a2a_protocol_server/dispatch/jsonrpc/
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//! JSON-RPC 2.0 dispatcher.
7//!
8//! [`JsonRpcDispatcher`] reads JSON-RPC requests from HTTP bodies, routes
9//! them to the appropriate [`RequestHandler`] method, and serializes the
10//! response (or streams SSE for streaming methods).
11
12mod refusal;
13mod response;
14
15use std::collections::HashMap;
16use std::convert::Infallible;
17use std::sync::Arc;
18
19use bytes::Bytes;
20use http_body_util::combinators::BoxBody;
21use hyper::body::Incoming;
22
23use a2a_protocol_types::error::ErrorCode;
24use a2a_protocol_types::jsonrpc::{JsonRpcError, JsonRpcErrorResponse, JsonRpcId, JsonRpcRequest};
25
26use crate::agent_card::StaticAgentCardHandler;
27use crate::dispatch::cors::CorsConfig;
28use crate::error::ServerError;
29use crate::handler::{RequestHandler, SendMessageResult};
30use crate::serve::Dispatcher;
31use crate::streaming::build_sse_response;
32
33use response::{
34    error_response, error_response_bytes, extract_headers, json_response, parse_params,
35    read_body_limited, success_response, success_response_bytes,
36};
37
38/// JSON-RPC 2.0 request dispatcher.
39///
40/// Routes incoming JSON-RPC requests to the underlying [`RequestHandler`].
41/// Optionally applies CORS headers to all responses.
42///
43/// Also serves the agent card at `GET /.well-known/agent-card.json` so that
44/// JSON-RPC servers can participate in agent card discovery (spec §8.3).
45pub struct JsonRpcDispatcher {
46    handler: Arc<RequestHandler>,
47    card_handler: Option<StaticAgentCardHandler>,
48    cors: Option<CorsConfig>,
49    config: super::DispatchConfig,
50}
51
52impl JsonRpcDispatcher {
53    /// Creates a new dispatcher wrapping the given handler with default
54    /// configuration.
55    #[must_use]
56    pub fn new(handler: Arc<RequestHandler>) -> Self {
57        Self::with_config(handler, super::DispatchConfig::default())
58    }
59
60    /// Creates a new dispatcher with the given configuration.
61    #[must_use]
62    pub fn with_config(handler: Arc<RequestHandler>, config: super::DispatchConfig) -> Self {
63        let card_handler = handler
64            .agent_card
65            .as_ref()
66            .and_then(|card| StaticAgentCardHandler::new(card).ok());
67        Self {
68            handler,
69            card_handler,
70            cors: None,
71            config,
72        }
73    }
74
75    /// Sets CORS configuration for this dispatcher.
76    ///
77    /// When set, all responses will include CORS headers, and `OPTIONS` preflight
78    /// requests will be handled automatically.
79    #[must_use]
80    pub fn with_cors(mut self, cors: CorsConfig) -> Self {
81        self.cors = Some(cors);
82        self
83    }
84
85    /// Dispatches a JSON-RPC request and returns an HTTP response.
86    ///
87    /// For `SendStreamingMessage` and `SubscribeToTask`, the response uses
88    /// SSE (`text/event-stream`). All other methods return JSON.
89    ///
90    /// JSON-RPC errors are always returned as HTTP 200 with an error body.
91    /// For the two streaming methods that includes an error raised before
92    /// the stream starts: it is a plain `application/json` JSON-RPC error
93    /// response, not SSE. The official conformance kit (a2aproject/a2a-tck)
94    /// requires this shape — it treats any `text/event-stream` answer as a
95    /// successful stream (STREAM-SUB-003/004). a2a-go v2.5.0's client reads
96    /// streaming answers only as SSE and so loses these errors; that is
97    /// a2a-go's divergence, pinned by `scripts/go_sdk_interop.sh`.
98    pub async fn dispatch(
99        &self,
100        req: hyper::Request<Incoming>,
101    ) -> hyper::Response<BoxBody<Bytes, Infallible>> {
102        // Handle CORS preflight requests.
