a2a_protocol_server/

serve.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! Server startup helpers.
//!
//! Reduces the ~25 lines of hyper boilerplate typically needed to start an
//! A2A HTTP server down to a single function call.
//!
//! # Example
//!
//! ```rust,no_run
//! use std::sync::Arc;
//! use a2a_protocol_server::serve::serve;
//! use a2a_protocol_server::dispatch::JsonRpcDispatcher;
//! use a2a_protocol_server::RequestHandlerBuilder;
//! # struct MyExecutor;
//! # impl a2a_protocol_server::executor::AgentExecutor for MyExecutor {
//! #     fn execute<'a>(&'a self, _ctx: &'a a2a_protocol_server::request_context::RequestContext,
//! #         _queue: &'a dyn a2a_protocol_server::streaming::EventQueueWriter,
//! #     ) -> std::pin::Pin<Box<dyn std::future::Future<Output = a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
//! #         Box::pin(async { Ok(()) })
//! #     }
//! # }
//!
//! # async fn example() -> std::io::Result<()> {
//! let handler = Arc::new(
//!     RequestHandlerBuilder::new(MyExecutor)
//!         .build()
//!         .expect("build handler"),
//! );
//!
//! let dispatcher = JsonRpcDispatcher::new(handler);
//! serve("127.0.0.1:3000", dispatcher).await?;
//! # Ok(())
//! # }
//! ```

use std::convert::Infallible;
use std::future::Future;
use std::net::SocketAddr;
use std::pin::Pin;
use std::sync::Arc;

use bytes::Bytes;
use http_body_util::combinators::BoxBody;
use hyper::body::Incoming;

// ── Types ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

/// The HTTP response type returned by dispatchers.
pub type DispatchResponse = hyper::Response<BoxBody<Bytes, Infallible>>;

// ── Dispatcher trait ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

/// Trait for types that can dispatch HTTP requests to an A2A handler.
///
/// Implemented by both [`JsonRpcDispatcher`](crate::JsonRpcDispatcher) and
/// [`RestDispatcher`](crate::RestDispatcher).
pub trait Dispatcher: Send + Sync + 'static {
    /// Dispatches an HTTP request and returns a response.
    fn dispatch(
        &self,
        req: hyper::Request<Incoming>,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = DispatchResponse> + Send + '_>>;
}

// ── serve ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

/// Starts an HTTP server that dispatches requests using the given dispatcher.
///
/// Binds a TCP listener on `addr`, accepts connections, and serves each one
/// using a hyper auto-connection builder. This eliminates the ~25 lines of
/// boilerplate that every A2A agent otherwise needs.
///
/// Each connection is served in a separate Tokio task.
///
/// Once the listener is bound this function does not return. `accept()`
/// failures are transient by nature (a per-connection abort, or a momentarily
/// full descriptor table), so the loop logs them and retries — backing off
/// briefly on descriptor exhaustion — rather than tearing the server down.
/// Callers wanting shutdown should race this future against their own signal
/// (`tokio::select!`) instead of waiting for it to resolve.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// Returns [`std::io::Error`] if the TCP listener fails to bind. This is the
/// only way the returned future completes.
///
/// # Example
///
/// ```rust,no_run
/// use std::sync::Arc;
/// use a2a_protocol_server::serve::serve;
/// use a2a_protocol_server::dispatch::JsonRpcDispatcher;
/// use a2a_protocol_server::RequestHandlerBuilder;
/// # struct MyExecutor;
/// # impl a2a_protocol_server::executor::AgentExecutor for MyExecutor {
/// #     fn execute<'a>(&'a self, _ctx: &'a a2a_protocol_server::request_context::RequestContext,
/// #         _queue: &'a dyn a2a_protocol_server::streaming::EventQueueWriter,
/// #     ) -> std::pin::Pin<Box<dyn std::future::Future<Output = a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
/// #         Box::pin(async { Ok(()) })
/// #     }
/// # }
///
/// # async fn example() -> std::io::Result<()> {
/// let handler = Arc::new(
///     RequestHandlerBuilder::new(MyExecutor)
///         .build()
///         .expect("build handler"),
/// );
///
/// let dispatcher = JsonRpcDispatcher::new(handler);
/// serve("127.0.0.1:3000", dispatcher).await?;
/// # Ok(())
/// # }
/// ```
pub async fn serve(
    addr: impl tokio::net::ToSocketAddrs,
    dispatcher: impl Dispatcher,
) -> std::io::Result<()> {
    let dispatcher = Arc::new(dispatcher);
    let listener = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind(addr).await?;

    trace_info!(
        addr = %listener.local_addr().unwrap_or_else(|_| SocketAddr::from(([0, 0, 0, 0], 0))),
        "A2A server listening"
    );

    loop {
        let (stream, _peer) = match listener.accept().await {
            Ok(pair) => pair,
            Err(e) => {
                // A transient accept() error (per-connection abort, or fd-table
                // exhaustion) must not tear down the whole server. Log, back off
                // if the fd table is full so we don't busy-spin, and keep going.
                trace_warn!(error = %e, "accept() failed; retrying");
                pause_after_accept_error(&e).await;
                continue;
            }
        };
        // Disable Nagle's algorithm to avoid ~40ms delayed-ACK latency on
        // small SSE frames and JSON-RPC responses.
        let _ = stream.set_nodelay(true);
        let io = hyper_util::rt::TokioIo::new(stream);
        let dispatcher = Arc::clone(&dispatcher);

