fix(translation): recover Responses terminal snapshot output

[grahamking]

Recover text and tool calls from completed Responses snapshots when earlier lifecycle events are missing. Preserve tool identity, emit only missing content, and reject conflicting snapshots.

Previously, if a Responses-compatible upstream places a complete message or function call in response.completed.response.output but omits earlier item/delta lifecycle events, we would preserve the terminal snapshot on the Responses endpoint yet silently discard it while translating to Chat or Anthropic. The translated client receives HTTP 200 and a normal stop reason with an empty answer or no runnable tool call. Fixed by this PR.

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Signed-off-by: Graham King grahamk@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved streamed response handling when final snapshots contain missing or partially streamed output.
  • Prevented duplicate tool-call identities and repeated argument data during streaming.
  • Added error handling for conflicting streamed content and snapshots.
  • Improved decoding of message text and tool-call output items at completion.

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Walkthrough

The Responses stream decoder now records streamed text and tool state, reconciles terminal snapshots, emits only missing content, and reports conflicting tool arguments. Tests cover missing or partial output across Chat and Anthropic translations.

Changes

Responses stream reconciliation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Decoded stream state crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/stream.rs	The translation state records decoded Responses text by output and content index. Tool state records whether tool identity was decoded.
Text snapshot reconciliation crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs	Text deltas are stored before emission. Final output items use shared completion decoding and emit only snapshot suffixes.
Tool snapshot reconciliation and validation crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs	Tool completion suppresses duplicate identity and arguments, reports conflicting snapshots as stream errors, and tests recovery across stream completeness modes and targets.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 919a3

A malformed tool-call event can still produce a tool call without usable identity, but conforming Responses events are unaffected. The remaining issues are bounded and suitable for follow-up.

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Snapshots now reveal what the stream knows
Tool names appear just once
Arguments avoid a second dance
Conflicts stop the final flow
Bouncy tests confirm the show}

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs (1)

700-704: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add a comment for the shared completion helper.

decode_responses_completed_item now serves two callers with different index sources: response.output_item.done (event output_index) and each item of the response.completed snapshot (array position). State a short note on that dual role and on the suffix-only emission contract.

As per coding guidelines: "For Rust changes, add concise comments for module/file intent, public structs/enums, public methods, private helpers with non-obvious behavior".

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In `@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs` around lines
700 - 704, Add a concise comment above decode_responses_completed_item
explaining that it handles both output_index values from
response.output_item.done events and array positions from response.completed
snapshots, and that it emits only the completion suffix.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs`:
- Around line 648-652: Update both identity-flag assignments in the added-item
path and decode_responses_completed_item so has_decoded_identity becomes sticky
only when the item has non-empty name and a non-empty effective call_id or id;
otherwise preserve its existing value and allow later valid snapshots to restore
identity.

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In `@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs`:
- Around line 700-704: Add a concise comment above
decode_responses_completed_item explaining that it handles both output_index
values from response.output_item.done events and array positions from
response.completed snapshots, and that it emits only the completion suffix.

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[ayushag-nv]

lgtm

one P2 correctness issue highlighted by Astra

Could we cover partial tool identity end-to-end? If an early event has name="get_weather" but no ID, the Anthropic encoder opens the tool block with a generated ID. When the final snapshot supplies call_id="call_1", recovery updates internal state, but the client still has the generated ID. That can break tool-result continuation. We should buffer the incomplete identity until both fields are available; the current decoder-only assertions miss this.

[grahamking]

lgtm

one P2 correctness issue highlighted by Astra

Could we cover partial tool identity end-to-end? If an early event has name="get_weather" but no ID, the Anthropic encoder opens the tool block with a generated ID. When the final snapshot supplies call_id="call_1", recovery updates internal state, but the client still has the generated ID. That can break tool-result continuation. We should buffer the incomplete identity until both fields are available; the current decoder-only assertions miss this.

Nice catch Ayush's Astra! I'm having my Astra fix it now :lol: