a2a_protocol_server/handler/lifecycle/

cancel_task.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! `CancelTask` handler — cancels an in-flight task.

use std::collections::HashMap;
use std::time::Instant;

use a2a_protocol_types::params::CancelTaskParams;
use a2a_protocol_types::task::{Task, TaskId, TaskState, TaskStatus};

use crate::error::{ServerError, ServerResult};
use crate::request_context::RequestContext;

use super::super::RequestHandler;
use super::super::helpers::build_call_context;

impl RequestHandler {
    /// Handles `CancelTask`.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns [`ServerError::TaskNotFound`] or [`ServerError::TaskNotCancelable`].
    #[allow(clippy::too_many_lines)]
    pub async fn on_cancel_task(
        &self,
        params: CancelTaskParams,
        headers: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
    ) -> ServerResult<Task> {
        let start = Instant::now();
        trace_info!(method = "CancelTask", task_id = %params.id, "handling cancel task");
        self.metrics.on_request("CancelTask");

        let tenant = self
            .resolve_tenant("CancelTask", headers, params.tenant.as_deref())
            .await?;
        let result: ServerResult<_> = crate::store::tenant::TenantContext::scope(tenant, async {
            let call_ctx = build_call_context("CancelTask", headers, self.inbound_trace_policy);
            let mut call = self.interceptors.begin(&call_ctx);
            let result = async {
                call.before().await?;
                // SPEC §3.3.4: reject clients that do not declare support for
                // extensions the agent card marks required.
                self.ensure_required_extensions(&call_ctx)?;

                let task_id = TaskId::new(&params.id);
                let task = self
                    .task_store
                    .get(&task_id)
                    .await?
                    .ok_or_else(|| ServerError::TaskNotFound(task_id.clone()))?;

                if task.status.state.is_terminal() {
                    return Err(ServerError::TaskNotCancelable(task_id));
                }

                // Signal the cancellation token so the executor can observe the cancellation.
                {
                    let tokens = self.cancellation_tokens.read().await;
                    if let Some(entry) = tokens.get(&task_id) {
                        entry.token.cancel();
                    }
                }

                // Build a request context for the cancel call.
                let ctx = RequestContext::new(
                    a2a_protocol_types::message::Message {
                        id: a2a_protocol_types::message::MessageId::new(
                            uuid::Uuid::new_v4().to_string(),
                        ),
                        role: a2a_protocol_types::message::MessageRole::User,
                        parts: vec![],
                        task_id: Some(task_id.clone()),
                        context_id: Some(task.context_id.clone()),
                        reference_task_ids: None,
                        extensions: None,
                        metadata: None,
                    },
                    task_id.clone(),
                    task.context_id.0.clone(),
                )
                // The cancel's own call context, not the send's: an executor
                // refusing a cancel needs to know who is asking to cancel.
                .with_call_context(call_ctx.clone());

                // Use a non-registering writer: if a live queue exists (an in-flight
                // streaming task) the cancel event reaches its subscribers;
                // otherwise a throwaway writer is used. `get_or_create` here would
                // INSERT a queue for a task whose executor has already exited (e.g.
                // an input-required task), and nothing on the cancel path ever
                // destroys it — a permanent map + concurrency-slot leak keyed by a
                // client-reachable task id.
                let writer = self.event_queue_manager.writer_for_cancel(&task_id).await;
                self.executor.cancel(&ctx, writer.as_ref()).await?;

                // Re-read the task to narrow the TOCTOU window: if the background
                // processor completed/failed the task between our initial check and
                // now, we must not overwrite the terminal state with Canceled. A
                // re-read of Canceled is NOT that race — it means the cancel event
                // the executor just emitted already persisted, i.e. success.
                let current = self
                    .task_store
                    .get(&task_id)
                    .await?
                    .ok_or_else(|| ServerError::TaskNotFound(task_id.clone()))?;
                if current.status.state == a2a_protocol_types::task::TaskState::Canceled {
                    return Ok(current);
                }
                if current.status.state.is_terminal() {
                    return Err(ServerError::TaskNotCancelable(task_id));
                }

                let mut updated = current;
                updated.status = TaskStatus::with_timestamp(TaskState::Canceled);
                // The re-read above narrows the window; this closes it. The store
                // refuses to move a terminal task (`store::terminal`), so a task
                // that finished between the re-read and this write — on this
                // replica or another — keeps its state, and the caller is told
                // the truth: it was not cancelable.
                if let Err(e) = self.task_store.save(&updated).await {
                    return Err(match crate::store::TerminalStateConflict::from_error(&e) {
                        Some(_) => ServerError::TaskNotCancelable(task_id),
                        None => e.into(),
                    });
                }
                // Re-read to return the authoritative final state.
                let final_task = self
                    .task_store
                    .get(&task_id)
                    .await?
                    .ok_or_else(|| ServerError::TaskNotFound(task_id.clone()))?;

