a2a-protocol-server 0.11.0

Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol v1.0 — server framework (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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//! An append-only side table for artifact parts, so a streaming append costs
//! the same at part 3,000 as at part 3.
//!
//! # Why this exists
//!
//! A task is stored as one JSON document. Appending a part used to splice it in
//! with `json_set`, which saves the Rust-side serialization of the whole task —
//! a real saving — but not the database-side one: `json_set` parses and
//! rewrites the entire document, so the statement stays linear in how much the
//! stream has already produced.
//!
//! That was recorded in the code as a known limit, with the reasoning that the
//! per-event round trip dominated anyway. Measured across document sizes rather
//! than at one, the reasoning does not hold: the round trip is a constant and
//! the rewrite is not, so which dominates is a question about document size,
//! not a fact about the store.
//!
//! Measured through `SqliteTaskStore` itself, release build, 200 appends per
//! arm, best of three, fresh database per arm — the same probe run against the
//! commit before this one and against this one:
//!
//! | parts | `json_set` delta | vs. full save | journalled delta | vs. full save |
//! |------:|-----------------:|--------------:|-----------------:|--------------:|
//! |    10 |          171.6us |         0.71x |          112.1us |         0.26x |
//! |   100 |          289.5us |         0.72x |          140.1us |         0.24x |
//! |   300 |          586.8us |         0.98x |          123.9us |         0.17x |
//! |  1000 |         1574.8us |     **1.39x** |          137.2us |         0.10x |
//! |  3000 |         4516.1us |     **1.48x** |          124.7us |         0.03x |
//!
//! The bolded column is the part worth stating plainly: past roughly 300 parts
//! the incremental path was not merely failing to help, it was *slower than
//! rewriting the whole record* — paying a `json_set` parse of the document on
//! top of everything a full save does. An optimisation named for being
//! incremental was a pessimisation for exactly the long streams it was for.
//!
//! Journalled, the append is flat: ~130us whether the artifact holds ten parts
//! or three thousand. At 3,000 parts that is 4.5ms down to 0.12ms.
//!
//! # What this costs
//!
//! `save` got slower, and the honest figure is in the table above: it now opens
//! a transaction and clears this table as well as writing the document, which
//! at ten parts moved it from ~241us to ~427us. That is a real regression and
//! it is the right trade, because the two operations do not happen at the same
//! rate — `save` runs on status changes, a handful per task, while the append
//! runs once per streaming event. Trading ~190us on a few saves against ~4.4ms
//! on each of thousands of appends is not close.
//!
//! # How reads stay correct
//!
//! The document remains the record of the task. This table holds only the parts
//! appended *since* the document was last written whole, and every read splices
//! them back on. A full [`save`](super::SqliteTaskStore) rewrites the document
//! and clears the rows for that task in the same transaction, so the two can
//! never disagree about a part: it is in the document, or in the journal, never
//! both and never neither.
//!
//! That also bounds the table without a compactor. Every status change persists
//! the task whole — `working`, each subsequent status update, and the terminal
//! state all go through `save` — so the journal holds at most one status
//! interval's worth of appends, and a finished task has none at all.
//!
//! # `seq` is a position, not a counter
//!
//! Each row's `seq` is the index the part occupies in `Artifact::parts`, which
//! the caller already knows. Nothing has to read the table to find out where to
//! append next, an insert never races another insert into the same slot, and
//! replaying an append is idempotent rather than duplicating a part.

use a2a_protocol_types::error::{A2aError, A2aResult};
use a2a_protocol_types::Task;

/// The table holding parts appended since the task document was last written.
///
/// `WITHOUT ROWID` because the primary key *is* the whole row's identity and
/// every access is by it — a `rowid` would be a second index over the same
/// thing. The foreign key means deleting a task takes its journal with it, and
/// [`delete_for`] repeats that explicitly for pools built without
/// `foreign_keys=ON`, which `from_pool` cannot assume of a caller's pool.
pub const CREATE_TABLE_SQL: &str = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS task_artifact_appends (
        task_id  TEXT NOT NULL,
        artifact INTEGER NOT NULL,
        seq      INTEGER NOT NULL,
        part     TEXT NOT NULL,
        PRIMARY KEY (task_id, artifact, seq),
        FOREIGN KEY (task_id) REFERENCES tasks(id) ON DELETE CASCADE
    ) WITHOUT ROWID";

/// Reads a task's journal rows, in the order they must be applied.
pub(super) const SELECT_FOR_TASK_SQL: &str =
    "SELECT artifact, seq, part FROM task_artifact_appends \
     WHERE task_id = ?1 ORDER BY artifact, seq";

