a2a-protocol-server 0.14.0

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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// Do no harm. Respect others. Be honest. Be evidence-driven and fact-based. Never guess — test
// and verify. Security hardening and best practices are non-negotiable. — Tom F.

//! How a send is answered, once it has been admitted.
//!
//! The three `respond_*` arms are the ends of the send path — a replayed
//! idempotent send, a backgrounded one, and a blocking one — and they share
//! `hydrate_response_history`, which is why they are one module rather than
//! three. `mod.rs` crossed the 500-line ratchet when that helper arrived, and
//! this directory was already split by concern, so it got another split rather
//! than an exemption.

use a2a_protocol_types::events::StreamResponse;
use a2a_protocol_types::responses::SendMessageResponse;
use a2a_protocol_types::task::Task;

use super::super::{RequestHandler, SendMessageResult};
use super::Started;
use super::decisions::shape_response_history;
use crate::error::ServerResult;
use crate::streaming::InMemoryQueueReader;

impl RequestHandler {
    /// Fills `task.history` from the store when the caller asked for history.
    ///
    /// The send path's task carries only the message this turn added, so the
    /// stored record is the only place the rest of the conversation exists.
    /// This read is O(history) and is the reason it is guarded: `historyLength`
    /// defaults to `None`, which omits history from the response entirely, so
    /// the overwhelmingly common send pays nothing for it. A caller that does
    /// ask is asking for the conversation, and the conversation has to be read.
    async fn hydrate_response_history(&self, task: &mut Task, history_length: Option<u32>) {
        if history_length.is_none() {
            return;
        }
        // A miss or an error leaves what the send path built: this turn's
        // message, which is a truthful prefix of the conversation rather than
        // a wrong answer, and a failed read is not a reason to fail the send.
        if let Ok(Some(stored)) = self.task_store.get(&task.id).await {
            task.history = stored.history;
        }
    }

    /// Answers a send whose idempotency key was already held by this same
    /// message: a genuine retry, which must return the original task and
    /// execute nothing.
    pub(super) async fn respond_replay(
        &self,
        task: Task,
        streaming: bool,
        response_history_length: Option<u32>,
    ) -> ServerResult<SendMessageResult> {
        let mut snapshot = task;
        shape_response_history(&mut snapshot, response_history_length);

        if !streaming {
            return Ok(SendMessageResult::Response(SendMessageResponse::Task(
                snapshot,
            )));
        }

        // SPEC §3.1.2: the first event of a streaming response MUST be a Task
        // representing the current state. For a replay that is the task the
        // original send created.
        let task_id = snapshot.id.clone();
        let terminal = snapshot.status.state.is_terminal();
        let first = a2a_protocol_types::events::StreamResponse::Task(snapshot);

        let reader = if terminal {
            // It will never emit again, and the status inside the snapshot
            // says so, so one event and end is the whole truth.
            InMemoryQueueReader::snapshot_then_end(first)
        } else {
            // Still running. Attach to its live queue so the caller sees the
            // remaining events, exactly as `SubscribeToTask` would — ending
            // the stream after the snapshot would read as a task that had
            // finished emitting.
            self.event_queue_manager
                .subscribe_with_snapshot(&task_id, first.clone())
                .await
                .unwrap_or_else(|| InMemoryQueueReader::snapshot_then_end(first))
                .with_reattach(self.subscribe_reattach_hook(task_id.clone()))
        };
        Ok(SendMessageResult::Stream(reader))
    }

    /// The response for a streaming or fire-and-forget send, after spawning
    /// the background event processor that drives the task to completion.
    ///
    /// That processor runs independently of any SSE consumer, so for BOTH
    /// modes the task store is updated with state transitions, push
    /// notifications fire for every event, and state transitions are
    /// validated. Fire-and-forget previously spawned neither this processor
    /// nor a persistence channel, so the executor's writes went to a dropped
    /// reader: nothing was persisted and the task was stuck in `Submitted`
    /// forever (no completion, no push). The persistence channel is a
    /// dedicated mpsc channel that is not affected by SSE consumer
    /// backpressure, so the processor never misses a transition (H5).
    pub(super) async fn respond_in_background(
        &self,
        started: Started,
        streaming: bool,
        response_history_length: Option<u32>,
    ) -> SendMessageResult {
        let Started {
            task,
            reader,
            persistence_rx,
            executor_handle,
            cancel,
            gate,
        } = started;
        self.spawn_background_event_processor(
            task.id.clone(),
            executor_handle,
            persistence_rx,
            task.clone(),
            super::super::event_processing::ProcessorLinks { cancel, gate },
        );

        let mut snapshot = task;
        self.hydrate_response_history(&mut snapshot, response_history_length)
            .await;
        shape_response_history(&mut snapshot, response_history_length);
        if streaming {
            // SPEC §3.1.2: The first event in a streaming response MUST be a
            // Task object representing the current state.
            let mut reader = reader;
            reader.set_first_event(StreamResponse::Task(snapshot));
            SendMessageResult::Stream(reader)
        } else {
            // return_immediately: hand back the initial snapshot; the
            // background processor drives the task to completion and clients
            // poll `tasks/get` or rely on push.
            drop(reader);
            SendMessageResult::Response(SendMessageResponse::Task(snapshot))
        }
    }

    /// The response for a blocking send: the reader is polled to the final
    /// event, with the executor handle passed so `collect_events` can detect
    /// executor completion/panic (CB-3).
    pub(super) async fn respond_blocking(
        &self,
        started: Started,
        response_history_length: Option<u32>,
    ) -> ServerResult<SendMessageResult> {
        let Started {
            task,
            reader,
            executor_handle,
            ..
        } = started;
        // On a task of its own, and awaited: if this request's client goes
        // away, the request future is dropped but the collection — the only
        // thing persisting a blocking send's events — runs on to the end
        // (N27). On the background tracker, so shutdown waits for it as it
        // does for the background processor, and in the tenant and span of
        // this call, which `tokio::spawn` would otherwise not carry.
        let collector = self.sync_collector();
        let tenant = crate::store::tenant::TenantContext::current();
        let collection = self
            .in_flight
            .background()
            .spawn(crate::rpc_span::in_current_span(
                crate::store::tenant::TenantContext::scope(tenant, async move {
                    collector
                        .collect_events(reader, task.id, executor_handle)
                        .await
                }),
            ));
        let collected = collection.await.map_err(|e| {
            crate::error::ServerError::Internal(format!("event collection ended abnormally: {e}"))
        })??;

        // SPEC §3.1.1: SendMessage returns "a `Task` object representing
        // the processing of the message, OR a `Message` — a direct
        // response message (for simple interactions that don't require
        // task tracking)". An agent that emitted a message and nothing
        // else is doing exactly that, so answer with the message. The task
        // row still exists and is still fetchable by `GetTask`.
        if let Some(message) = collected.direct_message {
            return Ok(SendMessageResult::Response(SendMessageResponse::Message(
                message,
            )));
        }

        let mut final_task = collected.task;
        self.hydrate_response_history(&mut final_task, response_history_length)
            .await;
        shape_response_history(&mut final_task, response_history_length);
        Ok(SendMessageResult::Response(SendMessageResponse::Task(
            final_task,
        )))
    }
}