a2a-protocol-server 0.8.0

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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//! Mid-stream error frames must stay within their binding's envelope.
//!
//! The SSE writer wraps every *success* frame for the JSON-RPC binding in a
//! `JsonRpcSuccessResponse` (§9.4.2 — the envelope echoes the request id), but
//! historically emitted *error* frames as a bare `A2aError` on both bindings.
//! A spec-conformant JSON-RPC client cannot parse that: the payload carries
//! neither `result` nor `error`, so the client reports a deserialization
//! failure instead of the error the server was trying to convey.
//!
//! This is how it surfaced: the `backpressure/stream_volume/502_events`
//! benchmark drove enough events to overflow the broadcast ring, the reader
//! produced the `streamLagged` error added in 0.7.0, and the client panicked
//! with
//!
//! ```text
//! Serialization(Error("JSON-RPC 2.0 response carries neither `result` nor
//! `error`; §5 requires exactly one"))
//! ```
//!
//! — i.e. the 0.7.0 truncation signal was unreadable by this SDK's own client,
//! and by any other conformant one. The tests below pin the wire format for
//! both bindings so it cannot regress.

use bytes::Bytes;
use http_body_util::BodyExt;

use a2a_protocol_server::streaming::event_queue::new_in_memory_queue_with_capacity;
use a2a_protocol_server::streaming::{build_sse_response, EventQueueWriter};
use a2a_protocol_types::events::{StreamResponse, TaskStatusUpdateEvent};
use a2a_protocol_types::task::{ContextId, TaskId, TaskState, TaskStatus};

/// Ring capacity small enough that overflowing it is deterministic.
const TINY_CAPACITY: usize = 2;

fn status_event(n: usize) -> StreamResponse {
    StreamResponse::StatusUpdate(TaskStatusUpdateEvent {
        task_id: TaskId::new(format!("task-{n}")),
        context_id: ContextId::new("ctx-1"),
        status: TaskStatus::new(TaskState::Working),
        metadata: None,
    })
}

/// Drives an SSE response whose reader is guaranteed to have lagged, and
/// returns the raw body bytes exactly as they go on the wire.
///
/// Overflowing the ring *before* the reader is polled is what makes this
/// deterministic: `build_sse_response` reads only after the writes land, so
/// `recv()` returns `Lagged` on its first call rather than racing the writer.
async fn lagged_stream_body(jsonrpc_envelope: bool) -> String {
    let (writer, reader) = new_in_memory_queue_with_capacity(TINY_CAPACITY);

    // Write more than the ring holds, with nothing draining it.
    for n in 0..(TINY_CAPACITY * 4) {
        writer
            .write(status_event(n))
            .await
            .expect("write should succeed");
    }
    drop(writer); // close the channel so the stream terminates

    let envelope_id = if jsonrpc_envelope {
        Some(Some(serde_json::json!(1)))
    } else {
        None
    };
    let response = build_sse_response(reader, None, None, envelope_id);
    let bytes: Bytes = response
        .into_body()
        .collect()
        .await
        .expect("collect body")
        .to_bytes();
    String::from_utf8(bytes.to_vec()).expect("SSE body is UTF-8")
}

/// Extracts the `data:` payload of the first `event: error` frame.
fn error_frame_data(body: &str) -> Option<serde_json::Value> {
    let mut saw_error_event = false;
    for line in body.lines() {
        if line.trim() == "event: error" {
            saw_error_event = true;
        } else if saw_error_event {
            if let Some(data) = line.strip_prefix("data: ") {
                return serde_json::from_str(data).ok();
            }
        }
    }
    None
}

// ── JSON-RPC binding ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

#[tokio::test]
async fn jsonrpc_stream_error_is_a_jsonrpc_error_response() {
    let body = lagged_stream_body(true).await;
    let data = error_frame_data(&body)
        .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("no `event: error` frame in body:\n{body}"));

    // §9.4.2: stream frames are JSON-RPC envelopes. An error frame is a
    // JSON-RPC *error response*, not a bare A2aError — a client parsing this
    // stream has no way to know the payload changed shape mid-stream.
    assert_eq!(
        data.get("jsonrpc").and_then(serde_json::Value::as_str),
        Some("2.0"),
        "error frame must carry the JSON-RPC version; body:\n{body}"
    );
    assert!(
        data.get("error").is_some(),
        "error frame must carry an `error` member; body:\n{body}"
    );
    assert!(
        data.get("result").is_none(),
        "§5 requires exactly one of result/error; body:\n{body}"
    );
    assert_eq!(
        data.get("id"),
        Some(&serde_json::json!(1)),
        "§9.4.2: the envelope echoes the originating request id; body:\n{body}"
    );

    // The lag error's machine-readable marker must survive the wrapping,
    // since that is how a client tells truncation from an executor failure.
    let err = &data["error"];
    assert!(
        err.get("data")
            .and_then(|d| d.get("streamLagged"))
            .is_some(),
        "the streamLagged marker must survive enveloping; body:\n{body}"
    );
}

/// The exact failure the 502-event benchmark hit: a conformant JSON-RPC
/// client deserializing the frame must succeed and see an error.
#[tokio::test]
async fn jsonrpc_stream_error_deserializes_as_a_jsonrpc_response() {
    use a2a_protocol_types::jsonrpc::JsonRpcResponse;

    let body = lagged_stream_body(true).await;
    let data = error_frame_data(&body).expect("error frame");
    let raw = serde_json::to_string(&data).expect("re-serialize");

    let parsed: JsonRpcResponse<serde_json::Value> =
        serde_json::from_str(&raw).unwrap_or_else(|e| {
            panic!("a conformant client must parse this frame, got: {e}\nframe: {raw}")
        });
    assert!(
        matches!(parsed, JsonRpcResponse::Error(_)),
        "frame should parse as a JSON-RPC error response, got: {parsed:?}"
    );
}

// ── REST binding ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

#[tokio::test]
async fn rest_stream_error_stays_a_bare_a2a_error() {
    let body = lagged_stream_body(false).await;
    let data = error_frame_data(&body)
        .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("no `event: error` frame in body:\n{body}"));

    // §11.7: the REST binding streams bare payloads with no envelope, so its
    // error frame is the A2aError itself. Asserted so that fixing the
    // JSON-RPC binding cannot silently change REST too.
    assert!(
        data.get("jsonrpc").is_none(),
        "REST frames carry no JSON-RPC envelope; body:\n{body}"
    );
    assert!(
        data.get("code").is_some() && data.get("message").is_some(),
        "REST error frame should be a bare A2aError; body:\n{body}"
    );
    assert!(
        data.get("data")
            .and_then(|d| d.get("streamLagged"))
            .is_some(),
        "the streamLagged marker must be present; body:\n{body}"
    );
}