a2a_protocol_server/handler/lifecycle/

list_tasks.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! `ListTasks` handler — paginated task listing with filters.

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

use a2a_protocol_types::params::ListTasksParams;
use a2a_protocol_types::responses::TaskListResponse;

use crate::error::ServerResult;

use super::super::RequestHandler;
use super::super::helpers::{build_call_context, truncate_history};

impl RequestHandler {
    /// Handles `ListTasks`.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns a [`ServerError`](crate::error::ServerError) if the store query fails.
    #[allow(clippy::too_many_lines)]
    pub async fn on_list_tasks(
        &self,
        params: ListTasksParams,
        headers: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
    ) -> ServerResult<TaskListResponse> {
        let start = Instant::now();
        trace_info!(method = "ListTasks", "handling list tasks");
        self.metrics.on_request("ListTasks");

        let tenant = self
            .resolve_tenant("ListTasks", headers, params.tenant.as_deref())
            .await?;
        // Clamp page_size at the handler level to prevent oversized allocations.
        let mut params = params;
        if let Some(ps) = params.page_size {
            params.page_size = Some(ps.min(1000));
        }
        // Validate statusTimestampAfter up front so every store backend sees
        // a well-formed value; a malformed timestamp is a client error, not
        // an empty result set.
        if let Some(ref after) = params.status_timestamp_after
            && a2a_protocol_types::parse_iso8601_to_unix_millis(after).is_none()
        {
            let err = crate::error::ServerError::InvalidParams(format!(
                "statusTimestampAfter is not a valid ISO 8601 timestamp: {after:?}"
            ));
            self.metrics.on_error("ListTasks", err.metric_label());
            self.metrics.on_latency("ListTasks", start.elapsed());
            return Err(err);
        }
        let history_length = params.history_length;
        let include_artifacts = params.include_artifacts;
        let result: ServerResult<_> = crate::store::tenant::TenantContext::scope(tenant, async {
            let call_ctx = build_call_context("ListTasks", 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 mut result = self.task_store.list(&params).await?;

                // Apply historyLength: truncate each task's history to the
                // requested number of most recent messages. 0 means "no history".
                if let Some(hl) = history_length {
                    for task in &mut result.tasks {
                        task.history = truncate_history(task.history.take(), hl);
                    }
                }

                // Per Section 3.1.4: when includeArtifacts is false (default),
                // the artifacts field MUST be omitted entirely from each Task.
                if !include_artifacts.unwrap_or(false) {
                    for task in &mut result.tasks {
                        task.artifacts = None;
                    }
                }

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

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

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

    use crate::agent_executor;
    use crate::builder::RequestHandlerBuilder;

    struct DummyExecutor;
    agent_executor!(DummyExecutor, |_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,
        }
    }

    /// A task carrying `len` history messages, oldest first, each identifiable
    /// by its text as `message 0`, `message 1`, …
    fn make_task_with_history(id: &str, len: usize) -> Task {
        use a2a_protocol_types::message::{Message, MessageId, MessageRole, Part};
        let mut task = make_completed_task(id);
        task.history = Some(
            (0..len)
                .map(|i| Message {
                    id: MessageId::new(format!("{id}-m{i}")),
                    role: MessageRole::User,
                    parts: vec![Part::text(format!("message {i}"))],
                    context_id: None,
                    task_id: None,
                    reference_task_ids: None,
                    extensions: None,
                    metadata: None,
                })
                .collect(),
        );
        task
    }

