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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//! Errors carried *inside* an HTTP+JSON event stream.
//!
//! §11.7 says what a stream's events look like and nothing about how a
//! server reports a failure once the stream is open, so the two servers this
//! client meets most do it differently:
//!
//! * **a2a-go v2.5.0** writes the AIP-193 object it would have sent as a
//!   response body, as an ordinary data frame (`a2asrv/rest.go`,
//!   `handleError`: `errResp := rest.ToRESTError(err, ...)`, then
//!   `sseWriter.WriteData`), i.e. `data: {"error":{"code":404,"status":
//!   "NOT_FOUND","message":...,"details":[ErrorInfo]}}`.
//! * **This repository's server** writes `event: error` with the same
//!   AIP-193 object, the error's `data` as a flat `google.protobuf.Struct`
//!   detail (`a2a-protocol-server/src/streaming/sse.rs`,
//!   `rest_stream_error`) — so a2a-go's REST client can read it. That detail
//!   is decoded back into `data`, which keeps
//!   [`A2aError::is_stream_lagged`] true across the stream. Releases up to
//!   and including 0.13.0 wrote a serialized `A2aError` instead,
//!   `{"code":-32001,"message":...,"data":...}`.
//!
//! All three are accepted — lenient in what the client reads. None parses as a
//! `StreamResponse`, which is why they used to reach the consumer as a
//! `Serialization` error naming an "unknown variant".

use a2a_protocol_types::{A2aError, ErrorCode};

/// Decodes a stream data frame that carries an error rather than an event.
///
/// Returns `None` for anything that is neither shape, so a genuinely
/// malformed frame is still reported as the parse failure it is.
pub fn decode_stream_error_frame(data: &str) -> Option<A2aError> {
    let value: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(data).ok()?;
    if let Some(error) = value.get("error") {
        return error.is_object().then(|| aip193_in_stream(data, &value));
    }
    let code = i32::try_from(value.get("code")?.as_i64()?).ok()?;
    let message = value.get("message")?.as_str()?.to_owned();
    Some(crate::transport::map_jsonrpc_error(
        code,
        message,
        value.get("data").cloned(),
    ))
}

/// An AIP-193 error object met mid-stream.
///
/// The unary path's decoder recovers the exact code from an A2A reason and
/// otherwise declines, leaving the caller the HTTP status. A stream has no
/// status to fall back to — it is already `200` — so this goes further:
/// the JSON-RPC-standard reasons a2a-go also emits (`a2a/errors.go`:
/// `ErrInvalidParams: "INVALID_PARAMS"`, `ErrInternalError:
/// "INTERNAL_ERROR"`, …) map to their standard codes, and anything else is
/// an internal error. The whole object is kept in `data` either way, so
/// nothing the server said is lost.
fn aip193_in_stream(data: &str, value: &serde_json::Value) -> A2aError {
    let error = &value["error"];
    let message = error
        .get("message")
        .and_then(serde_json::Value::as_str)
        .unwrap_or("error reported inside the event stream")
        .to_owned();
    let code = super::request::parse_aip193_error(data.as_bytes()).map_or_else(
        || standard_reason(error).unwrap_or(ErrorCode::InternalError),
        |known| known.code,
    );
    A2aError::with_data(
        code,
        message,
        struct_detail(error).unwrap_or_else(|| value.clone()),
    )
}

/// The `@type` a `google.protobuf.Struct` detail carries.
const STRUCT_DETAIL_TYPE: &str = "type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.Struct";

/// The error's own `data`, when the frame carries it as a flat
/// `google.protobuf.Struct` detail — the shape this repository's server writes
/// (`{"@type":…,"streamLagged":6}`). Returning it as `data` is what keeps
/// [`A2aError::is_stream_lagged`] working across a REST stream. `None` when
/// there is no such detail, so a peer's whole object is kept instead.
fn struct_detail(error: &serde_json::Value) -> Option<serde_json::Value> {
    let detail =
        error.get("details")?.as_array()?.iter().find(|d| {
            d.get("@type").and_then(serde_json::Value::as_str) == Some(STRUCT_DETAIL_TYPE)
        })?;
    let mut fields = detail.as_object()?.clone();
    fields.remove("@type");
    Some(serde_json::Value::Object(fields))
}

