fix(grpc): deliver tool calls when a JSON-schema tool constraint meets a thinking model - #2122
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…s a thinking model With tool_choice "required" or a named function (no structural-tag parser), the engine output is grammar-forced JSON, yet the pipeline pre-armed the reasoning parser whenever the template's thinking toggle was on. The armed parser never saw a think-end token and classified the whole payload as reasoning: no tool_calls, empty content, finish_reason "stop". Broken on chat and messages, streaming and non-streaming. - Pre-arm the reasoning parser under a JSON-schema tool constraint only for genuine think-in-prefill templates; toggle templates (Qwen3, GLM, ...) emit an explicit <think> when engines reason before the constrained payload. - Non-streaming: an all-reasoning parse under the constraint is impossible; hand the original text back to tool parsing (split_reasoning_result). - Streaming: if a still-armed parser consumed the payload, parse the buffered raw text at end of stream and emit the tool-call deltas. - Detect think-in-prefill only for an unclosed <think> in the generation prompt: Qwen3's thinking-off '<think>\n\n</think>' filler misclassified the template and kept the pre-arm alive. Verified on a B300 node (vLLM gRPC, Qwen3-0.6B): required/named tool_choice now returns tool_calls with finish_reason "tool_calls" on both OpenAI and Anthropic surfaces; auto and thinking-off behavior unchanged. Signed-off-by: key4ng <rukeyang@gmail.com>
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WalkthroughThe change detects unclosed think tags, coordinates JSON-schema constraints with reasoning parsing, recovers constrained tool calls during Chat and Messages streaming, and adds Qwen3 regression tests for required weather tool calls. ChangesConstrained tool reasoning
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟠 High · up to The change improves constrained tool delivery for thinking models, but unresolved correctness risks remain: streaming responses may duplicate content or incompletely parse tool payloads, some templates may still be misclassified, and named-function behavior lacks direct regression coverage. The PR is not merge-ready until the streaming and template issues are addressed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant ChatOrMessagesStream
participant ReasoningParser
participant ToolParser
participant SSE
Client->>ChatOrMessagesStream: send JSON-schema-constrained tool request
ChatOrMessagesStream->>ReasoningParser: initialize with constraint state
ChatOrMessagesStream->>ChatOrMessagesStream: buffer constrained output
ChatOrMessagesStream->>ToolParser: recover tool call at stream end
ToolParser->>SSE: emit tool-call events
SSE->>Client: return tool call and tool_calls finish reason
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| pub(crate) fn should_start_in_reasoning( | ||
| user_thinking: Option<bool>, | ||
| tokenizer: &dyn Tokenizer, | ||
| used_json_schema: bool, | ||
| ) -> bool { | ||
| should_mark_reasoning_started(user_thinking, tokenizer) | ||
| && (tokenizer.think_in_prefill() || !used_json_schema) | ||
| } |
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🟡 Nit: The parameter is named used_json_schema but every caller passes tool_constraint_active (used_json_schema && tools.is_some()). The doc comment accurately says "under a JSON-schema tool constraint," which matches tool_constraint_active, not bare used_json_schema. Since used_json_schema can be true without any tools present (e.g. tool_choice: "required" with no tools array), a future caller passing just used_json_schema would suppress the pre-arm incorrectly. Same applies to split_reasoning_result below.
Consider renaming to tool_constraint_active (or constrained) to match the callers and the doc.
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Clean, well-tested fix. The gating logic in should_start_in_reasoning, the non-streaming recovery in split_reasoning_result, and the streaming end-of-stream recovery paths are all correct across all four surfaces. One naming nit on the helper parameter.
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257-277: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win🔴 Important Track think-tag state across sibling statements.
Line 260 returns
truebefore later sibling statements are inspected. A template can emit<think>and</think>in separate literals. That closed prefill is classified as mid-reasoning. The gateway then pre-arms the reasoning parser and can classify constrained tool JSON as reasoning again.Track ordered tag state across the complete
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In `@e2e_test/chat_completions/test_function_calling.py`:
- Around line 1618-1626: Update test_required_non_streaming and the
corresponding streaming test to parameterize tool_choice with both "required"
and the named get_weather function choice. For each parameter, verify the
recovery path produces the expected tool call and finish_reason, preserving the
existing request assertions.
In `@model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/streaming.rs`:
- Around line 673-724: Route text released by stop_decoder.flush() through
constrained tool recovery before emitting assistant content. In
model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/streaming.rs:673-724, process the final
flushed text with the same recovery path; in
model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/streaming.rs:2440-2528, append it to
constrained_raw_text and avoid opening a text block when it is recovered as
tool_use. Add Chat and Messages streaming tests covering JSON bytes released
only during stop_decoder.flush().
