a2a_protocol_server/handler/limits/mod.rs
1// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
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3//
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5
6//! Configurable limits for [`super::RequestHandler`].
7
8use std::time::Duration;
9
10/// Configurable limits for the request handler.
11///
12/// All fields have sensible defaults. Create with [`HandlerLimits::default()`]
13/// and override individual values as needed.
14///
15/// # Example
16///
17/// ```rust
18/// use a2a_protocol_server::handler::HandlerLimits;
19///
20/// let limits = HandlerLimits::default()
21/// .with_max_id_length(2048)
22/// .with_max_metadata_size(2 * 1024 * 1024);
23/// ```
24///
25/// `#[non_exhaustive]`: build it with [`Default`] and the `with_*` setters,
26/// which cover every field; a struct literal is not available outside this
27/// crate, so a field added later does not break callers.
28#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
29#[non_exhaustive]
30pub struct HandlerLimits {
31 /// Maximum allowed length for task/context IDs. Default: 1024.
32 ///
33 /// `message.id` is bounded too, but never below
34 /// [`MIN_MESSAGE_ID_LENGTH`] — see
35 /// [`effective_max_message_id_length`](Self::effective_max_message_id_length)
36 /// for why it cannot simply share this number.
37 pub max_id_length: usize,
38 /// Maximum allowed serialized size for metadata fields in bytes. Default: 1 MiB.
39 pub max_metadata_size: usize,
40 /// Maximum cancellation token map entries before cleanup sweep. Default: 10,000.
41 ///
42 /// A sweep threshold, not a hard bound: the sweep only evicts cancelled
43 /// or aged-out entries whose executor is gone — a token belonging to a
44 /// live task is never removed, so with more than this many tasks
45 /// genuinely in flight the map tracks the in-flight count instead.
46 pub max_cancellation_tokens: usize,
47 /// Maximum age for cancellation tokens. Default: 1 hour.
48 pub max_token_age: Duration,
49 /// Timeout for individual push webhook deliveries. Default: 5 seconds.
50 ///
51 /// Bounds how long the handler waits for a single push notification delivery
52 /// to complete, preventing one slow webhook from blocking all subsequent
53 /// deliveries.
54 ///
55 /// # This is a total, and the sender's retries have to fit inside it
56 ///
57 /// The bound covers the whole [`PushSender::send`] call, retries included —
58 /// not one HTTP request. A sender whose own schedule is longer never
59 /// finishes it, and the attempts it advertises simply do not happen.
60 ///
61 /// **The shipped defaults contradict each other.** `HttpPushSender::new()`
62 /// is three attempts at a 30-second request timeout with `[1s, 2s]`
63 /// backoff after a 5-second DNS bound — 98 seconds — against this
64 /// 5-second bound. Measured
65 /// 2026-08-19 against a real socket: **one of the three attempts reaches
66 /// the webhook, and the bound fires at 5.001s.** So `max_attempts` and
67 /// `backoff` are, at the defaults, configuration that cannot take effect.
68 ///
69 /// The two numbers pull in opposite directions and neither is obviously
70 /// wrong. Raising this bound to fit the retries makes the 30-second
71 /// per-event budget in `deliver_push_bg` reachable by a single config,
72 /// which is the amplification ceiling that budget exists to hold.
73 /// Shrinking the sender's schedule to fit gives real webhooks less time
74 /// than a slow one legitimately needs. Choosing between them is a
75 /// deployment decision, so this documents the arithmetic rather than
76 /// picking:
77 ///
78 /// ```text
79 /// attempts_that_run == 1 + how many whole (request_timeout + backoff)
80 /// cycles fit in push_delivery_timeout
81 /// ```
82 ///
83 /// A sender that reports [`PushSender::max_delivery_duration`] gets the
84 /// truncation counted rather than mistaken for a slow endpoint — see
85 /// [`push_outcome::TIMEOUT_TRUNCATED`](crate::metrics::push_outcome::TIMEOUT_TRUNCATED).
86 ///
87 /// [`PushSender::send`]: crate::push::PushSender::send
88 /// [`PushSender::max_delivery_duration`]: crate::push::PushSender::max_delivery_duration
89 pub push_delivery_timeout: Duration,
90 /// Total time one event's push deliveries may take, across every
91 /// registered config. Default: 30 seconds.
92 ///
93 /// This is the amplification ceiling: a task with `max_push_configs_per_task`
94 /// webhooks that all time out would otherwise spend `configs x
95 /// push_delivery_timeout x attempts` per event. Deliveries run one after
96 /// another, so the configs an event reaches is
97 /// `min(configs, push_delivery_budget / push_delivery_timeout)`; the rest
98 /// are counted as [`push_outcome::SKIPPED`](crate::metrics::push_outcome::SKIPPED).