103        if req.method() == "OPTIONS" {
104            if let Some(ref cors) = self.cors {
105                return cors.preflight_response();
106            }
107            return json_response(204, Vec::new());
108        }
109
110        // Serve the agent card at the well-known discovery path (spec §8.3).
111        // This must be handled before JSON-RPC body parsing since it's a GET.
112        if req.method() == "GET" && req.uri().path() == "/.well-known/agent-card.json" {
113            let mut resp = self.card_handler.as_ref().map_or_else(
114                || json_response(404, br#"{"error":"agent card not configured"}"#.to_vec()),
115                |h| h.handle(&req).map(http_body_util::BodyExt::boxed),
116            );
117            if let Some(ref cors) = self.cors {
118                cors.apply_headers(&mut resp);
119            }
120            return resp;
121        }
122
123        // Capture the raw A2A-Extensions request header before the request is
124        // consumed, so the activated set can be echoed on the response
125        // (official-SDK convention; lets clients see which requested
126        // extensions the agent honored).
127        let requested_extensions = req
128            .headers()
129            .get(a2a_protocol_types::A2A_EXTENSIONS_HEADER)
130            .and_then(|v| v.to_str().ok())
131            .map(str::to_owned);
132
133        // Boxed on clippy's own recommendation: the dispatch future is ~16 KiB,
134        // and moving that much state around on the stack per request costs
135        // more than one allocation. It crossed the `large_futures` threshold
136        // when `InMemoryQueueReader` gained its reattach hook (STREAM-SUB-002).
137        let mut resp = Box::pin(self.dispatch_inner(req, std::time::Instant::now())).await;
138        if let Some(hval) = self
139            .handler
140            .activated_extensions_header_value(requested_extensions.as_deref())
141            && let Ok(v) = hyper::header::HeaderValue::from_str(&hval)
142        {
143            resp.headers_mut()
144                .insert(a2a_protocol_types::A2A_EXTENSIONS_HEADER, v);
145        }
146        if let Some(ref cors) = self.cors {
147            cors.apply_headers(&mut resp);
148        }
149        resp
150    }
151
152    /// Inner dispatch logic (separated to allow CORS wrapping).
153    #[allow(clippy::too_many_lines)]
154    async fn dispatch_inner(
155        &self,
156        req: hyper::Request<Incoming>,
157        started: std::time::Instant,
158    ) -> hyper::Response<BoxBody<Bytes, Infallible>> {
159        // Validate Content-Type if present.
160        if let Some(ct) = req.headers().get("content-type") {
161            let ct_str = ct.to_str().unwrap_or("");
162            if !ct_str.starts_with("application/json")
163                && !ct_str.starts_with(a2a_protocol_types::A2A_CONTENT_TYPE)
164            {
165                // Spec §5.4 maps an unsupported media type to
166                // ContentTypeNotSupportedError (-32005), not ParseError
167                // (-32700): the body was never parsed, so "parse error" both
168                // misreports the cause and denies the client the machine-
169                // readable `CONTENT_TYPE_NOT_SUPPORTED` reason. Routing it
170                // through `error_response` also attaches the §10.6 ErrorInfo
171                // detail like every other A2A error.
172                return self.refuse(
173                    started,
174                    &ServerError::Protocol(
175                        a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError::content_type_not_supported(format!(
176                            "unsupported Content-Type: {ct_str}; expected application/json or application/a2a+json"
177                        )),
178                    ),
179                );
180            }
181        }
182
183        // Validate the A2A-Version header per spec §3.6.2: an absent or
184        // empty value is interpreted as protocol 0.3 and rejected under the
185        // strict default (reference-SDK parity); any 1.x is accepted.