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In `@crates/tokenizer/src/chat_template.rs`:
- Around line 257-277: Update body_has_think_tag to scan statements in order and
track whether an opening think tag remains unclosed across sibling EmitRaw,
constant EmitExpr, and conditional bodies, rather than returning true
immediately on any opening tag. Treat a later closing tag as clearing that
state, and add a test covering opening and closing tags split across separate
raw or constant expressions.
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| def test_required_non_streaming(self, model, api_client): | ||
| response = api_client.chat.completions.create( | ||
| model=model, | ||
| max_tokens=512, | ||
| messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is the weather in Paris right now?"}], | ||
| stream=False, | ||
| tools=THINKING_WEATHER_TOOLS, | ||
| tool_choice="required", | ||
| ) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
🟡 Nit Add named-function tool-choice coverage. Both requests use tool_choice="required". They do not exercise tool_choice={"type":"function","function":{"name":"get_weather"}}, which is also part of this fix. Parametrize both tests with required and named choices so each recovery path verifies the tool call and finish_reason.
As per coding guidelines, “Run the pr-test-analyzer agent to verify that tests adequately cover new or changed functionality.”
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In `@e2e_test/chat_completions/test_function_calling.py` around lines 1618 - 1626,
Update test_required_non_streaming and the corresponding streaming test to
parameterize tool_choice with both "required" and the named get_weather function
choice. For each parameter, verify the recovery path produces the expected tool
call and finish_reason, preserving the existing request assertions.
Source: Coding guidelines
| // Phase 3.5: JSON-schema constraint recovery. An engine that enforces | ||
| // the tool grammar from the first token emits pure JSON; a pre-armed | ||
| // (think-in-prefill) parser then classifies the whole payload as | ||
| // reasoning and the tool stage never runs. The buffered raw text is | ||
| // the tool payload — parse it so tool calls are still delivered. | ||
| if tool_constraint_active { | ||
| for (index, buffer) in &stream_buffers { | ||
| if buffer.is_empty() || has_tool_calls.get(index).copied().unwrap_or(false) { | ||
| continue; | ||
| } | ||
| let still_in_reasoning = match reasoning_parsers.get(index) { | ||
| Some(parser) => parser.lock().await.is_in_reasoning(), | ||
| None => false, | ||
| }; | ||
| if !still_in_reasoning { | ||
| continue; | ||
| } | ||
| let (calls, _) = utils::parse_json_schema_response( | ||
| buffer, | ||
| tool_choice.as_ref(), | ||
| model, | ||
| history_tool_calls_count, | ||
| ); | ||
| let Some(calls) = calls else { continue }; | ||
| if calls.is_empty() { | ||
| continue; | ||
| } | ||
| for (call_index, call) in calls.into_iter().enumerate() { | ||
| let tool_call_delta = ToolCallDelta { | ||
| index: call_index as u32, | ||
| id: Some(call.id), | ||
| tool_type: Some("function".to_string()), | ||
| function: Some(FunctionCallDelta { | ||
| name: Some(call.function.name), | ||
| arguments: call.function.arguments, | ||
| }), | ||
| }; | ||
| let tool_chunk = ChatCompletionStreamResponse::builder(request_id, model) | ||
| .created(created) | ||
| .add_choice_tool_call_delta(*index, tool_call_delta) | ||
| .maybe_system_fingerprint(system_fingerprint) | ||
| .build(); | ||
| let sse_chunk = sse_encoder | ||
| .encode_data(&tool_chunk) | ||
| .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to serialize recovered tool chunk: {e}"))?; | ||
| tx.send(Ok(sse_chunk)) | ||
| .await | ||
| .map_err(|_| "Failed to send recovered tool chunk".to_string())?; | ||
| } | ||
| has_tool_calls.insert(*index, true); | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
🔴 Important Route final stop-decoder text through constrained recovery.
Text returned only by stop_decoder.flush() bypasses reasoning and tool parsing. Chat sends that text as assistant content before it emits recovered tool calls. Messages does not append that text to constrained_raw_text, so recovery can parse an incomplete JSON payload.
model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/streaming.rs#L673-L724: process final flushed text through the constrained recovery path before emitting assistant content.model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/streaming.rs#L2440-L2528: append final flushed text to the recovery buffer and prevent it from opening a text block when it is recovered astool_use.
Add Chat and Messages streaming tests where the final JSON bytes are released only during stop_decoder.flush().