                Ok(final_task)
            }
            .await;
            call.finish(result).await
        })
        .await;

        let elapsed = start.elapsed();
        match &result {
            Ok(_) => {
                self.metrics.on_response("CancelTask");
                self.metrics.on_latency("CancelTask", elapsed);
            }
            Err(e) => {
                self.metrics.on_error("CancelTask", e.metric_label());
                self.metrics.on_latency("CancelTask", elapsed);
            }
        }
        result
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use a2a_protocol_types::params::CancelTaskParams;
    use a2a_protocol_types::task::{ContextId, Task, TaskId, TaskState, TaskStatus};

    use crate::agent_executor;
    use crate::builder::RequestHandlerBuilder;
    use crate::error::ServerError;

    struct DummyExecutor;
    agent_executor!(DummyExecutor, |_ctx, _queue| async { Ok(()) });

    struct CancelableExecutor;
    agent_executor!(CancelableExecutor,
        execute: |_ctx, _queue| async { Ok(()) },
        cancel: |_ctx, _queue| async { Ok(()) }
    );

    fn make_completed_task(id: &str) -> Task {
        Task {
            id: TaskId::new(id),
            context_id: ContextId::new("ctx-1"),
            status: TaskStatus::new(TaskState::Completed),
            history: None,
            artifacts: None,
            metadata: None,
        }
    }

    fn make_submitted_task(id: &str) -> Task {
        Task {
            id: TaskId::new(id),
            context_id: ContextId::new("ctx-1"),
            status: TaskStatus::new(TaskState::Submitted),
            history: None,
            artifacts: None,
            metadata: None,
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn cancel_task_not_found_returns_error() {
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        let params = CancelTaskParams {
            tenant: None,
            id: "nonexistent-task".to_owned(),
            metadata: None,
        };
        let result = handler.on_cancel_task(params, None).await;
        assert!(
            matches!(result, Err(ServerError::TaskNotFound(_))),
            "expected TaskNotFound for missing task, got: {result:?}"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn cancel_task_terminal_state_returns_not_cancelable() {
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        let task = make_completed_task("t-cancel-terminal");
        handler.task_store.save(&task).await.unwrap();

        let params = CancelTaskParams {
            tenant: None,
            id: "t-cancel-terminal".to_owned(),
            metadata: None,
        };
        let result = handler.on_cancel_task(params, None).await;
        assert!(
            matches!(result, Err(ServerError::TaskNotCancelable(_))),
            "expected TaskNotCancelable for completed task, got: {result:?}"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn cancel_task_non_terminal_succeeds() {
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(CancelableExecutor)
            .build()
            .unwrap();
        let task = make_submitted_task("t-cancel-active");
        handler.task_store.save(&task).await.unwrap();

        let params = CancelTaskParams {
            tenant: None,
            id: "t-cancel-active".to_owned(),
            metadata: None,
        };
        let result = handler.on_cancel_task(params, None).await;
        assert!(
            result.is_ok(),
            "canceling a non-terminal task should succeed, got: {result:?}"
        );
        assert_eq!(
            result.unwrap().status.state,
            TaskState::Canceled,
            "canceled task should have Canceled state"
        );
    }