/// The JSON-RPC-standard error a `google.rpc.ErrorInfo` reason names, for
/// the reasons the specification leaves undefined but a2a-go sends.
/// `INTERNAL_ERROR` has no arm: it lands on `InternalError` as the fallback.
fn standard_reason(error: &serde_json::Value) -> Option<ErrorCode> {
    let reason = error
        .get("details")?
        .as_array()?
        .iter()
        .find_map(|d| d.get("reason")?.as_str())?;
    match reason {
        "PARSE_ERROR" => Some(ErrorCode::ParseError),
        "INVALID_REQUEST" => Some(ErrorCode::InvalidRequest),
        "METHOD_NOT_FOUND" => Some(ErrorCode::MethodNotFound),
        "INVALID_PARAMS" => Some(ErrorCode::InvalidParams),
        _ => None,
    }
}

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

    #[test]
    fn a2a_error_shape_decodes_through_the_jsonrpc_code_map() {
        let err = decode_stream_error_frame(r#"{"code":-32001,"message":"gone","data":{"k":1}}"#)
            .expect("an error");
        assert_eq!(err.code, ErrorCode::TaskNotFound);
        assert_eq!(err.message, "gone");
        assert_eq!(err.data, Some(serde_json::json!({"k":1})));
        // An unknown code is kept, not dropped.
        let err = decode_stream_error_frame(r#"{"code":-1,"message":"odd"}"#).expect("an error");
        assert_eq!(err.code, ErrorCode::InternalError);
    }

    #[test]
    fn aip193_without_a_message_still_decodes() {
        let err = decode_stream_error_frame(r#"{"error":{"code":500}}"#).expect("an error");
        assert_eq!(err.code, ErrorCode::InternalError);
        assert_eq!(err.message, "error reported inside the event stream");
    }

    /// The frame this repository's own server writes for a lagged REST stream
    /// (`rest_stream_error` in the server's `streaming/sse.rs`): the error's
    /// `data` travels as a flat `google.protobuf.Struct` detail. Decoding it
    /// must give back the same `data`, or `is_stream_lagged` — the client's
    /// only signal to resubscribe — reads false.
    #[test]
    fn a_struct_detail_is_the_errors_data_so_stream_lag_survives() {
        let frame = r#"{"error":{"code":500,"status":"INTERNAL","message":"event stream lagged",
            "details":[{"@type":"type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.Struct","streamLagged":6}]}}"#;
        let err = decode_stream_error_frame(frame).expect("an error");
        assert!(err.is_stream_lagged(), "{err:?}");
        assert_eq!(err.dropped_event_count(), Some(6));
        assert_eq!(err.data, Some(serde_json::json!({"streamLagged": 6})));
    }

    /// Without a `Struct` detail — a2a-go's frames — the whole object stays
    /// as `data`, so nothing the peer sent is lost.
    #[test]
    fn without_a_struct_detail_the_whole_object_is_the_data() {
        let frame = r#"{"error":{"code":404,"status":"NOT_FOUND","message":"gone","details":[
            {"@type":"type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo","reason":"TASK_NOT_FOUND","domain":"a2a-protocol.org"}]}}"#;
        let err = decode_stream_error_frame(frame).expect("an error");
        assert_eq!(err.code, ErrorCode::TaskNotFound);
        let whole: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(frame).expect("json");
        assert_eq!(err.data, Some(whole));
    }

    #[test]
    fn neither_shape_is_none() {
        for frame in [
            "not json",
            "[]",
            r#"{"error":"string"}"#,
            r#"{"error":null}"#,
            r#"{"code":"x","message":"m"}"#,
            r#"{"code":1}"#,
            r#"{"message":"m"}"#,
            r#"{"code":4294967296,"message":"out of i32 range"}"#,
            r#"{"statusUpdate":{}}"#,
        ] {
            assert!(decode_stream_error_frame(frame).is_none(), "{frame}");
        }
    }
}