a2a_protocol_server/store/

terminal.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! Terminal states are final in the store, not only in the handler.
//!
//! # Why the store has to enforce it
//!
//! [`TaskState::can_transition_to`] already says a terminal state goes
//! nowhere, and the handler checks it — against the task *it holds in
//! memory*. With two writers that is not enough. Replica B cancels a task and
//! writes `Canceled`; replica A's executor, which never heard of the cancel,
//! emits `Completed`; A checks `Working → Completed` against its own copy,
//! finds it legal, and writes. Before this module every shipped store applied
//! that write unconditionally, so the client B had told "canceled" was looking
//! at a task that went on to end `Completed`. `tests/cross_replica_cancel.rs`
//! reproduced it on the in-memory, `SQLite` and `PostgreSQL` stores.
//!
//! The only place that sees both writes is the store, so the rule lives there,
//! and every shipped store applies it **atomically** — inside the write lock
//! for the in-memory stores, as a condition on the `UPDATE` / upsert for the
//! SQL ones — never as a read followed by a write, which would reopen the same
//! race one round trip wide.
//!
//! # The rule
//!
//! A write is refused when the stored task is terminal and the write carries a
//! different state ([`refuses_write`]). Every write path carries a state: a
//! whole-record `save` and each delta method act on a `Task`, and its
//! `status.state` is the writer's belief about where the task is. So an
//! artifact delta from an executor that still believes `Working` is refused on
//! a task stored `Canceled`, exactly as its status write would be.
//!
//! Re-writing the *same* terminal state is allowed. A local cancel reaches the
//! store twice — the handler's own `save`, and the `Canceled` event the
//! executor's `cancel` emits, persisted by the event processor — and refusing
//! the second would turn every ordinary cancel into a reported conflict. It
//! also leaves one thing open, deliberately: two writers that both reach the
//! same terminal state (two replicas that both admitted a continuation, see
//! `horizontal-scaling.md`) still race on the rest of the document. The state
//! they agree on cannot be lost; which artifacts land is last-writer-wins.
//!
//! The interrupted states, `InputRequired` and `AuthRequired`, are **not**
//! sticky: a continuation moves them back to `Working`, which is their point.
//!
//! # What the losing writer observes
//!
//! An [`A2aError`] with code `UnsupportedOperation` — the code the
//! specification gives for an operation on a task in a terminal state
//! (§3.1.1, §3.1.2, §3.1.6) — carrying a [`TerminalStateConflict`] in its
//! `data`. A typed error rather than a silent no-op, because a no-op would
//! tell a caller its write landed when it did not; that is the exact lie this
//! module exists to remove. [`TerminalStateConflict::from_error`] recognises
//! it without matching on prose. The server's own writers handle it: the event
//! processors adopt the stored state and stop, and `CancelTask` answers
//! `TaskNotCancelable`.
//!
//! # Custom stores
//!
//! A store outside this crate is not made sticky by any of this, and nothing
//! in the trait can force it to be. One that wants the guarantee applies
//! [`refuses_write`] inside its own atomic write, and reports a refusal with
//! [`TerminalStateConflict::into_error`] so the server recognises it.

use a2a_protocol_types::error::{A2aError, ErrorCode};
use a2a_protocol_types::task::{TaskId, TaskState};

/// Key in [`A2aError::data`] marking a write refused because the stored task
/// is already terminal. Prefer [`TerminalStateConflict::from_error`] over
/// matching this string.
pub const TERMINAL_STATE_CONFLICT_MARKER: &str = "terminalStateConflict";

/// Whether a write carrying `written` must be refused over a task stored in
/// `stored`.
///
/// `true` exactly when `stored` is terminal and `written` differs from it.
/// See the [module docs](self) for why the same terminal state is allowed.
#[must_use]
pub fn refuses_write(stored: TaskState, written: TaskState) -> bool {
    stored.is_terminal() && stored != written
}

/// A write the store refused because the task it names is already terminal.
///
/// `#[non_exhaustive]`: build it with [`new`](Self::new).
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub struct TerminalStateConflict {
    /// The task the refused write named.
    pub task_id: TaskId,
    /// The terminal state the store holds, and keeps.
    pub stored: TaskState,
    /// The state the refused write carried.
    pub attempted: TaskState,
}

impl TerminalStateConflict {
    /// A refusal of a write carrying `attempted` over `stored`.
    #[must_use]
    pub const fn new(task_id: TaskId, stored: TaskState, attempted: TaskState) -> Self {
        Self {
            task_id,
            stored,
            attempted,
        }
    }

    /// The error a store returns for this refusal.
    ///
    /// `UnsupportedOperation`, with this conflict in `data` under
    /// [`TERMINAL_STATE_CONFLICT_MARKER`].
    #[must_use]
    pub fn into_error(self) -> A2aError {
        A2aError::with_data(
            ErrorCode::UnsupportedOperation,
            format!(
                "task {} is in terminal state '{}'; a write of '{}' was refused",
                self.task_id, self.stored, self.attempted
            ),
            serde_json::json!({
                TERMINAL_STATE_CONFLICT_MARKER: {
                    "taskId": self.task_id.0,
                    "storedState": self.stored,
                    "attemptedState": self.attempted,
                }
            }),
        )
    }

    /// The conflict `err` reports, if it is one.
    ///
    /// `None` for every other error, including an `UnsupportedOperation` that
    /// does not carry the marker.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn from_error(err: &A2aError) -> Option<Self> {
        if err.code != ErrorCode::UnsupportedOperation {
            return None;
        }
        let body = err.data.as_ref()?.get(TERMINAL_STATE_CONFLICT_MARKER)?;
        let task_id = body.get("taskId")?.as_str()?;
        let stored = serde_json::from_value(body.get("storedState")?.clone()).ok()?;
        let attempted = serde_json::from_value(body.get("attemptedState")?.clone()).ok()?;
        Some(Self::new(TaskId::new(task_id), stored, attempted))
    }
}

impl From<TerminalStateConflict> for A2aError {
    fn from(conflict: TerminalStateConflict) -> Self {
        conflict.into_error()
    }
}

/// Appends the SQL form of [`refuses_write`]'s negation to a statement.
///
/// `sql_write_allowed!(before, column, written)` is `before` followed by
/// `(column NOT IN (<terminal states>) OR column = written)`, and an optional
/// fourth literal is appended after it. Built with `concat!` rather than a
/// runtime `format!`, so every statement using it stays a `&'static str`
/// whose prepared plan is cached. The literal list is checked against
/// [`terminal_states`](crate::store::terminal_states) by a test, so it cannot
/// drift from the enum.
#[cfg(any(feature = "sqlite", feature = "postgres"))]
macro_rules! sql_write_allowed {
    ($before:literal, $column:literal, $written:literal $(, $after:literal)?) => {
        concat!(
            $before,
            "(",
            $column,
            " NOT IN ('TASK_STATE_COMPLETED', 'TASK_STATE_FAILED', \
             'TASK_STATE_CANCELED', 'TASK_STATE_REJECTED') OR ",
            $column,
            " = ",
            $written,
            ")"
            $(, $after)?
        )
    };
}
#[cfg(any(feature = "sqlite", feature = "postgres"))]
pub(crate) use sql_write_allowed;

/// [`sql_write_allowed!`] over `state`, cut open before the written value, for
/// statements assembled at run time by a `QueryBuilder`: push this, bind the
/// written state, then push the closing `)`.
#[cfg(feature = "sqlite")]
pub(crate) const SQL_STATE_NOT_TERMINAL_OR_EQUALS: &str = "(state NOT IN \
     ('TASK_STATE_COMPLETED', 'TASK_STATE_FAILED', 'TASK_STATE_CANCELED', 'TASK_STATE_REJECTED') \
     OR state = ";

/// Parses a `state` column value back into a [`TaskState`].
#[cfg(any(feature = "sqlite", feature = "postgres"))]
pub(crate) fn parse_state_column(value: &str) -> A2aResult<TaskState> {
    serde_json::from_value(serde_json::Value::String(value.to_owned())).map_err(|e| {
        A2aError::internal(format!(
            "stored task has an unreadable state {value:?}: {e}"
        ))
    })
}

/// The error for a guarded SQL write of `task` that changed nothing, given
/// the `state` column read back afterwards.
///
/// `None` means the row is gone as well — deleted between the refused write
/// and the read, which only a retention sweep does, and only to terminal
/// tasks. That is reported as an internal error rather than retried: the
/// retry would re-create a task the operator's retention policy just removed.
#[cfg(any(feature = "sqlite", feature = "postgres"))]
pub(crate) fn refusal(task: &Task, stored: Option<&str>) -> A2aError {
    match stored.map(parse_state_column) {
        Some(Ok(stored)) => {
            TerminalStateConflict::new(task.id.clone(), stored, task.status.state).into_error()
        }
        Some(Err(e)) => e,
        None => A2aError::internal(format!(
            "a write of task {} changed nothing, and the task is no longer stored",
            task.id
        )),
    }
}

#[cfg(any(feature = "sqlite", feature = "postgres"))]
use a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult;
#[cfg(any(feature = "sqlite", feature = "postgres"))]
use a2a_protocol_types::task::Task;