        tokio::spawn(async move {
            let service = hyper::service::service_fn(move |req| {
                let d = Arc::clone(&dispatcher);
                async move { Ok::<_, Infallible>(d.dispatch(req).await) }
            });
            let _ =
                hyper_util::server::conn::auto::Builder::new(hyper_util::rt::TokioExecutor::new())
                    .serve_connection(io, service)
                    .await;
        });
    }
}

/// Starts an HTTP server and returns the bound [`SocketAddr`].
///
/// Like [`serve`], but binds before entering the accept loop and returns the
/// actual address (useful when binding to port `0` for tests).
///
/// # Errors
///
/// Returns [`std::io::Error`] if the TCP listener fails to bind.
pub async fn serve_with_addr(
    addr: impl tokio::net::ToSocketAddrs,
    dispatcher: impl Dispatcher,
) -> std::io::Result<SocketAddr> {
    let dispatcher = Arc::new(dispatcher);
    let listener = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind(addr).await?;
    let local_addr = listener.local_addr()?;

    trace_info!(%local_addr, "A2A server listening");

    tokio::spawn(async move {
        loop {
            let (stream, _peer) = match listener.accept().await {
                Ok(pair) => pair,
                Err(e) => {
                    // Never let a transient accept() error kill the loop.
                    trace_warn!(error = %e, "accept() failed; retrying");
                    pause_after_accept_error(&e).await;
                    continue;
                }
            };
            let _ = stream.set_nodelay(true);
            let io = hyper_util::rt::TokioIo::new(stream);
            let dispatcher = Arc::clone(&dispatcher);

            tokio::spawn(async move {
                let service = hyper::service::service_fn(move |req| {
                    let d = Arc::clone(&dispatcher);
                    async move { Ok::<_, Infallible>(d.dispatch(req).await) }
                });
                let _ = hyper_util::server::conn::auto::Builder::new(
                    hyper_util::rt::TokioExecutor::new(),
                )
                .serve_connection(io, service)
                .await;
            });
        }
    });

    Ok(local_addr)
}

/// Backoff to apply before retrying after a [`tokio::net::TcpListener::accept`]
/// error.
///
/// `accept()` failures on an already-bound listener are effectively always
/// transient: a per-connection abort (`ECONNABORTED`) or file-descriptor
/// exhaustion (`EMFILE`/`ENFILE`). The accept loop must therefore never
/// terminate on them — doing so would take the whole server down for the life
/// of the process the first time the fd table momentarily fills. For fd
/// exhaustion we pause briefly so we don't busy-spin while the table is full;
/// other errors retry immediately.
/// Pauses after a failed `accept()`, for as long as the error warrants.
///
/// Split out of the two accept loops rather than inlined in both, because the
/// decision it makes — pause on fd exhaustion, retry immediately otherwise —
/// is only observable as elapsed time. Inline, the `!` in
/// `if !backoff.is_zero()` could be deleted in either loop and nothing would
/// notice: `sleep(ZERO)` is a no-op, so the mutation's entire effect is to
/// *remove* the pause on EMFILE/ENFILE and busy-spin the accept loop against a
/// full descriptor table. As a named function it can be driven under a paused
/// clock, which is what `backoff_pauses_only_on_fd_exhaustion` does.
pub(crate) async fn pause_after_accept_error(err: &std::io::Error) {
    let backoff = accept_retry_backoff(err);
    if !backoff.is_zero() {
        tokio::time::sleep(backoff).await;
    }
}

pub(crate) fn accept_retry_backoff(err: &std::io::Error) -> std::time::Duration {
    // EMFILE (24) / ENFILE (23) on Unix. On platforms that report other codes
    // the loop still retries — just without the extra pause.
    match err.raw_os_error() {
        Some(23 | 24) => std::time::Duration::from_millis(20),
        _ => std::time::Duration::ZERO,
    }
}

// ── Tests ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

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

    use http_body_util::{BodyExt, Empty};
    use hyper_util::client::legacy::Client;
    use hyper_util::rt::TokioExecutor;

    #[test]
    fn accept_retry_backoff_pauses_only_on_fd_exhaustion() {
        use std::io::{Error, ErrorKind};
        // EMFILE (24) / ENFILE (23): back off so the accept loop doesn't
        // busy-spin while the descriptor table is full.
        assert!(!accept_retry_backoff(&Error::from_raw_os_error(24)).is_zero());
        assert!(!accept_retry_backoff(&Error::from_raw_os_error(23)).is_zero());
        // A per-connection abort (ECONNABORTED = 103 on Linux) retries at once.
        assert!(accept_retry_backoff(&Error::from_raw_os_error(103)).is_zero());
        // A synthetic error carrying no OS code also retries at once (no panic).
        assert!(
            accept_retry_backoff(&Error::new(ErrorKind::ConnectionAborted, "aborted")).is_zero()
        );
    }

    struct MockDispatcher;

    impl Dispatcher for MockDispatcher {
        fn dispatch(
            &self,
            _req: hyper::Request<Incoming>,
        ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = DispatchResponse> + Send + '_>> {
            Box::pin(async {
                let body = http_body_util::Full::new(Bytes::from("ok"));
                hyper::Response::new(BoxBody::new(body.map_err(|e| match e {})))
            })
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn serve_with_addr_returns_bound_address() {
        let addr = serve_with_addr("127.0.0.1:0", MockDispatcher)
            .await
            .expect("server should bind");

        assert_ne!(addr.port(), 0, "should bind to a real port");
        assert!(addr.ip().is_loopback());

        let client = Client::builder(TokioExecutor::new()).build_http::<Empty<Bytes>>();
        let resp = client
            .get(format!("http://{addr}/").parse().unwrap())
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(resp.status(), 200);

        let body = resp.into_body().collect().await.unwrap().to_bytes();
        assert_eq!(&body[..], b"ok");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn serve_with_addr_handles_multiple_connections() {
        let addr = serve_with_addr("127.0.0.1:0", MockDispatcher)
            .await
            .expect("server should bind");

        let client = Client::builder(TokioExecutor::new()).build_http::<Empty<Bytes>>();

        for i in 0..3 {
            let resp = client
                .get(format!("http://{addr}/").parse().unwrap())
                .await
                .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("request {i} failed: {e}"));
            let body = resp.into_body().collect().await.unwrap().to_bytes();
            assert_eq!(&body[..], b"ok", "request {i} returned unexpected body");
        }
    }

    /// Kills `delete !` in both accept loops — now a single `!` inside
    /// `pause_after_accept_error`.
    ///
    /// Driven on a paused clock, so the assertion is on *virtual* elapsed
    /// time: deterministic, instant, and immune to scheduler noise. A
    /// wall-clock version would be either flaky at 20 ms or slow enough that
    /// nobody keeps it.
    ///
    /// Inverted, the guard sleeps zero when the backoff is zero (a no-op) and
    /// skips the sleep when it is not — so the EMFILE pause disappears and the
    /// accept loop spins against a full descriptor table. That is what the
    /// first assertion pins.
    #[tokio::test(start_paused = true)]
    async fn backoff_pauses_only_on_fd_exhaustion() {
        use std::io::Error;
        use std::time::Duration;

        let start = tokio::time::Instant::now();
        pause_after_accept_error(&Error::from_raw_os_error(24)).await;
        assert!(
            start.elapsed() >= Duration::from_millis(20),
            "fd exhaustion (EMFILE) must pause the accept loop; no elapsed \
             time means it would busy-spin while the descriptor table is full"
        );

        let start = tokio::time::Instant::now();
        pause_after_accept_error(&Error::from_raw_os_error(23)).await;
        assert!(
            start.elapsed() >= Duration::from_millis(20),
            "ENFILE must pause for the same reason"
        );

        // A per-connection abort retries immediately. Asserted so the test
        // cannot pass against a body that simply always sleeps.
        let start = tokio::time::Instant::now();
        pause_after_accept_error(&Error::from_raw_os_error(103)).await;
        assert_eq!(
            start.elapsed(),
            Duration::ZERO,
            "a transient per-connection error must retry at once"
        );
    }

    /// Kills `replace serve -> std::io::Result<()> with Ok(())`.
    ///
    /// Every other test in this module drives `serve_with_addr`, a different
    /// function. `serve` itself was never called, so a body that bound nothing
    /// and returned success was indistinguishable from a working one.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn serve_binds_and_answers_requests() {
        // Reserve an ephemeral port and release it: `serve` takes an address
        // rather than a listener, so it needs a concrete one to bind.
        let probe = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:0")
            .await
            .expect("reserve a port");
        let addr = probe.local_addr().expect("addr");
        drop(probe);

        let server = tokio::spawn(async move { serve(addr, MockDispatcher).await });

        // Binding is asynchronous, so the first connect can lose the race
        // legitimately. Bounded, so the mutant fails fast rather than hanging.
        let client = Client::builder(TokioExecutor::new()).build_http::<Empty<Bytes>>();
        let mut last_err = None;
        let mut response = None;
        for _ in 0..50 {
            match client
                .get(format!("http://{addr}/").parse().expect("uri"))
                .await
            {
                Ok(resp) => {
                    response = Some(resp);
                    break;
                }
                Err(e) => {
                    last_err = Some(e);
                    tokio::time::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(20)).await;
                }
            }
        }

        let resp = response.unwrap_or_else(|| {
            panic!(
                "nothing served on {addr} after ~1s; `serve` never bound it. \
                 last error: {last_err:?}"
            )
        });
        assert_eq!(
            resp.status(),
            200,
            "the dispatcher's response must come back"
        );
        let body = resp.into_body().collect().await.expect("body").to_bytes();
        assert_eq!(&body[..], b"ok", "the body must come from MockDispatcher");

        server.abort();
    }
}