186        let version_value = req
187            .headers()
188            .get(a2a_protocol_types::A2A_VERSION_HEADER)
189            .and_then(|v| v.to_str().ok());
190        if let Err(err) =
191            super::validate_version_header(version_value, self.config.require_version_header)
192        {
193            return self.refuse(started, &ServerError::Protocol(err));
194        }
195
196        // Extract HTTP headers BEFORE consuming the body.
197        let headers = extract_headers(req.headers());
198
199        // Read body with size limit (default 4 MiB).
200        let body_bytes = match read_body_limited(
201            req.into_body(),
202            self.config.max_request_body_size,
203            self.config.body_read_timeout,
204        )
205        .await
206        {
207            Ok(bytes) => bytes,
208            Err(msg) => return self.refuse_unparsed(started, &msg),
209        };
210
211        // JSON-RPC 2.0 §6.3: detect batch (array) vs single (object) request.
212        let raw: serde_json::Value = match serde_json::from_slice(&body_bytes) {
213            Ok(v) => v,
214            Err(e) => return self.refuse_unparsed(started, &e.to_string()),
215        };
216
217        // Batch request: take ownership of the array to avoid per-item clones.
218        if let serde_json::Value::Array(items) = raw {
219            if items.is_empty() {
220                return self.refuse_invalid(started, "empty batch request");
221            }
222            // FIX(M8): Reject oversized batches to prevent resource exhaustion.
223            if items.len() > self.config.max_batch_size {
224                return self.refuse_invalid(
225                    started,
226                    &format!(
227                        "batch too large: {} requests exceeds {} limit",
228                        items.len(),
229                        self.config.max_batch_size
230                    ),
231                );
232            }
233            let mut responses: Vec<serde_json::Value> = Vec::with_capacity(items.len());
234            for item in items {
235                let rpc_req: JsonRpcRequest = match serde_json::from_value(item) {
236                    Ok(r) => r,
237                    Err(e) => {
238                        // An item that is JSON but not a Request object:
239                        // Invalid Request (-32600), per JSON-RPC 2.0 §6's own
240                        // example `[1]`. Parse error (-32700) is for a body
241                        // that is not JSON, and this one parsed.
242                        self.record_unrouted(started, ErrorCode::InvalidRequest);
243                        let err_resp = JsonRpcErrorResponse::new(
244                            None,
245                            JsonRpcError::new(
246                                a2a_protocol_types::error::ErrorCode::InvalidRequest.as_i32(),
247                                format!("Invalid Request: {e}"),
248                            ),
249                        );
250                        if let Ok(v) = serde_json::to_value(&err_resp) {
251                            responses.push(v);
252                        }
253                        continue;
254                    }
255                };
256                let resp_body = self.dispatch_single_request(&rpc_req, &headers).await;
257                if let Ok(v) = serde_json::from_slice::<serde_json::Value>(&resp_body) {
258                    responses.push(v);
259                }
260            }
261            let body = serde_json::to_vec(&responses).unwrap_or_default();
262            json_response(200, body)
263        } else {
264            // Single request.
265            let rpc_req: JsonRpcRequest = match serde_json::from_value(raw) {
266                Ok(r) => r,
267                // JSON, but not a Request object — no `method`, a number, a
268                // string: Invalid Request (ACTS CORE-ERR-006).
269                Err(e) => return self.refuse_invalid(started, &e.to_string()),
270            };
271            self.dispatch_single_request_http(&rpc_req, &headers).await
272        }
273    }
274
275    /// The span one JSON-RPC call runs in (ADR 0013).
276    fn rpc_span(
277        &self,
278        rpc_req: &JsonRpcRequest,
279        headers: &HashMap<String, String>,
280    ) -> crate::rpc_span::ServerSpan {
281        crate::rpc_span::ServerSpan::open(
282            &self.handler,
283            crate::rpc_span::RpcSystem::JsonRpc,
284            &rpc_req.method,
285            Some(headers),
286        )
287    }
288
289    /// Dispatches a single JSON-RPC request and returns an HTTP response.
290    ///
291    /// For streaming methods, the response is SSE. For non-streaming, JSON.
292    #[allow(clippy::too_many_lines)]
293    async fn dispatch_single_request_http(
294        &self,
295        rpc_req: &JsonRpcRequest,
296        headers: &HashMap<String, String>,
297    ) -> hyper::Response<BoxBody<Bytes, Infallible>> {
298        let id = rpc_req.id.to_response_id();
299        trace_info!(method = %rpc_req.method, "dispatching JSON-RPC request");
300
301        // Streaming methods return SSE, not JSON.
302        match rpc_req.method.as_str() {
303            "SendStreamingMessage" => {
304                let call = async {
305                    let params =
306                        parse_params::<a2a_protocol_types::params::MessageSendParams>(rpc_req)?;
307                    self.handler
308                        .on_send_message(params, true, Some(headers))
309                        .await
310                };
311                self.rpc_span(rpc_req, headers)
312                    .run_with(call, |out| match out {
313                        Ok(SendMessageResult::Response(resp)) => success_response(id, &resp),
314                        Ok(SendMessageResult::Stream(reader)) => build_sse_response(
315                            reader,
316                            Some(self.config.sse_keep_alive_interval),
317                            Some(self.config.sse_channel_capacity),
318                            // JSON-RPC envelope echoing the request id per Section 9.4.2.
319                            Some(id),
320                        ),
321                        Err(e) => error_response(id, &e),
322                    })
323                    .await
324            }
325            "SubscribeToTask" => {
326                let call = async {
327                    let params = parse_params::<a2a_protocol_types::params::TaskIdParams>(rpc_req)?;
328                    self.handler.on_resubscribe(params, Some(headers)).await
329                };
330                self.rpc_span(rpc_req, headers)
331                    .run_with(call, |out| match out {
332                        Ok(reader) => build_sse_response(
333                            reader,
334                            Some(self.config.sse_keep_alive_interval),
335                            Some(self.config.sse_channel_capacity),
336                            // JSON-RPC envelope echoing the request id
337                            // per Section 9.4.2.
338                            Some(id),
339                        ),
340                        Err(e) => error_response(id, &e),
341                    })
342                    .await
343            }
344            // Not `dispatch_single_request`, which answers bytes: a single
345            // call's HTTP status can carry a refused credential (N36), a
346            // batch's cannot, since one batch answers many calls.
347            _ => match self
348                .rpc_span(rpc_req, headers)
349                .run(self.call(id.clone(), rpc_req, headers))
350                .await
351            {
352                Ok(body) => json_response(200, body),
353                Err(e) => error_response(id, &e),
354            },
355        }
356    }
357
358    /// Dispatches a single JSON-RPC request and returns the response body bytes.
359    ///
360    /// Used for both single and batch requests. The call runs in its
361    /// `SERVER` span and is recorded with the error code it answers with.
362    async fn dispatch_single_request(
363        &self,
364        rpc_req: &JsonRpcRequest,
365        headers: &HashMap<String, String>,
366    ) -> Vec<u8> {
367        let id = rpc_req.id.to_response_id();
368        self.rpc_span(rpc_req, headers)
369            .run(self.call(id.clone(), rpc_req, headers))
370            .await
371            .unwrap_or_else(|e| error_response_bytes(id, &e))
372    }
373
374    /// One non-streaming call: the success body, or the error to answer with.
375    #[allow(clippy::too_many_lines)]
376    async fn call(
377        &self,
378        id: JsonRpcId,
379        rpc_req: &JsonRpcRequest,
380        headers: &HashMap<String, String>,
381    ) -> Result<Vec<u8>, ServerError> {
382        let headers = Some(headers);
383        match rpc_req.method.as_str() {
384            "SendMessage" => {
385                let params =
386                    parse_params::<a2a_protocol_types::params::MessageSendParams>(rpc_req)?;
387                match self.handler.on_send_message(params, false, headers).await? {
388                    SendMessageResult::Response(resp) => Ok(success_response_bytes(id, &resp)),
389                    // Shouldn't happen in non-streaming mode.