99 /// On the blocking send path the same budget covers the whole batch of
100 /// events a request produced, not each event, because that delivery is
101 /// spawned once per request.
102 ///
103 /// Until 0.12 this was a `Duration::from_secs(30)` literal in two places
104 /// and the term deciding which webhooks were called was not a knob.
105 pub push_delivery_budget: Duration,
106 /// How long the blocking send path waits, after the executor has
107 /// finished, for the event queue to close. Default: 5 seconds.
108 ///
109 /// Once the executor returns, everything it wrote is already buffered and
110 /// is drained immediately; the only thing left to wait for is the
111 /// queue closing, which `EventQueueManager::destroy` does from the cleanup
112 /// guard's `Drop`. An executor that returns without reaching a terminal
113 /// or interrupted state, on a queue that never closes, used to hold the
114 /// blocking `SendMessage` open forever. When this bound elapses the
115 /// response is the task as collected so far, exactly what a closed queue
116 /// would have produced, and
117 /// [`Metrics::on_error`](crate::metrics::Metrics::on_error) is called with
118 /// `error_kind = "executor_drain_timeout"`.
119 pub executor_drain_timeout: Duration,
120 /// Maximum number of artifacts per task. Default: 1000.
121 ///
122 /// Prevents unbounded memory growth and O(n²) serialization cost when
123 /// executors emit many artifacts. Once the limit is reached, new artifact
124 /// updates are rejected.
125 pub max_artifacts_per_task: usize,
126 /// Maximum number of per-context locks before cleanup. Default: 10,000.
127 ///
128 /// Context locks serialize concurrent `SendMessage` requests for the same
129 /// `context_id`. Stale entries (where no other reference is held) are
130 /// pruned when this limit is reached. Like
131 /// [`max_cancellation_tokens`](Self::max_cancellation_tokens) this is a
132 /// prune threshold, not a hard bound — entries currently held by
133 /// in-flight requests are never pruned.
134 pub max_context_locks: usize,
135 /// Maximum number of push notification configs per task. Default: 100.
136 ///
137 /// Enforced by the handler on `CreateTaskPushNotificationConfig` so the cap
138 /// applies uniformly across **all** store backends. Without it, the SQL
139 /// stores (which do not self-enforce) let a client mint unbounded configs
140 /// for a single task — a disk-exhaustion vector, and a delivery-amplification
141 /// vector since every stream event fans out to all of a task's configs.
142 /// Updating an existing config (same id) does not count against the cap.
143 pub max_push_configs_per_task: usize,
144 /// Maximum number of parts a single artifact may accumulate. Default:
145 /// 10,000.
146 ///
147 /// `max_artifacts_per_task` bounds the artifact *count*, but a stream of
148 /// `TaskArtifactUpdateEvent`s with `append: true` grows one artifact's
149 /// `parts` without bound. Since executors routinely stream model output
150 /// derived from attacker-influenced prompts, this bounds the cumulative
151 /// per-artifact (and thus per-task) size. Appends that would exceed the cap
152 /// are dropped.
153 pub max_parts_per_artifact: usize,
154 /// Global ceiling on the total number of push configs a store may hold
155 /// (per-tenant for tenant-scoped stores). Default: 100,000.
156 ///
157 /// Complements `max_push_configs_per_task`: the per-task cap alone lets a
158 /// client mint configs for unboundedly many *distinct* task ids (100 each),
159 /// growing a SQL-backed table without limit. Enforced whenever the store
160 /// reports a count (see [`PushConfigStore::count`](crate::push::PushConfigStore::count));
161 /// stores that do not report one are unaffected.
162 pub max_total_push_configs: usize,
163 /// How often a `SubscribeToTask` stream re-checks whether its task has
164 /// finished, once the current turn's event queue has closed. Default: 250ms.
165 ///
166 /// A task's queue lives only as long as one executor invocation, so an
167 /// agent that parks a task in `input_required` closes the queue at every
168 /// turn boundary. Spec §3.1.6 requires the stream to run until a
169 /// **terminal** state, so it waits here for the next turn rather than
170 /// ending. Only an idle stream pays this cost — a live queue delivers
171 /// events immediately.
172 pub subscribe_reattach_interval: Duration,
173 /// How long a `SubscribeToTask` stream waits for a parked task to make
174 /// progress before ending. Default: 5 minutes.
175 ///
176 /// Without a bound, a task left in `input_required` forever would pin a
177 /// connection forever. Ending the stream is safe: §3.5.2 makes
178 /// reconnection an expected flow, and the client gets a fresh snapshot
179 /// when it resubscribes.
180 pub subscribe_max_idle: Duration,
181 /// How many logged events a resuming `SubscribeToTask` replays at most.
182 /// Default: 1,000.
