a2a_protocol_server/interceptor/

mod.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! Server-side interceptor chain.
//!
//! [`ServerInterceptor`] allows middleware-style hooks before and after each
//! A2A method invocation, whatever the binding it arrived on, and one hook,
//! [`on_complete`](ServerInterceptor::on_complete), that sees how every call
//! ended. [`ServerInterceptorChain`] manages an ordered list of interceptors
//! and runs them sequentially.

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

use a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult;

use crate::call_context::CallContext;
use crate::error::ServerError;

mod completion;
#[cfg(test)]
mod completion_tests;

/// How a call ended, as [`ServerInterceptor::on_complete`] is told.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub enum CallOutcome<'a> {
    /// The handler answered and every [`after`](ServerInterceptor::after)
    /// hook succeeded: the caller is sent the handler's response.
    Succeeded,
    /// The call failed, and this is the error the caller is sent. It came
    /// from a [`before`](ServerInterceptor::before) hook that refused the
    /// call, from the handler, or from an [`after`](ServerInterceptor::after)
    /// hook.
    Failed(&'a ServerError),
    /// The call's future was dropped before it answered, so the caller was
    /// sent nothing: the client disconnected, a timeout above the handler
    /// gave up on it, or the server shut down.
    Cancelled,
}

/// A server-side interceptor for request processing.
///
/// Interceptors run before and after the core handler logic. They can be used
/// for logging, authentication, rate-limiting, or other cross-cutting concerns.
///
/// # Object safety
///
/// This trait is designed to be used behind `Arc<dyn ServerInterceptor>`.
pub trait ServerInterceptor: Send + Sync + 'static {
    /// Called before the request handler processes the method call.
    ///
    /// Return `Err(...)` to abort the request with an error response.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) to reject the request.
    fn before<'a>(
        &'a self,
        ctx: &'a CallContext,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>>;

    /// Called after the request handler has succeeded, before its response
    /// is returned.
    ///
    /// It is **not** called when the handler returned an error, and an error
    /// it returns replaces the handler's response. Until 2026-09-24 this said
    /// the opposite on both counts, which no method did. For
    /// `SendMessage` and `SendStreamingMessage` it runs once the task's
    /// events are being persisted — after a blocking send has collected
    /// them, or once a stream's processor is attached — so an error here
    /// fails the call without orphaning the task the agent is running.
    /// Use it for logging, metrics, or cleanup.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) if post-processing fails.
    fn after<'a>(
        &'a self,
        ctx: &'a CallContext,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>>;

    /// Called once when a call ends, however it ends — with the response, with
    /// an error, or by being dropped unanswered — on every interceptor whose
    /// [`before`](Self::before) was called for it.
    ///
    /// This is the hook for work that must happen whatever the outcome:
    /// releasing what `before` acquired, closing an audit record, counting
    /// failures by caller. [`after`](Self::after) cannot do that, because it
    /// runs only on success and its error replaces the response.
    ///
    /// The contract, in full:
    ///
    /// - **Pairing.** It is called on an interceptor exactly when that
    ///   interceptor's `before` was called for the call, including when that
    ///   `before` returned the error that refused it. An interceptor after
    ///   the one that refused is not called, since its `before` never ran.
    /// - **Order.** Reverse insertion order, as for `after`.
    /// - **When.** On a call that answers, after every `after` hook and
    ///   before the response is returned, so a record it writes exists before
    ///   the caller sees the answer. On a dropped call it runs in a task
    ///   spawned when the call is dropped, with [`CallOutcome::Cancelled`];
    ///   if no Tokio runtime is running at that point it is not called.
    /// - **Once.** It is started at most once per interceptor per call. If
    ///   the call is dropped while one interceptor's `on_complete` is running,
    ///   that one is not restarted, and the ones not yet started are then
    ///   called with [`CallOutcome::Cancelled`].
    /// - **No effect on the response.** It returns nothing, so it cannot
    ///   change or fail the call.
    ///
    /// For `SendStreamingMessage` and `SubscribeToTask` the call ends when
    /// the stream is established and its first frame can be sent, not when
    /// the stream closes — the same point at which `after` runs.
    ///
    /// Calls that reach the handler through
    /// [`ServerInterceptorChain::run_before`] and
    /// [`run_after`](ServerInterceptorChain::run_after) directly, rather than
    /// through [`RequestHandler`](crate::RequestHandler), do not call it.
    ///
    /// The default does nothing.
    // Equivalent mutant: the body is an empty future, and cargo-mutants'
    // replacement is `Box::pin(async move { () })`, another empty future.
    // No test can distinguish the two (ADR 0006).
    #[mutants::skip]
    fn on_complete<'a>(
        &'a self,
        ctx: &'a CallContext,
        outcome: CallOutcome<'a>,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = ()> + Send + 'a>> {
        let _ = (ctx, outcome);
        Box::pin(async {})
    }

    /// Returns `true` if this interceptor authenticates requests — i.e. its
    /// [`before`](Self::before) hook rejects callers that do not present
    /// valid credentials.
    ///
    /// The extended agent card endpoint MUST require authentication (spec
    /// §13.3); the handler uses this marker to verify that at least one
    /// authenticating interceptor guards the chain before serving the card.
    /// The default is `false` (logging/metrics-style interceptors do not
    /// authenticate); auth interceptors — including custom ones — should
    /// override this to `true`.
    fn authenticates(&self) -> bool {
        false
    }
}

/// An ordered chain of [`ServerInterceptor`] instances.
///
/// Interceptors are executed in insertion order for `before` and reverse order
/// for `after` and `on_complete`.
#[derive(Default)]
pub struct ServerInterceptorChain {
    interceptors: Vec<Arc<dyn ServerInterceptor>>,
}

impl ServerInterceptorChain {
    /// Creates an empty interceptor chain.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn new() -> Self {
        Self::default()
    }

    /// Appends an interceptor to the chain.
    pub fn push(&mut self, interceptor: Arc<dyn ServerInterceptor>) {
        self.interceptors.push(interceptor);
    }

    /// Runs all `before` hooks in insertion order.
    ///
    /// Stops at the first error and returns it.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns the first [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) from any interceptor.
    pub async fn run_before(&self, ctx: &CallContext) -> A2aResult<()> {
        for interceptor in &self.interceptors {
            interceptor.before(ctx).await?;
        }
        Ok(())
    }

    /// Runs all `after` hooks in reverse insertion order.
    ///
    /// Stops at the first error and returns it.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns the first [`A2aError`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError) from any interceptor.
    pub async fn run_after(&self, ctx: &CallContext) -> A2aResult<()> {
        for interceptor in self.interceptors.iter().rev() {
            interceptor.after(ctx).await?;
        }
        Ok(())
    }

    /// Returns `true` when at least one interceptor in the chain
    /// [authenticates](ServerInterceptor::authenticates) requests.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn has_authenticator(&self) -> bool {
        self.interceptors.iter().any(|i| i.authenticates())
    }
}

impl fmt::Debug for ServerInterceptorChain {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        f.debug_struct("ServerInterceptorChain")
            .field("count", &self.interceptors.len())
            .finish()
    }
}

use std::fmt;

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    #[test]
    fn debug_shows_count() {
        let chain = ServerInterceptorChain::new();
        let debug = format!("{chain:?}");
        assert!(debug.contains("ServerInterceptorChain"));
        assert!(debug.contains("count"));
        assert!(debug.contains('0'));
    }

    struct NoopInterceptor;
    impl ServerInterceptor for NoopInterceptor {
        fn before<'a>(
            &'a self,
            _ctx: &'a CallContext,
        ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
            Box::pin(async { Ok(()) })
        }
        fn after<'a>(
            &'a self,
            _ctx: &'a CallContext,
        ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
            Box::pin(async { Ok(()) })
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn debug_shows_correct_count_after_push() {
        let mut chain = ServerInterceptorChain::new();
        chain.push(Arc::new(NoopInterceptor));
        chain.push(Arc::new(NoopInterceptor));
        let debug = format!("{chain:?}");
        assert!(debug.contains('2'), "expected count=2 in debug: {debug}");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn run_before_calls_interceptors_in_order() {
        let mut chain = ServerInterceptorChain::new();
        chain.push(Arc::new(NoopInterceptor));
        chain.push(Arc::new(NoopInterceptor));
        let ctx = CallContext::new("test");
        chain.run_before(&ctx).await.unwrap();
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn run_after_calls_interceptors_in_reverse() {
        let mut chain = ServerInterceptorChain::new();
        chain.push(Arc::new(NoopInterceptor));
        chain.push(Arc::new(NoopInterceptor));
        let ctx = CallContext::new("test");
        chain.run_after(&ctx).await.unwrap();
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn empty_chain_succeeds() {
        let chain = ServerInterceptorChain::new();
        let ctx = CallContext::new("test");
        chain.run_before(&ctx).await.unwrap();
        chain.run_after(&ctx).await.unwrap();
    }

    /// Kills `replace ServerInterceptor::authenticates -> bool with true` on
    /// the trait's default body.
    ///
    /// The default is `false`: a logging or metrics interceptor does not
    /// authenticate anyone. `has_authenticator` is what the handler consults
    /// before serving the extended agent card, which spec §13.3 says MUST
    /// require authentication. Flipped to `true`, *any* interceptor — a bare
    /// metrics hook — satisfies that check, and an unauthenticated caller is
    /// served the extended card.
    ///
    /// `NoopInterceptor` above overrides nothing, so it inherits the default
    /// and is the right probe.
    #[test]
    fn a_non_authenticating_interceptor_does_not_satisfy_the_auth_check() {
        assert!(
            !NoopInterceptor.authenticates(),
            "the trait default must be false; an interceptor that does no \
             auth must not claim to"
        );

        let mut chain = ServerInterceptorChain::new();
        chain.push(Arc::new(NoopInterceptor));
        assert!(
            !chain.has_authenticator(),
            "a chain of non-authenticating interceptors must not report an \
             authenticator; reporting one lets the extended agent card be \
             served to unauthenticated callers (spec §13.3)"
        );

        // And an empty chain, so the assertion above cannot pass merely
        // because `any()` is vacuously false for both.
        assert!(
            !ServerInterceptorChain::new().has_authenticator(),
            "an empty chain has no authenticator"
        );
    }
}