    /// The history texts of the listed task with `id`, or `None` if the task
    /// came back with its history omitted.
    ///
    /// Looks the task up by id rather than trusting the page order, so these
    /// assertions cannot pass by accident when the store's ordering changes.
    fn history_texts(resp: &TaskListResponse, id: &str) -> Option<Vec<String>> {
        let task = resp
            .tasks
            .iter()
            .find(|t| t.id.0 == id)
            .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("task {id} missing from the listing"));
        task.history.as_ref().map(|msgs: &Vec<_>| {
            msgs.iter()
                .map(|m| {
                    m.parts
                        .iter()
                        .find_map(a2a_protocol_types::message::Part::text_content)
                        .unwrap_or_default()
                        .to_owned()
                })
                .collect()
        })
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn list_tasks_empty_store_returns_empty() {
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        let params = ListTasksParams::default();
        let result = handler
            .on_list_tasks(params, None)
            .await
            .expect("list_tasks should succeed on empty store");
        assert!(
            result.tasks.is_empty(),
            "listing tasks on an empty store should return an empty list"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn list_tasks_returns_saved_task() {
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        let task = make_completed_task("t-list-1");
        handler.task_store.save(&task).await.unwrap();

        let params = ListTasksParams::default();
        let result = handler
            .on_list_tasks(params, None)
            .await
            .expect("list_tasks should succeed");
        assert_eq!(result.tasks.len(), 1, "should return the one saved task");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn list_tasks_invalid_status_timestamp_after_is_invalid_params() {
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        let params = ListTasksParams {
            status_timestamp_after: Some("not-a-timestamp".into()),
            ..Default::default()
        };
        let err = handler
            .on_list_tasks(params, None)
            .await
            .expect_err("malformed statusTimestampAfter must be rejected");
        assert!(
            matches!(err, crate::error::ServerError::InvalidParams(ref m) if m.contains("statusTimestampAfter")),
            "expected InvalidParams naming the field, got {err:?}"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn list_tasks_status_timestamp_after_filters_results() {
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        let mut old_task = make_completed_task("t-old");
        old_task.status.timestamp = Some("2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z".into());
        let mut new_task = make_completed_task("t-new");
        new_task.status.timestamp = Some("2026-01-03T00:00:00.000Z".into());
        handler.task_store.save(&old_task).await.unwrap();
        handler.task_store.save(&new_task).await.unwrap();

        let params = ListTasksParams {
            status_timestamp_after: Some("2026-01-02T00:00:00.000Z".into()),
            ..Default::default()
        };
        let result = handler
            .on_list_tasks(params, None)
            .await
            .expect("filtered list must succeed");
        let ids: Vec<&str> = result.tasks.iter().map(|t| t.id.0.as_str()).collect();
        assert_eq!(ids, vec!["t-new"], "only strictly-after tasks are returned");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn list_tasks_with_tenant() {
        // Covers line 32: tenant scoping with non-default tenant.
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        let params = ListTasksParams {
            tenant: Some("test-tenant".to_string()),
            ..Default::default()
        };
        let result = handler
            .on_list_tasks(params, None)
            .await
            .expect("list_tasks with tenant should succeed");
        assert_eq!(result.tasks, [] as [a2a_protocol_types::Task; 0]);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn list_tasks_with_headers() {
        // Covers line 34: build_call_context with headers.
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        let params = ListTasksParams::default();
        let mut headers = std::collections::HashMap::new();
        headers.insert("authorization".to_string(), "Bearer tok".to_string());
        let result = handler
            .on_list_tasks(params, Some(&headers))
            .await
            .expect("list_tasks with headers should succeed");
        assert_eq!(result.tasks, [] as [a2a_protocol_types::Task; 0]);
    }

    // ── historyLength ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
    //
    // Ten mutants survived in this file in the 2026-08-07 sweep, all of them
    // inside the truncation block. Nothing here set `historyLength` and every
    // fixture task had `history: None`, so the block was never entered — the
    // arithmetic went entirely unobserved. The truncation itself now lives in
    // `helpers::truncate_history` and is unit-tested there; these tests exist
    // for the half mutation testing cannot see. No mutation operator deletes a
    // call, so a handler that simply stopped truncating would score a clean
    // sweep. Each test below asserts through `on_list_tasks`.
    //
    // Every case saves two tasks. `ListTasks` applies the truncation in a loop,
    // and a handler that shaped only the first task of a page would satisfy
    // any single-task assertion.

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn list_tasks_history_length_zero_omits_history_from_every_task() {
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        handler
            .task_store
            .save(&make_task_with_history("t-hl0-a", 5))
            .await
            .unwrap();
        handler
            .task_store
            .save(&make_task_with_history("t-hl0-b", 5))
            .await
            .unwrap();

        let params = ListTasksParams {
            history_length: Some(0),
            ..Default::default()
        };
        let resp = handler.on_list_tasks(params, None).await.unwrap();

        // Omitted, not emptied: `Some([])` would be a different wire payload.
        assert_eq!(history_texts(&resp, "t-hl0-a"), None);
        assert_eq!(history_texts(&resp, "t-hl0-b"), None);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn list_tasks_history_length_keeps_the_most_recent_for_every_task() {
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        handler
            .task_store
            .save(&make_task_with_history("t-hl2-a", 5))
            .await
            .unwrap();
        handler
            .task_store
            .save(&make_task_with_history("t-hl2-b", 5))
            .await
            .unwrap();

        let params = ListTasksParams {
            history_length: Some(2),
            ..Default::default()
        };
        let resp = handler.on_list_tasks(params, None).await.unwrap();

        // The two *newest* of five. Asserting the texts rather than the count
        // is what separates this from keeping `message 0` and `message 1`.
        let expected = Some(vec!["message 3".to_owned(), "message 4".to_owned()]);
        assert_eq!(history_texts(&resp, "t-hl2-a"), expected);
        assert_eq!(history_texts(&resp, "t-hl2-b"), expected);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn list_tasks_history_length_above_the_length_returns_all() {
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        handler
            .task_store
            .save(&make_task_with_history("t-hlbig-a", 3))
            .await
            .unwrap();
        handler
            .task_store
            .save(&make_task_with_history("t-hlbig-b", 3))
            .await
            .unwrap();

        let params = ListTasksParams {
            history_length: Some(100),
            ..Default::default()
        };
        let resp = handler.on_list_tasks(params, None).await.unwrap();

        let all = Some(vec![
            "message 0".to_owned(),
            "message 1".to_owned(),
            "message 2".to_owned(),
        ]);
        assert_eq!(history_texts(&resp, "t-hlbig-a"), all);
        assert_eq!(history_texts(&resp, "t-hlbig-b"), all);
    }

    /// No `historyLength` at all leaves history untouched — which is *not*
    /// what `historyLength: 0` does.
    ///
    /// This is the only test that pins the outer `if let`. Without it a
    /// handler that truncated unconditionally, treating absent as zero, would
    /// pass every other case here while silently dropping history from every
    /// unfiltered `ListTasks` response.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn list_tasks_without_history_length_leaves_history_intact() {
        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor).build().unwrap();
        handler
            .task_store
            .save(&make_task_with_history("t-hlnone", 3))
            .await
            .unwrap();

        let params = ListTasksParams::default();
        let resp = handler.on_list_tasks(params, None).await.unwrap();

        assert_eq!(
            history_texts(&resp, "t-hlnone"),
            Some(vec![
                "message 0".to_owned(),
                "message 1".to_owned(),
                "message 2".to_owned(),
            ]),
            "absent historyLength must not be treated as 0"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn list_tasks_error_path_records_metrics() {
        // Use an interceptor that always fails to trigger the error metrics path (lines 48-51).
        use crate::call_context::CallContext;
        use crate::interceptor::ServerInterceptor;
        use std::future::Future;
        use std::pin::Pin;

        struct FailInterceptor;
        impl ServerInterceptor for FailInterceptor {
            fn before<'a>(
                &'a self,
                _ctx: &'a CallContext,
            ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>>
            {
                Box::pin(async {
                    Err(a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError::internal(
                        "forced failure",
                    ))
                })
            }
            fn after<'a>(
                &'a self,
                _ctx: &'a CallContext,
            ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>>
            {
                Box::pin(async { Ok(()) })
            }
        }

        let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(DummyExecutor)
            .with_interceptor(FailInterceptor)
            .build()
            .unwrap();

        let params = ListTasksParams::default();
        let result = handler.on_list_tasks(params, None).await;
        assert!(
            result.is_err(),
            "list_tasks should fail when interceptor rejects, got: {result:?}"
        );
    }
}