/// Drops a task's journal rows. Used by `save`, which supersedes them, and by
/// `delete`.
pub(super) const DELETE_FOR_TASK_SQL: &str = "DELETE FROM task_artifact_appends WHERE task_id = ?1";

/// One journal row: which artifact, which position, and the part itself.
pub(super) type Row = (i64, i64, String);

/// Splices journalled parts back onto a task read from its document.
///
/// Rows must arrive ordered by `(artifact, seq)`, which
/// [`SELECT_FOR_TASK_SQL`] guarantees.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// [`A2aError::internal`] if a stored part is not deserializable, which would
/// mean the journal holds something this build cannot read — worth failing the
/// read over rather than silently returning a task missing its tail.
pub(super) fn splice(task: &mut Task, rows: Vec<Row>) -> A2aResult<()> {
    if rows.is_empty() {
        return Ok(());
    }
    // Journal rows for a task whose document has no artifacts array at all
    // describe a shape the document does not have. That is the same class of
    // mismatch the append path refuses to create, so it is dropped rather than
    // guessed at.
    let Some(artifacts) = task.artifacts.as_mut() else {
        return Ok(());
    };

    for (artifact_index, seq, part_json) in rows {
        let Ok(index) = usize::try_from(artifact_index) else {
            continue;
        };
        let Ok(position) = usize::try_from(seq) else {
            continue;
        };
        let Some(artifact) = artifacts.get_mut(index) else {
            continue;
        };

        // Already in the document: a `save` wrote this part before the row was
        // cleared. Skipping is what makes the overlap harmless rather than a
        // duplicated part.
        if position < artifact.parts.len() {
            continue;
        }
        // A gap means a part between the document's tail and this row is
        // missing. Pushing anyway would put every following part at the wrong
        // index, so the artifact stops here with what is known to be right.
        // The next full `save` restores it.
        if position > artifact.parts.len() {
            continue;
        }

        let part = serde_json::from_str(&part_json).map_err(|e| {
            A2aError::internal(format!(
                "failed to deserialize journalled artifact part: {e}"
            ))
        })?;
        artifact.parts.push(part);
    }

    Ok(())
}

/// The rows an `AppendedParts` delta turns into, or `None` when the delta does
/// not describe the task it was given.
///
/// `None` means the caller must fall back to writing the task whole. Each
/// refusal below is a case where journalling would record something the
/// document could not be reconciled with, and a store that is quietly wrong is
/// worse than one that is slower:
///
/// - **No artifacts on the task**, so there is nothing to append into.
/// - **The index names an artifact the task does not have.**
/// - **Fewer parts present than `count` claims** were appended, so the tail to
///   journal cannot be identified.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// [`A2aError::internal`] if a part cannot be serialized.
pub(super) fn rows_for_append(
    task: &Task,
    index: usize,
    count: usize,
) -> A2aResult<Option<Vec<Row>>> {
    if count == 0 {
        return Ok(None);
    }
    let Some(artifacts) = task.artifacts.as_ref() else {
        return Ok(None);
    };
    let Some(artifact) = artifacts.get(index) else {
        return Ok(None);
    };
    if artifact.parts.len() < count {
        return Ok(None);
    }

    let first = artifact.parts.len() - count;
    let Ok(artifact_index) = i64::try_from(index) else {
        return Ok(None);
    };

    let mut rows = Vec::with_capacity(count);
    for (offset, part) in artifact.parts[first..].iter().enumerate() {
        let Ok(seq) = i64::try_from(first + offset) else {
            return Ok(None);
        };
        let json = serde_json::to_string(part)
            .map_err(|e| A2aError::internal(format!("failed to serialize artifact part: {e}")))?;
        rows.push((artifact_index, seq, json));
    }
    Ok(Some(rows))
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;
    use a2a_protocol_types::message::PartContent;
    use a2a_protocol_types::{Artifact, ContextId, Part, Task, TaskId, TaskState, TaskStatus};

    fn bare_task() -> Task {
        Task {
            id: TaskId::new("t1"),
            context_id: ContextId::new("c1"),
            status: TaskStatus::new(TaskState::Working),
            history: None,
            artifacts: None,
            metadata: None,
        }
    }

    fn task_with_parts(texts: &[&str]) -> Task {
        let mut task = bare_task();
        task.artifacts = Some(vec![Artifact::new(
            "a1",
            texts.iter().map(|t| Part::text(*t)).collect::<Vec<_>>(),
        )]);
        task
    }

    fn part_texts(task: &Task) -> Vec<String> {
        task.artifacts
            .as_ref()
            .expect("artifacts")
            .first()
            .expect("one artifact")
            .parts
            .iter()
            .map(|p| match &p.content {
                PartContent::Text(text) => text.clone(),
                other => panic!("unexpected part content: {other:?}"),
            })
            .collect()
    }

    fn row(seq: i64, text: &str) -> Row {
        (
            0,
            seq,
            serde_json::to_string(&Part::text(text)).expect("serialize"),
        )
    }