    /// Regression: cancelling a persisted task that has no live event queue
    /// (e.g. an input-required task whose executor already exited) must not
    /// register a queue. `get_or_create` used to insert one that nothing ever
    /// removed — a permanent map + concurrency-slot leak keyed by task id.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn cancel_task_does_not_leak_event_queue() {
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(CancelableExecutor)
            .build()
            .unwrap();
        // A non-terminal task with no running executor / no queue.
        handler
            .task_store
            .save(&make_submitted_task("t-no-leak"))
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            handler.event_queue_manager.active_count().await,
            0,
            "precondition: no queue exists"
        );

        let params = CancelTaskParams {
            tenant: None,
            id: "t-no-leak".to_owned(),
            metadata: None,
        };
        let result = handler.on_cancel_task(params, None).await;
        assert!(result.is_ok(), "cancel should succeed, got {result:?}");
        assert_eq!(result.unwrap().status.state, TaskState::Canceled);

        assert_eq!(
            handler.event_queue_manager.active_count().await,
            0,
            "cancel must not leave a leaked event queue behind"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn cancel_task_error_path_records_metrics() {
        // Exercises the Err match arm (lines 114, 118) by triggering TaskNotFound.
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        let params = CancelTaskParams {
            tenant: None,
            id: "nonexistent-for-metrics".to_owned(),
            metadata: None,
        };
        let result = handler.on_cancel_task(params, None).await;
        assert!(
            matches!(result, Err(ServerError::TaskNotFound(_))),
            "expected TaskNotFound, got: {result:?}"
        );
        // The error metrics path (on_error + on_latency) was exercised.
    }

    /// The default `AgentExecutor::cancel` must make a WORKING task
    /// cancelable out of the box: the pre-0.7 default refused with
    /// `TaskNotCancelable` even though the handler had already triggered the
    /// cancellation token (every reference SDK requires working cancel).
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn cancel_working_task_with_default_executor_succeeds() {
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        let mut task = make_submitted_task("cancel-default-1");
        task.status = TaskStatus::new(TaskState::Working);
        handler.task_store.save(&task).await.unwrap();

        let result = handler
            .on_cancel_task(
                CancelTaskParams {
                    tenant: None,
                    id: "cancel-default-1".to_owned(),
                    metadata: None,
                },
                None,
            )
            .await
            .expect("cancel of a WORKING task must succeed with the default executor");
        assert_eq!(result.status.state, TaskState::Canceled);
    }

    type Fut<'a, T> = std::pin::Pin<
        Box<dyn std::future::Future<Output = a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult<T>> + Send + 'a>,
    >;

    /// A store whose reads are stale: every `get` reports the task `Working`,
    /// while the store underneath already holds it terminal. That is the
    /// window between the handler's re-read and its write, held open.
    struct StaleReads(crate::store::InMemoryTaskStore);

    impl crate::store::TaskStore for StaleReads {
        fn save<'a>(&'a self, t: &'a Task) -> Fut<'a, ()> {
            self.0.save(t)
        }
        fn get<'a>(&'a self, id: &'a TaskId) -> Fut<'a, Option<Task>> {
            Box::pin(async move {
                let mut task = self.0.get(id).await?;
                if let Some(t) = task.as_mut() {
                    t.status = TaskStatus::new(TaskState::Working);
                }
                Ok(task)
            })
        }
        fn list<'a>(
            &'a self,
            p: &'a a2a_protocol_types::params::ListTasksParams,
        ) -> Fut<'a, a2a_protocol_types::responses::TaskListResponse> {
            self.0.list(p)
        }
        fn insert_if_absent<'a>(&'a self, t: &'a Task) -> Fut<'a, bool> {
            self.0.insert_if_absent(t)
        }
        fn delete<'a>(&'a self, id: &'a TaskId) -> Fut<'a, ()> {
            self.0.delete(id)
        }
    }

    /// A task that finished after the handler's last read must not be
    /// overwritten with `Canceled`. The store refuses the write, and the caller
    /// is answered `TaskNotCancelable` — the spec's error for a task that is
    /// already terminal — rather than a store error or a false success.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn a_task_that_finished_after_the_re_read_is_not_cancelable() {
        use crate::store::TaskStore as _;
        let inner = crate::store::InMemoryTaskStore::new();
        inner
            .save(&make_completed_task("t-late-finish"))
            .await
            .unwrap();
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(CancelableExecutor)
            .with_task_store(StaleReads(inner))
            .build()
            .unwrap();

        let result = handler
            .on_cancel_task(
                CancelTaskParams {
                    tenant: None,
                    id: "t-late-finish".to_owned(),
                    metadata: None,
                },
                None,
            )
            .await;
        assert!(
            matches!(result, Err(ServerError::TaskNotCancelable(_))),
            "expected TaskNotCancelable, got {result:?}"
        );
    }
}