183 ///
184 /// A client reconnecting with `Last-Event-ID` is sent what it missed,
185 /// read from the task's event log. The bound matters because the offset
186 /// is client-supplied: `Last-Event-ID: 0` on a long-running task asks for
187 /// the whole history, and without a cap that is an unbounded read and an
188 /// unbounded burst of frames on one connection.
189 ///
190 /// Truncation is not silent data loss. Every replayed frame carries its
191 /// own `id:`, so a client that receives the cap's worth reconnects at the
192 /// last one and continues — the replay is resumable by the same mechanism
193 /// that started it.
194 pub subscribe_replay_limit: usize,
195 /// How long a resuming `SubscribeToTask` waits for the task's event log to
196 /// catch up with what has already been broadcast. Default: 2 seconds.
197 ///
198 /// Events reach the log through the background processor, so a position
199 /// can have been broadcast to live subscribers before it has been
200 /// appended. A resubscribe attaches its broadcast receiver first and reads
201 /// the log second; without this wait, a position broadcast just before the
202 /// receiver existed and appended just after the log was read appears in
203 /// neither, and the subscriber loses it with no gap it could detect.
204 ///
205 /// The wait is bounded because the processor can be slow for reasons that
206 /// are not this subscriber's problem — a registered webhook is delivered
207 /// inline, under `push_delivery_budget`. On expiry the replay is served
208 /// with what the log does hold and the shortfall is logged and counted
209 /// under the `event_log_catchup` persistence-error label, rather than
210 /// being passed off as a complete history.
211 ///
212 /// Zero disables the wait.
213 pub subscribe_replay_catchup: Duration,
214}
215
216impl Default for HandlerLimits {
217 fn default() -> Self {
218 Self {
219 max_id_length: 1024,
220 max_metadata_size: 1_048_576,
221 max_cancellation_tokens: 10_000,
222 max_token_age: Duration::from_secs(3600),
223 push_delivery_timeout: Duration::from_secs(5),
224 push_delivery_budget: Duration::from_secs(30),
225 executor_drain_timeout: Duration::from_secs(5),
226 max_artifacts_per_task: 1000,
227 max_context_locks: 10_000,
228 max_push_configs_per_task: 100,
229 max_parts_per_artifact: 10_000,
230 max_total_push_configs: 100_000,
231 subscribe_reattach_interval: Duration::from_millis(250),
232 subscribe_max_idle: Duration::from_secs(300),
233 subscribe_replay_limit: 1_000,
234 subscribe_replay_catchup: Duration::from_secs(2),
235 }
236 }
237}
238
239/// The smallest bound `message.id` may be held to: the length of a hyphenated
240/// UUID.
241///
242/// A2A requires `messageId` on every message, and a v4 UUID is what this
243/// SDK's own documentation tells a caller to use — `Message::id`'s rustdoc
244/// says so, and every example does it. 36 characters is therefore not a
245/// preference, it is the smallest id a conformant client actually sends.
246pub const MIN_MESSAGE_ID_LENGTH: usize = 36;
247
248impl HandlerLimits {
249 /// The bound `message.id` is actually held to: never below
250 /// [`MIN_MESSAGE_ID_LENGTH`].
251 ///
252 /// # Why this is not just [`max_id_length`](Self::max_id_length)
253 ///
254 /// It was, for one release, and that was a defect. `context_id` and
255 /// `task_id` are commonly short and often chosen by the deployment;
256 /// `message.id` is minted by the client and is conventionally a UUID. A
257 /// deployment tightening `max_id_length` to anything under 36 — which is
258 /// a reasonable thing to do for the two ids it was documented to cover —
259 /// then rejected *every* message from a conformant client, including
260 /// every one this SDK's own examples send.
261 ///
262 /// Caught by `examples/incident-response`'s handler-limits check, which
263 /// sets `max_id_length` to 32 and asserts that an id within the bound is
264 /// accepted. It failed on a 36-character UUID, which is exactly the
265 /// report an adopter would have filed.
266 ///
267 /// The clamp rather than a separate knob, for the same reason
268 /// `effective_batch_size` floors a zero batch: an operator tightening a
269 /// bound should not have to know that one identifier has a protocol-
270 /// imposed floor, and a configuration that cannot serve a conformant
271 /// client is not one worth honouring exactly.
272 ///
273 /// Spelled as a saturating offset from the floor rather than the
274 /// `self.max_id_length > MIN_MESSAGE_ID_LENGTH` it reads as, for the
275 /// reason `mutants.toml` records for `InMemoryTaskStore::evict`: `>`
276 /// mutates to `>=`, and at exactly the floor both arms return the same
277 /// number, so the weakened operator is an *equivalent* mutant that no
278 /// test can kill. The arithmetic below has no such form —
279 /// `saturating_sub` is 0 at or below the floor, which lands the sum on
280 /// the floor, and is the excess above it otherwise. Reported by the
281 /// incremental mutation gate on this pull request (shard 1 of run
282 /// 35523981742); the fix is the spelling, not the logic.