    // ── splice: the read half, where a mistake loses a customer's output ────

    #[test]
    fn journalled_parts_land_after_the_documents_own() {
        let mut task = task_with_parts(&["a", "b"]);

        splice(&mut task, vec![row(2, "c"), row(3, "d")]).expect("splice");

        assert_eq!(part_texts(&task), ["a", "b", "c", "d"]);
    }

    /// The overlap that makes `save` and the journal safe to hold at once: a
    /// full save writes the parts into the document, and until its transaction
    /// clears them the rows still name positions the document now has.
    /// Re-appending them would duplicate a part.
    #[test]
    fn a_part_already_in_the_document_is_not_appended_twice() {
        let mut task = task_with_parts(&["a", "b", "c"]);

        splice(&mut task, vec![row(1, "b"), row(2, "c"), row(3, "d")]).expect("splice");

        assert_eq!(part_texts(&task), ["a", "b", "c", "d"]);
    }

    /// A missing position would put everything after it at the wrong index.
    /// Stopping leaves a task that is short but correctly ordered, which the
    /// next full save repairs; continuing would leave one that is silently
    /// scrambled.
    #[test]
    fn a_gap_stops_the_splice_rather_than_shifting_parts() {
        let mut task = task_with_parts(&["a"]);

        // Position 1 is missing: these are parts 2 and 3.
        splice(&mut task, vec![row(2, "c"), row(3, "d")]).expect("splice");

        assert_eq!(
            part_texts(&task),
            ["a"],
            "no part may be placed at an index that is not its own"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn rows_for_an_artifact_the_task_does_not_have_are_dropped() {
        let mut task = task_with_parts(&["a"]);

        splice(
            &mut task,
            vec![(7, 0, serde_json::to_string(&Part::text("x")).unwrap())],
        )
        .expect("splice");

        assert_eq!(part_texts(&task), ["a"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_task_with_no_artifacts_is_left_alone() {
        let mut task = bare_task();

        splice(&mut task, vec![row(0, "x")]).expect("splice");

        assert!(task.artifacts.is_none());
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_unreadable_journal_row_fails_the_read() {
        let mut task = task_with_parts(&["a"]);

        let err = splice(&mut task, vec![(0, 1, "not json".to_string())])
            .expect_err("a part this build cannot read must not be skipped silently");

        assert!(err.message.contains("journalled artifact part"));
    }

    // ── rows_for_append: the write half ────────────────────────────────────

    #[test]
    fn an_append_journals_the_tail_at_its_own_positions() {
        let task = task_with_parts(&["a", "b", "c"]);

        let rows = rows_for_append(&task, 0, 2)
            .expect("build rows")
            .expect("the delta describes this task");

        assert_eq!(rows.len(), 2);
        assert_eq!(rows[0].1, 1, "seq is the part's index, not a counter");
        assert_eq!(rows[1].1, 2);
    }

    /// Every refusal means "write the task whole instead". They exist because
    /// journalling a delta the document cannot be reconciled with is worse than
    /// being slow.
    #[test]
    fn a_delta_that_does_not_describe_the_task_refuses_to_journal() {
        let task = task_with_parts(&["a", "b"]);

        assert!(
            rows_for_append(&task, 0, 0).expect("no error").is_none(),
            "an empty append has nothing to record"
        );
        assert!(
            rows_for_append(&task, 9, 1).expect("no error").is_none(),
            "an artifact index the task does not have"
        );
        assert!(
            rows_for_append(&task, 0, 5).expect("no error").is_none(),
            "more parts claimed appended than the artifact holds"
        );
        assert!(
            rows_for_append(&bare_task(), 0, 1)
                .expect("no error")
                .is_none(),
            "no artifacts at all"
        );
    }

    /// The round trip, asserted as a property rather than on one example: what
    /// `rows_for_append` records is exactly what `splice` puts back.
    #[test]
    fn what_is_journalled_is_what_comes_back() {
        let full = task_with_parts(&["a", "b", "c", "d"]);
        let rows = rows_for_append(&full, 0, 3)
            .expect("build rows")
            .expect("describes the task");

        // The document as it was before those three parts were appended.
        let mut stored = task_with_parts(&["a"]);
        splice(&mut stored, rows).expect("splice");

        assert_eq!(part_texts(&stored), part_texts(&full));
    }
}