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model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/streaming.rs#L673-L724(this comment)model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/streaming.rs#L2440-L2528
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In `@model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/streaming.rs` around lines 673 - 724,
Route text released by stop_decoder.flush() through constrained tool recovery
before emitting assistant content. In
model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/streaming.rs:673-724, process the final
flushed text with the same recovery path; in
model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/streaming.rs:2440-2528, append it to
constrained_raw_text and avoid opening a text block when it is recovered as
tool_use. Add Chat and Messages streaming tests covering JSON bytes released
only during stop_decoder.flush().
Additional validation: SGLang gRPC backendRan the same before/after matrix against an SGLang worker to confirm the fix introduces no regression on the SGLang path (
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…king e2e class - needless_raw_string_hashes on the new chat-template detection test (test targets are linted in CI but were outside the local --lib run). - TokenSpeed's cold-start kernel compilation for Qwen3-30B-A3B exceeds the worker launch timeout on the 1-GPU rig; the class keeps sglang/vllm/trtllm, all of which passed. Signed-off-by: key4ng <rukeyang@gmail.com>
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Problem
With
tool_choice: "required"(or a named function) and a tool parser that has no structural tag, the gateway sends the engine a JSON-schema grammar constraint, so the completion is pure JSON — no think tokens can appear. But for thinking models (e.g. Qwen3, whoseenable_thinkingtemplate toggle defaults on), the gRPC pipeline also pre-armed the reasoning parser viamark_reasoning_started(). The armed parser never saw a think-end token and classified the entire grammar-forced tool payload as truncated reasoning:tool_calls: null,content: nullreasoning_contentfinish_reason: "stop"instead of"tool_calls"Broken on both the OpenAI chat and Anthropic messages surfaces, streaming and non-streaming. Any thinking-toggle template family is affected, not just Qwen.
A compounding bug: the chat-template detector flagged Qwen3 as think-in-prefill because its generation prompt contains
<think>\n\n</think>— a closed filler emitted only when thinking is disabled — so the pre-arm survived even where it never should have applied.Solution
utils::should_start_in_reasoning): under a JSON-schema tool constraint, only genuine think-in-prefill templates keep the pre-arm (their completions really start mid-reasoning on thinking-aware engines, e.g. sglang honoringrequire_reasoning). Toggle templates emit an explicit<think>whenever reasoning does happen, so the un-armed parser still catches it.utils::split_reasoning_result): under the constraint an all-reasoning parse is impossible — hand the original text back to the tool stage. Covers think-in-prefill templates on engines that enforce the grammar from the first token (vLLM).tool_callsand the finish reason are still delivered. Applied to both chat (per-index,n>1-safe) and messages streaming.think_in_prefillnow requires an unclosed<think>in theadd_generation_promptbody.Requests without a JSON-schema tool constraint (
auto,none, no tools) take exactly the same code path as before. Parser crates are untouched — the wrong decisions lived in the gateway pipeline.Changes
model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/utils/parsers.rs: newshould_start_in_reasoning/split_reasoning_resulthelpers + unit tests.model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/processor.rs: chat + messages non-streaming paths use gated arming and the recovery split;used_json_schemahoisted above reasoning parsing.model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/streaming.rs: chat + messages streaming paths use gated arming; end-of-stream JSON-schema constraint recovery.crates/tokenizer/src/chat_template.rs: think-in-prefill detection requires an unclosed<think>; unit test for the Qwen3-style closed filler vs open-tag templates.e2e_test/chat_completions/test_function_calling.py: newTestToolChoiceRequiredThinking(streaming + non-streaming) on a thinking model — existing required-mode coverage only used a non-thinking Qwen, which is why this was never caught.Test Plan
Reproduced and validated on a B300 node: vLLM gRPC backend (
vllm.entrypoints.grpc_server),Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B, gateway--tool-call-parser qwen --reasoning-parser qwen3, same request matrix before/after on this branch's base.Request:
get_weathertool, "What is the weather in Paris right now?",max_tokens: 512.required, non-streamingfinish: "stop",tool_calls: null, JSON inreasoning_contenttool_calls: [get_weather {"city":"Paris"}],finish: "tool_calls", no reasoningrequired, streamingreasoning_contentdeltas, no tool deltasfinish: "tool_calls", zero reasoning leakreasoning_contenttool_calls,finish: "tool_calls"tool_choice: {type: "any"}(+ streaming)tool_useblock with input,stop_reason: "tool_use"auto(control)required+enable_thinking: false(control)Unit tests:
cargo test -p smg --lib routers::grpc::utils::parsers,cargo test -p llm-tokenizer --lib chat_template. Full workspacecargo testpasses.Checklist
cargo +nightly fmtpassescargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warningspasses