390                    SendMessageResult::Stream(_) => {
391                        Err(ServerError::Internal("unexpected stream response".into()))
392                    }
393                }
394            }
395            // In batch context, streaming is not supported.
396            "SendStreamingMessage" => Err(ServerError::InvalidParams(
397                "SendStreamingMessage not supported in batch requests".into(),
398            )),
399            "SubscribeToTask" => Err(ServerError::InvalidParams(
400                "SubscribeToTask not supported in batch requests".into(),
401            )),
402            "GetTask" => {
403                let params = parse_params::<a2a_protocol_types::params::TaskQueryParams>(rpc_req)?;
404                let task = self.handler.on_get_task(params, headers).await?;
405                Ok(success_response_bytes(id, &task))
406            }
407            "ListTasks" => {
408                let params = parse_params::<a2a_protocol_types::params::ListTasksParams>(rpc_req)?;
409                let tasks = self.handler.on_list_tasks(params, headers).await?;
410                Ok(success_response_bytes(id, &tasks))
411            }
412            "CancelTask" => {
413                let params = parse_params::<a2a_protocol_types::params::CancelTaskParams>(rpc_req)?;
414                let task = self.handler.on_cancel_task(params, headers).await?;
415                Ok(success_response_bytes(id, &task))
416            }
417            "CreateTaskPushNotificationConfig" => {
418                let params =
419                    parse_params::<a2a_protocol_types::push::TaskPushNotificationConfig>(rpc_req)?;
420                let config = self.handler.on_set_push_config(params, headers).await?;
421                Ok(success_response_bytes(id, &config))
422            }
423            "GetTaskPushNotificationConfig" => {
424                let params =
425                    parse_params::<a2a_protocol_types::params::GetPushConfigParams>(rpc_req)?;
426                let config = self.handler.on_get_push_config(params, headers).await?;
427                Ok(success_response_bytes(id, &config))
428            }
429            "ListTaskPushNotificationConfigs" => {
430                let params =
431                    parse_params::<a2a_protocol_types::params::ListPushConfigsParams>(rpc_req)?;
432                let configs = self
433                    .handler
434                    .on_list_push_configs(&params.task_id, params.tenant.as_deref(), headers)
435                    .await?;
436                let resp = a2a_protocol_types::responses::ListPushConfigsResponse {
437                    configs,
438                    next_page_token: None,
439                };
440                Ok(success_response_bytes(id, &resp))
441            }
442            "DeleteTaskPushNotificationConfig" => {
443                let params =
444                    parse_params::<a2a_protocol_types::params::DeletePushConfigParams>(rpc_req)?;
445                self.handler.on_delete_push_config(params, headers).await?;
446                Ok(success_response_bytes(id, &serde_json::json!({})))
447            }
448            "GetExtendedAgentCard" => {
449                let card = self.handler.on_get_extended_agent_card(headers).await?;
450                Ok(success_response_bytes(id, &card))
451            }
452            other => Err(ServerError::MethodNotFound(other.to_owned())),
453        }
454    }
455}
456
457impl std::fmt::Debug for JsonRpcDispatcher {
458    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
459        f.debug_struct("JsonRpcDispatcher").finish()
460    }
461}
462
463// ── Dispatcher impl ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
464
465impl Dispatcher for JsonRpcDispatcher {
466    fn dispatch(
467        &self,
468        req: hyper::Request<Incoming>,
469    ) -> std::pin::Pin<
470        Box<dyn std::future::Future<Output = crate::serve::DispatchResponse> + Send + '_>,
471    > {
472        Box::pin(self.dispatch(req))
473    }
474
475    fn request_handler(&self) -> Option<&Arc<RequestHandler>> {
476        Some(&self.handler)
477    }
478}
a2a_protocol_server/dispatch/jsonrpc/mod.rs

a2a_protocol_server/dispatch/jsonrpc/
mod.rs
