a2a-protocol-server 0.14.1

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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//! The send path's half of client-supplied idempotency keys.
//!
//! The wire shape and the key rules live in
//! [`a2a_protocol_types::idempotency`]; the atomic claim lives on
//! [`TaskStore`](crate::store::TaskStore). This module is what connects them
//! to a send.

use a2a_protocol_types::idempotency::{
    IDEMPOTENCY_EXTENSION_URI, IDEMPOTENCY_METADATA_KEY, key_of,
};
use a2a_protocol_types::message::Message;
use a2a_protocol_types::task::{Task, TaskId};

use crate::error::{ServerError, ServerResult};
use crate::handler::RequestHandler;
use crate::store::task_store::IdempotencyClaim;

/// What a send's idempotency key means for the rest of the send.
pub(super) enum SendKey {
    /// The message carried no key. Proceed exactly as before.
    Absent,
    /// The key was free and is now held by this send. It must be released if
    /// the send goes on to fail.
    Claimed(String),
    /// The key was already held by this same message: a genuine retry. Return
    /// this task and execute nothing.
    Replay(Box<Task>),
}

impl RequestHandler {
    /// Reads the send's idempotency key, if any, and claims it.
    ///
    /// Called under the per-context lock, after the task id is resolved and
    /// before the first side effect of the send, so that two racing
    /// duplicates cannot both get past it.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// * [`ServerError::InvalidParams`] when the key is malformed, or when it
    ///   is held by a different message — a reused key, which is never a
    ///   retry.
    /// * [`ServerError::UnsupportedOperation`] when the configured store
    ///   cannot honour keys. Ignoring the key instead would give the caller
    ///   silent at-least-once delivery, which is the outcome presenting a key
    ///   is meant to rule out.
    /// * [`ServerError::TaskNotFound`] when the key names a task that no
    ///   longer exists, which a retention sweep can cause.
    pub(super) async fn claim_send_key(
        &self,
        message: &Message,
        task_id: &TaskId,
    ) -> ServerResult<SendKey> {
        let key = match key_of(message) {
            Ok(None) => return Ok(SendKey::Absent),
            Ok(Some(key)) => key,
            Err(err) => return Err(ServerError::InvalidParams(err.to_string())),
        };

        if !self.task_store.supports_idempotency() {
            return Err(ServerError::UnsupportedOperation(format!(
                "this server's task store cannot honour `{IDEMPOTENCY_METADATA_KEY}`, so the \
                 send was refused rather than executed without deduplication; the agent card \
                 does not advertise `{IDEMPOTENCY_EXTENSION_URI}`"
            )));
        }

        match self
            .task_store
            .claim_idempotency_key(key, &message.id, task_id)
            .await?
        {
            IdempotencyClaim::Claimed => Ok(SendKey::Claimed(key.to_owned())),
            IdempotencyClaim::Replay(existing) => {
                let task = self.await_claimed_task(&existing).await?;
                Ok(SendKey::Replay(Box::new(task)))
            }
            IdempotencyClaim::Conflict { held_by } => Err(ServerError::InvalidParams(format!(
                "idempotency key is already held by message `{held_by}`. A retry resends the \
                 identical message, so a different message id means the key was reused across \
                 two distinct sends. Returning the first task here would answer a message that \
                 was never sent."
            ))),
        }
    }

    /// Reads the task a replayed key names, waiting briefly for it to appear.
    ///
    /// The claim commits before the task row is written — it has to, or two
    /// racing duplicates would each get past the claim and both execute — so
    /// there is a window in which the winner holds the key and its task does
    /// not yet exist. The per-context lock does not close it: a send that
    /// carries no `context_id` gets a freshly minted one, so two duplicates of
    /// the *same* message take two different locks and run concurrently. That
    /// is precisely the case idempotency exists for, which is why the window
    /// is reachable rather than theoretical.
    ///
    /// Without the wait the loser was told `TaskNotFound` for a task that
    /// existed milliseconds later — and that error's own documentation
    /// attributes it to a retention sweep, so a caller following the
    /// documented semantics concluded the task was permanently gone.
    ///
    /// Bounded, and the fallback is unchanged: a key really does outlive its
    /// task (see the index's own note), so a retry arriving after the task was
    /// swept still lands on `TaskNotFound`. That is the conservative
    /// direction — dropping the key instead would let the send execute a
    /// second time.
    async fn await_claimed_task(&self, existing: &TaskId) -> ServerResult<Task> {
        // Ten attempts over ~250ms. The window is one lock acquisition plus
        // the store writes between the claim and `persist_initial_task`, so
        // the first or second read resolves it in practice; the budget is for
        // a loaded database, not for a task that is never coming.
        const ATTEMPTS: u32 = 10;
        const INTERVAL: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_millis(25);

        // Read, then wait-and-read nine more times. Ten reads and nine waits,
        // exactly as a single loop with an `attempt + 1 < ATTEMPTS` guard
        // around the sleep gave — but without the guard, whose only job was
        // to skip the last sleep. Every weakening of it (`<` to `<=`, `==`
        // or `>`, and `+` to `*`) changed how long a *failing* wait takes and
        // nothing a caller can observe, so all four were equivalent mutants;
        // the incremental mutation gate on this pull request reported them
        // surviving (shard 4 of run 35523981742). Putting the waits between
        // the reads removes the guard instead of exempting it.
        if let Some(task) = self.task_store.get(existing).await? {
            return Ok(task);
        }
        for _ in 1..ATTEMPTS {
            tokio::time::sleep(INTERVAL).await;
            if let Some(task) = self.task_store.get(existing).await? {
                return Ok(task);
            }
        }
        Err(ServerError::TaskNotFound(existing.clone()))
    }

    /// Releases a key this send claimed, because the send then failed.
    ///
    /// Best effort by design: the caller is already returning an error, and a
    /// store failure here must not replace it with a less useful one. A key
    /// that survives a failed release is still recoverable — the caller's
    /// retry sees [`ServerError::TaskNotFound`] rather than a silent second
    /// execution — so the conservative direction is to log and move on.
    pub(super) async fn release_send_key(&self, key: &str) {
        if let Err(_err) = self.task_store.release_idempotency_key(key).await {
            trace_warn!(
                error = %_err,
                "failed to release an idempotency key after a failed send; a retry of \
                 that key will report its task as missing rather than re-executing"
            );
        }
    }
}