283 #[must_use]
284 pub const fn effective_max_message_id_length(&self) -> usize {
285 MIN_MESSAGE_ID_LENGTH + self.max_id_length.saturating_sub(MIN_MESSAGE_ID_LENGTH)
286 }
287
288 /// Sets how often an idle `SubscribeToTask` stream re-checks its task.
289 #[must_use]
290 pub const fn with_subscribe_reattach_interval(mut self, interval: Duration) -> Self {
291 self.subscribe_reattach_interval = interval;
292 self
293 }
294
295 /// Sets how long a `SubscribeToTask` stream waits on a parked task.
296 #[must_use]
297 pub const fn with_subscribe_max_idle(mut self, max_idle: Duration) -> Self {
298 self.subscribe_max_idle = max_idle;
299 self
300 }
301
302 /// Sets how many logged events a resuming `SubscribeToTask` replays.
303 #[must_use]
304 pub const fn with_subscribe_replay_limit(mut self, limit: usize) -> Self {
305 self.subscribe_replay_limit = limit;
306 self
307 }
308
309 /// Sets how long a resuming `SubscribeToTask` waits for the event log to
310 /// catch up with what has already been broadcast. Zero disables the wait.
311 #[must_use]
312 pub const fn with_subscribe_replay_catchup(mut self, catchup: Duration) -> Self {
313 self.subscribe_replay_catchup = catchup;
314 self
315 }
316
317 /// Sets the maximum allowed length for task/context IDs.
318 #[must_use]
319 pub const fn with_max_id_length(mut self, length: usize) -> Self {
320 self.max_id_length = length;
321 self
322 }
323
324 /// Sets the maximum serialized size for metadata fields in bytes.
325 #[must_use]
326 pub const fn with_max_metadata_size(mut self, size: usize) -> Self {
327 self.max_metadata_size = size;
328 self
329 }
330
331 /// Sets the maximum cancellation token map entries before cleanup.
332 #[must_use]
333 pub const fn with_max_cancellation_tokens(mut self, max: usize) -> Self {
334 self.max_cancellation_tokens = max;
335 self
336 }
337
338 /// Sets the maximum age for cancellation tokens.
339 #[must_use]
340 pub const fn with_max_token_age(mut self, age: Duration) -> Self {
341 self.max_token_age = age;
342 self
343 }
344
345 /// Sets the timeout for individual push webhook deliveries.
346 #[must_use]
347 pub const fn with_push_delivery_timeout(mut self, timeout: Duration) -> Self {
348 self.push_delivery_timeout = timeout;
349 self
350 }
351
352 /// Sets the total push-delivery budget per event (per request batch on
353 /// the blocking path). See [`push_delivery_budget`](Self::push_delivery_budget).
354 #[must_use]
355 pub const fn with_push_delivery_budget(mut self, budget: Duration) -> Self {
356 self.push_delivery_budget = budget;
357 self
358 }
359
360 /// Sets how long the blocking send path waits for the event queue to
361 /// close after the executor finished. See
362 /// [`executor_drain_timeout`](Self::executor_drain_timeout).
363 #[must_use]
364 pub const fn with_executor_drain_timeout(mut self, timeout: Duration) -> Self {
365 self.executor_drain_timeout = timeout;
366 self
367 }
368
369 /// Sets the maximum number of artifacts per task.
370 #[must_use]
371 pub const fn with_max_artifacts_per_task(mut self, max: usize) -> Self {
372 self.max_artifacts_per_task = max;
373 self
374 }
375
376 /// Sets the maximum number of push notification configs per task.
377 #[must_use]
378 pub const fn with_max_push_configs_per_task(mut self, max: usize) -> Self {
379 self.max_push_configs_per_task = max;
380 self
381 }
382
383 /// Sets the global (per-tenant for tenant stores) ceiling on total push
384 /// notification configs. Enforced only when the store reports a count.
385 #[must_use]
386 pub const fn with_max_total_push_configs(mut self, max: usize) -> Self {
387 self.max_total_push_configs = max;
388 self
389 }
390
391 /// Sets the maximum number of parts a single artifact may accumulate.
392 #[must_use]
393 pub const fn with_max_parts_per_artifact(mut self, max: usize) -> Self {
394 self.max_parts_per_artifact = max;
395 self
396 }
397
398 /// Sets the maximum number of per-context locks before cleanup.
399 #[must_use]
400 pub const fn with_max_context_locks(mut self, max: usize) -> Self {
401 self.max_context_locks = max;
402 self
403 }
404}
405
406#[cfg(test)]
407mod tests;