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

    const EVERY_STATE: [TaskState; 9] = [
        TaskState::Unspecified,
        TaskState::Submitted,
        TaskState::Working,
        TaskState::InputRequired,
        TaskState::AuthRequired,
        TaskState::Completed,
        TaskState::Failed,
        TaskState::Canceled,
        TaskState::Rejected,
    ];

    #[test]
    fn a_terminal_state_refuses_every_other_state_and_accepts_itself() {
        for stored in EVERY_STATE {
            for written in EVERY_STATE {
                assert_eq!(
                    refuses_write(stored, written),
                    stored.is_terminal() && stored != written,
                    "{stored} <- {written}"
                );
            }
        }
        // The two the module docs single out.
        assert!(refuses_write(TaskState::Canceled, TaskState::Completed));
        assert!(!refuses_write(TaskState::Canceled, TaskState::Canceled));
        assert!(
            !refuses_write(TaskState::InputRequired, TaskState::Working),
            "interrupted states are not sticky"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_error_round_trips_and_nothing_else_matches() {
        let conflict = TerminalStateConflict::new(
            TaskId::new("t-1"),
            TaskState::Canceled,
            TaskState::Completed,
        );
        let err = conflict.clone().into_error();
        assert_eq!(err.code, ErrorCode::UnsupportedOperation);
        assert!(err.message.contains("t-1"), "{}", err.message);
        assert_eq!(
            TerminalStateConflict::from_error(&err),
            Some(conflict.clone())
        );
        assert_eq!(
            TerminalStateConflict::from_error(&A2aError::from(conflict.clone())),
            Some(conflict)
        );

        assert_eq!(
            TerminalStateConflict::from_error(&A2aError::unsupported_operation("x")),
            None,
            "the code alone is not the marker"
        );
        let mut wrong_code = err.clone();
        wrong_code.code = ErrorCode::InternalError;
        assert_eq!(
            TerminalStateConflict::from_error(&wrong_code),
            None,
            "the marker under another code is not this refusal"
        );
        let mut garbled = err;
        garbled.data = Some(serde_json::json!({
            TERMINAL_STATE_CONFLICT_MARKER: {"taskId": "t", "storedState": "nope", "attemptedState": "TASK_STATE_WORKING"}
        }));
        assert_eq!(TerminalStateConflict::from_error(&garbled), None);
    }

    #[cfg(any(feature = "sqlite", feature = "postgres"))]
    #[test]
    fn the_sql_list_is_the_terminal_states() {
        let sql = sql_write_allowed!("WHERE ", "state", "?1");
        for state in EVERY_STATE {
            assert_eq!(
                sql.contains(&format!("'{state}'")),
                state.is_terminal(),
                "{state} in {sql}"
            );
        }
        assert_eq!(
            crate::store::retention::terminal_state_labels().len(),
            4,
            "a new terminal state must be added to the SQL list above"
        );
        assert!(sql.starts_with("WHERE (state NOT IN ("), "{sql}");
        assert!(sql.ends_with("OR state = ?1)"), "{sql}");
        assert!(
            sql_write_allowed!("", "s", "?2", " AND x").ends_with("OR s = ?2) AND x"),
            "the trailing literal is appended"
        );
        #[cfg(feature = "sqlite")]
        assert_eq!(
            format!("{SQL_STATE_NOT_TERMINAL_OR_EQUALS}?1)"),
            sql_write_allowed!("", "state", "?1"),
            "the run-time form must be the macro's, cut open"
        );
    }

    #[cfg(any(feature = "sqlite", feature = "postgres"))]
    #[test]
    fn state_columns_parse_and_garbage_is_an_error() {
        assert_eq!(
            parse_state_column("TASK_STATE_CANCELED").ok(),
            Some(TaskState::Canceled)
        );
        assert!(parse_state_column("BOGUS").is_err());
    }

    #[cfg(any(feature = "sqlite", feature = "postgres"))]
    #[test]
    fn a_refusal_names_the_stored_state_or_says_the_row_is_gone() {
        let task = Task {
            id: TaskId::new("t-r"),
            context_id: a2a_protocol_types::task::ContextId::new("c"),
            status: a2a_protocol_types::task::TaskStatus::new(TaskState::Completed),
            history: None,
            artifacts: None,
            metadata: None,
        };
        assert_eq!(
            TerminalStateConflict::from_error(&refusal(&task, Some("TASK_STATE_CANCELED"))),
            Some(TerminalStateConflict::new(
                TaskId::new("t-r"),
                TaskState::Canceled,
                TaskState::Completed
            ))
        );
        let gone = refusal(&task, None);
        assert_eq!(gone.code, ErrorCode::InternalError);
        assert!(gone.message.contains("t-r"), "{}", gone.message);
        assert_eq!(refusal(&task, Some("BOGUS")).code, ErrorCode::InternalError);
    }
}