a2a-protocol-client 0.14.1

Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol v1.0 — HTTP client (hyper-backed)
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! Client error types.
//!
//! [`ClientError`] is the top-level error type for all A2A client operations.
//! Use [`ClientResult`] as the return type alias.

use std::fmt;

use a2a_protocol_types::{A2aError, TaskId};

// ── ClientError ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

/// Errors that can occur during A2A client operations.
#[derive(Debug)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub enum ClientError {
    /// A transport-level HTTP error from hyper.
    Http(hyper::Error),

    /// An HTTP-level error from the hyper-util client (connection, redirect, etc.).
    HttpClient(String),

    /// JSON serialization or deserialization error.
    Serialization(serde_json::Error),

    /// A protocol-level A2A error returned by the server.
    Protocol(A2aError),

    /// A transport configuration or connection error.
    Transport(String),

    /// The agent endpoint URL is invalid or could not be resolved.
    InvalidEndpoint(String),

    /// The server returned an unexpected HTTP status code.
    UnexpectedStatus {
        /// The HTTP status code received.
        status: u16,
        /// The response body (truncated if large).
        body: String,
        /// Server-requested retry delay parsed from a `Retry-After` header
        /// (delta-seconds), when present on a `429`/`503`. The retry layer
        /// honors this in preference to its own computed backoff so the client
        /// does not hammer a server that explicitly asked it to wait.
        retry_after: Option<std::time::Duration>,
    },

    /// The agent requires authentication for this task.
    AuthRequired {
        /// The ID of the task requiring authentication.
        task_id: TaskId,
    },

    /// A request or stream connection timed out.
    Timeout(String),

    /// The connection already has `limit` requests awaiting responses, and
    /// this one was refused up front rather than queued. Retryable: room
    /// appears as responses arrive. See
    /// `WebSocketTransportConfig::max_pending_requests`.
    TooManyPendingRequests {
        /// The configured cap that was hit.
        limit: usize,
    },

    /// A stream ended before the event that finishes it.
    ///
    /// A stream finishes cleanly on a `Message`, or on a `Task` or status
    /// update whose state is terminal (`completed`, `failed`, `canceled`,
    /// `rejected`) or interrupted (`input-required`, `auth-required`) — the
    /// states at which the specification says the server closes it (§3.1.2,
    /// §11.7). A body that ends, or a connection that closes, anywhere else
    /// is this error rather than a quiet `None`: the task is very likely still
    /// running, and the consumer is missing the rest of it.
    ///
    /// Retryable in the sense that matters for a stream: resubscribe with
    /// [`A2aClient::subscribe_to_task_from`](crate::A2aClient::subscribe_to_task_from),
    /// passing `last_event_id`, and a server that keeps an event log replays
    /// what was missed.
    IncompleteStream {
        /// The last SSE `id:` received before the stream ended — the value to
        /// resume from. `None` when the server sent none: gRPC and WebSocket
        /// streams carry no ids, and neither does a server without resumption.
        last_event_id: Option<String>,
        /// What was missing, for the message.
        detail: String,
    },

    /// The server appears to use a different protocol binding than the client.
    ///
    /// For example, a JSON-RPC client connected to a REST-only server (or
    /// vice-versa).  Check the agent card's `supported_interfaces` to select
    /// the correct protocol binding.
    ProtocolBindingMismatch(String),
}

impl fmt::Display for ClientError {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
        match self {
            Self::Http(e) => write!(f, "HTTP error: {e}"),
            Self::HttpClient(msg) => write!(f, "HTTP client error: {msg}"),
            Self::Serialization(e) => write!(f, "serialization error: {e}"),
            Self::Protocol(e) => write!(f, "protocol error: {e}"),
            Self::Transport(msg) => write!(f, "transport error: {msg}"),
            Self::InvalidEndpoint(msg) => write!(f, "invalid endpoint: {msg}"),
            Self::UnexpectedStatus { status, body, .. } => {
                write!(f, "unexpected HTTP status {status}: {body}")
            }
            Self::AuthRequired { task_id } => {
                write!(f, "authentication required for task: {task_id}")
            }
            Self::Timeout(msg) => write!(f, "timeout: {msg}"),
            Self::TooManyPendingRequests { limit } => {
                write!(
                    f,
                    "too many pending requests on this connection (limit {limit})"
                )
            }
            Self::IncompleteStream { detail, .. } => {
                write!(f, "stream ended before its final event: {detail}")
            }
            Self::ProtocolBindingMismatch(msg) => {
                write!(
                    f,
                    "protocol binding mismatch: {msg}; check the agent card's supported_interfaces"
                )
            }
        }
    }
}

impl std::error::Error for ClientError {
    fn source(&self) -> Option<&(dyn std::error::Error + 'static)> {
        match self {
            Self::Http(e) => Some(e),
            Self::Serialization(e) => Some(e),
            Self::Protocol(e) => Some(e),
            _ => None,
        }
    }
}

impl ClientError {
    /// Server-requested retry delay, if this error carries one (a `Retry-After`
    /// header on a `429`/`503`). The retry layer prefers this over its computed
    /// backoff.
    #[must_use]
    pub const fn retry_after(&self) -> Option<std::time::Duration> {
        match self {
            Self::UnexpectedStatus { retry_after, .. } => *retry_after,
            _ => None,
        }
    }

    /// Returns `true` when this is the consumer-lag signal on a streaming
    /// subscription: the reader fell too far behind the agent, and the stream
    /// was cut off, rather than the task failing.
    ///
    /// **The stream ends here; the task does not.** This SDK's server writes
    /// one lag error frame when a reader overruns its event queue and then
    /// closes the stream, and the WebSocket transport ends a stream the same
    /// way once 64 frames are waiting unread (audit N29). What was read is a
    /// contiguous prefix. To continue, resubscribe: over SSE with
    /// [`subscribe_to_task_from`](crate::A2aClient::subscribe_to_task_from)
    /// and the stream's last event id, which replays what was missed.
    ///
    /// ```no_run
    /// # async fn demo(stream: &mut a2a_protocol_client::streaming::EventStream) {
    /// while let Some(event) = stream.next().await {
    ///     match event {
    ///         Ok(ev) => { /* handle */ }
    ///         // Not a task failure: the stream was cut off. Resubscribe.
    ///         Err(e) if e.is_stream_lagged() => {
    ///             eprintln!("stream cut off after {:?} dropped events", e.dropped_event_count());
    ///             break;
    ///         }
    ///         Err(e) => break, // a real failure
    ///     }
    /// }
    /// # }
    /// ```
    #[must_use]
    pub fn is_stream_lagged(&self) -> bool {
        matches!(self, Self::Protocol(e) if e.is_stream_lagged())
    }

    /// Number of events the server dropped, when this is a consumer-lag
    /// signal (see [`ClientError::is_stream_lagged`]); `None` otherwise.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn dropped_event_count(&self) -> Option<u64> {
        match self {
            Self::Protocol(e) => e.dropped_event_count(),
            _ => None,
        }
    }
}

/// Parses a `Retry-After` header value into a delay.
///
/// Supports the delta-seconds form (`Retry-After: 120`). The HTTP-date form is
/// not parsed (it would require a date-parsing dependency); such headers yield
/// `None` and the client falls back to its computed backoff.
#[must_use]
pub(crate) fn parse_retry_after(headers: &hyper::HeaderMap) -> Option<std::time::Duration> {
    let raw = headers.get(hyper::header::RETRY_AFTER)?.to_str().ok()?;
    let secs: u64 = raw.trim().parse().ok()?;
    // Clamp to a sane ceiling so a hostile/misconfigured header can't park a
    // retry for an absurd duration.
    Some(std::time::Duration::from_secs(secs.min(3600)))
}

impl From<A2aError> for ClientError {
    fn from(e: A2aError) -> Self {
        Self::Protocol(e)
    }
}

/// Lets an executor that delegates to another agent use `?` on client calls.
///
/// An `AgentExecutor` returns `A2aResult`, so without this every delegated
/// call had to be flattened to a string, losing whether it was worth
/// retrying. The conversion keeps what the server needs to classify the
/// failed task (see `a2a_protocol_types::failure::error_class`):
///
/// | `ClientError` | `A2aError` code | Failure class |
/// |---|---|---|
/// | `Protocol(e)` | `e.code`, with `e.message` and `e.data` unchanged | from the code |
/// | anything [`is_retryable`](ClientError::is_retryable) — timeouts, connection failures, `429`/`502`/`503`/`504`, `TooManyPendingRequests` | `InternalError` | `Transient` |
/// | `Serialization` (the peer sent something unreadable) | `InvalidAgentResponse` | `Internal` |
/// | everything else (bad endpoint, binding mismatch, other statuses, auth required) | `InternalError` | `Internal` |
///
/// "Transient exactly when the client would retry" is deliberate: the
/// client's retry policy and the caller's are then the same judgement.
/// The class rides in `data` under the failure key; the server never sends
/// `data` to its caller as-is, so it does not leak. The message is
/// `downstream A2A call failed: ` followed by this error's text and its
/// source chain, so nothing the client knew is lost.
///
/// ```no_run
/// use a2a_protocol_client::ClientBuilder;
/// use a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult;
/// use a2a_protocol_types::params::TaskQueryParams;
///
/// // The shape of an `AgentExecutor::execute` body that delegates.
/// async fn delegate(downstream: &str, task_id: &str) -> A2aResult<String> {
///     let client = ClientBuilder::new(downstream).build()?;
///     let task = client
///         .get_task(TaskQueryParams {
///             tenant: None,
///             id: task_id.to_owned(),
///             history_length: None,
///         })
///         .await?; // a timeout here fails the task as `Transient`
///     Ok(task.text().unwrap_or_default().to_owned())
/// }
/// ```
impl From<ClientError> for A2aError {
    fn from(e: ClientError) -> Self {
        use a2a_protocol_types::error::ErrorCode;
        use a2a_protocol_types::failure::{FailureClass, set_error_class};

        let class = if e.is_retryable() {
            FailureClass::Transient
        } else {
            FailureClass::Internal
        };
        let code = match e {
            ClientError::Protocol(inner) => return inner,
            ClientError::Serialization(_) => ErrorCode::InvalidAgentResponse,
            _ => ErrorCode::InternalError,
        };
        let mut out = Self::new(code, format!("downstream A2A call failed: {}", chain(&e)));
        set_error_class(&mut out, class);
        out
    }
}

/// An error's text followed by each cause the text does not already contain.
fn chain(e: &dyn std::error::Error) -> String {
    let mut text = e.to_string();
    let mut cause = e.source();
    while let Some(c) = cause {
        let s = c.to_string();
        if !text.contains(&s) {
            text.push_str(": ");
            text.push_str(&s);
        }
        cause = c.source();
    }
    text
}

impl From<hyper::Error> for ClientError {
    fn from(e: hyper::Error) -> Self {
        Self::Http(e)
    }
}

impl From<serde_json::Error> for ClientError {
    fn from(e: serde_json::Error) -> Self {
        Self::Serialization(e)
    }
}

// ── ClientResult ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

/// Convenience type alias: `Result<T, ClientError>`.
pub type ClientResult<T> = Result<T, ClientError>;

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

#[cfg(test)]
mod chain_tests;
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests;