency`](TaskStore::supports_idempotency) can grant.
    fn release_idempotency_key<'a>(
        &'a self,
        key: &'a str,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
        let _ = key;
        Box::pin(async {
            Err(a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError::unsupported_operation(
                "this task store does not implement idempotency keys",
            ))
        })
    }

    /// Persists an artifact change that has **already been applied** to `task`.
    ///
    /// # Why this exists
    ///
    /// A streaming agent emits one artifact event per chunk, and the obvious
    /// implementation persists each one with [`save`](TaskStore::save) — which
    /// hands the store the whole task. The task grows with every chunk, so the
    /// cost of one event is proportional to the number of events before it, and
    /// the cost of a stream is quadratic in its length. Measured on the
    /// `backpressure/append_volume` benchmark, a 502-event stream spent 43.4 ms
    /// against the in-memory store versus 3.2 ms against a store that discards
    /// everything: **13.5× of that stream was re-persisting artifacts already
    /// persisted.**
    ///
    /// `delta` says exactly what changed, so a store that can update a record
    /// in place does work proportional to the change rather than to the record.
    ///
    /// # Implementing this
    ///
    /// The default replaces the whole record via `save`, which is always
    /// correct — every existing implementation keeps working unchanged, and a
    /// store with no incremental update path should keep it. Overriding is
    /// worthwhile for any store where applying a delta is cheaper than
    /// rewriting the record.
    ///
    /// All three stores shipped here override it, and what each one wins
    /// differs with its storage model:
    ///
    /// | Store | Approach | Measured on a 500-chunk stream |
    /// |---|---|---|
    /// | [`InMemoryTaskStore`] | Mutates the stored task in place | 43.4 ms to 2.5 ms |
    /// | `SqliteTaskStore` | `json_set` splices the tail into the document | 144.5 ms to 127.6 ms |
    /// | `PostgresTaskStore` | `jsonb_set` with `\|\|` array concat | 798 ms to 500 ms |
    ///
    /// The in-memory win is the largest because a full `save` there is a deep
    /// clone and a delta is a `Vec` extend. The SQL stores keep one JSON
    /// document per row, so they still rewrite the row internally; what the
    /// delta removes is the Rust-side serialization of the whole task and its
    /// transfer as a bind parameter. That is enough to flatten Postgres's
    /// per-event cost — 874, 1183, 1597 µs at 50, 250 and 500 chunks with
    /// `save`, against 853, 840, 1000 µs with the delta — but not to make
    /// either SQL store as cheap as memory. Only normalising artifacts into
    /// their own table would do that, and the same measurements put the
    /// per-event round trip well above the document-size term, so it would buy
    /// the smaller half.
    ///
    /// An override **must** leave the store holding exactly what `save(task)`
    /// would have left it holding. `delta` describes a change already present
    /// in `task`; if an implementation cannot apply it — the record is missing,
    /// or its shape does not match — it must fall back to `save(task)` rather
    /// than persist a divergent record.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) if the store operation fails.
    fn save_artifact_delta<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task: &'a Task,
        delta: ArtifactDelta,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
        let _ = delta;
        self.save(task)
    }

    // ── The event log ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
    //
    // A task's state is a *fold*: a stored snapshot folded together with
    // deltas. Issue #130 happened because that fold was wrong in a way
    // nothing could observe — artifacts from one task appeared on another,
    // and the only record was the folded result, which is to say the bug
    // itself. There was nothing to check it against.
    //
    // These three methods add the thing there was nothing to check against:
    // an append-only, ordered record of what the agent actually emitted.
    // The snapshot stays and stays authoritative for reads; the log is what
    // makes a wrong snapshot *detectable*, gives a reconnecting subscriber
    // the events it missed instead of a fold it cannot interpret, and is the
    // substrate anything like a signed execution receipt would need.
    //
    // All three default to "not supported" rather than to success, the same
    // discipline `supports_idempotency` follows: a custom store that forgets
    // to implement them reports no log, which is inconvenient. Defaulting
    // `append_event` to `Ok(())` would report a log that silently loses
    // every event, which is worse.

    /// Whether this store keeps a per-task event log.
    ///
    /// `false` by default. A server reads this before offering
    /// resumption-from-offset, so a store without a log degrades to the
    /// snapshot behaviour rather than promising replay it cannot deliver.
    fn supports_event_log(&self) -> bool {
        false
    }

    /// Appends one event at `seq` in the task's log.
    ///
    /// `seq` is a **position, not a counter**: the same `(task_id, seq)`
    /// written twice must leave one row, so replaying an append is
    /// idempotent rather than duplicating an event. That is the property
    /// `sqlite_store::journal` already relies on, and for the same reason —
    /// it makes a retried or overlapping write safe without a read first.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) if the store fails,
    /// or [`unsupported_operation`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError::unsupported_operation)
    /// when the store keeps no log.
    fn append_event<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task_id: &'a TaskId,
        seq: u64,
        event: &'a StreamResponse,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
        let _ = (task_id, seq, event);
        Box::pin(async {
            Err(a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError::unsupported_operation(
                "this task store keeps no event log",
            ))
        })
    }

    /// The highest `seq` this task's log holds, or 0 when it is empty.
    ///
    /// Needed because a task outlives any one executor invocation: a task
    /// parked at `input-required` and then continued gets a *second*
    /// processor, and a `seq` restarting at 1 would collide with positions
    /// the first one already wrote. Since appends are idempotent by
    /// position, those collisions would be silently dropped — the
    /// continuation's events would simply not be recorded. Resuming the
    /// numbering from here is what stops that.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) if the store fails,
    /// or `unsupported_operation` when the store keeps no log.
    fn last_event_seq<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task_id: &'a TaskId,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<u64>> + Send + 'a>> {
        let _ = task_id;
        Box::pin(async {
            Err(a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError::unsupported_operation(
                "this task store keeps no event log",
            ))
        })
    }

    /// Reads a task's events in order, starting after `after_seq`.
    ///
    /// `after_seq` is exclusive, so a subscriber that has seen event `n`
    /// asks for `n` and receives `n+1` onward — which is exactly the
    /// `Last-Event-ID` contract, and avoids the off-by-one that an
    /// inclusive offset invites at every call site.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) if the store fails,
    /// or `unsupported_operation` when the store keeps no log.
    fn read_events<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task_id: &'a TaskId,
        after_seq: u64,
        limit: usize,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<Vec<RecordedEvent>>> + Send + 'a>> {
        let _ = (task_id, after_seq, limit);
        Box::pin(async {
            Err(a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError::unsupported_operation(
                "this task store keeps no event log",
            ))
        })
    }

    /// The lowest `seq` this task's log still holds, or `None` when it holds
    /// nothing — **or when the store cannot say**, which is the default.
    ///
    /// # Why a store has to be able to say this
    ///
    /// [`read_events`](TaskStore::read_events) filters `seq > after_seq` and
    /// returns whatever survives. If the head of the log is gone — truncated
    /// by [`TaskStoreConfig::max_events_per_task`], or swept as an orphan on a
    /// SQL backend — the first event replayed is not `after_seq + 1`, and
    /// nothing in that answer says so. The subscriber cannot tell it apart
    /// from the numbering gaps this design calls normal (an append that
    /// failed skips a position), so it silently receives a stream with a hole
    /// in it and believes it resumed.
    ///
    /// # The default, and why it is `Ok(None)` rather than an error
    ///
    /// The other event-log methods default to `unsupported_operation`, because
    /// a store that forgot to implement them should report no log rather than
    /// an empty one. This one cannot: it was added to a trait that out-of-tree
    /// stores already implement, and defaulting it to an error would break a
    /// working store that keeps a perfectly good log (`STABILITY.md` §4). It
    /// therefore defaults to "cannot say", which is what every caller already
    /// assumed before this existed.
    ///
    /// `None` is consequently **not** evidence that nothing is missing. Read
    /// it through [`event_log_covers`](TaskStore::event_log_covers), which
    /// spells that out in one place.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) if the store fails.
    fn earliest_event_seq<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task_id: &'a TaskId,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<Option<u64>>> + Send + 'a>> {
        let _ = task_id;
        Box::pin(async { Ok(None) })
    }

    /// Whether a replay starting after `after_seq` can be served in full.
    ///
    /// `false` means the log no longer holds `after_seq + 1`: the caller asked
    /// to resume from a position that has been dropped, and serving
    /// [`read_events`](TaskStore::read_events) would hand it a gapped stream
    /// it cannot detect. Answer such a subscriber with an error, or with a
    /// fresh snapshot — anything but a silent partial replay.
    ///
    /// `true` means "no gap can be proven", which is the honest reading: a
    /// store whose [`earliest_event_seq`](TaskStore::earliest_event_seq) is
    /// the default answers `true` always, exactly as callers behaved before
    /// either method existed.
    ///
    /// Provided rather than implemented per store, so the comparison — and the
    /// off-by-one in it, `after_seq` being exclusive — lives once.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) if the store fails.
    fn event_log_covers<'a>(
        &'a self,
        task_id: &'a TaskId,
        after_seq: u64,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<bool>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            Ok(self
                .earliest_event_seq(task_id)
                .await?
                .is_none_or(|earliest| earliest <= after_seq.saturating_add(1)))
        })
    }
}

/// Tests for the default `count` implementation on `TaskStore`.
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests;