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Description

Enhances the event consumer to gracefully handle pydantic.ValidationError by logging the error and continuing execution instead of crashing. This improves the reliability of the event stream processing.

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  • src/a2a/server/events/event_consumer.py: Added specific except block for ValidationError.
  • tests/server/events/test_event_consumer.py: Added a test case to verify the new error handling logic.

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Summary of Changes

Hello @pankaj-bind, I'm Gemini Code Assist1! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

This pull request enhances the robustness of the event consumer by introducing specific error handling for pydantic.ValidationError. The primary goal is to prevent the consumer from crashing due to malformed events, ensuring continuous and reliable processing of the event stream by logging validation issues and continuing execution.

Highlights

  • Improved Error Handling: The event consumer's consume_all method now specifically catches pydantic.ValidationError. This prevents the consumer from crashing when it encounters an event with an invalid format, allowing it to gracefully handle such situations.
  • Enhanced Reliability: Upon catching a ValidationError, the consumer logs the error message and continues processing the event stream. This ensures that a single malformed event does not halt the entire consumption process, significantly improving the reliability of the event stream processing.
  • New Test Coverage: A new asynchronous test case, test_consume_all_handles_validation_error, has been added. This test simulates a ValidationError during event dequeuing and asserts that the error is logged correctly and that the consumer continues its operation, verifying the new error handling logic.
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Code Review

This pull request enhances the event consumer's resilience by implementing specific error handling for pydantic.ValidationError. The consumer now logs validation errors and continues processing, preventing disruptions from malformed events. A test case has been added to verify this behavior, and a suggestion has been provided to enhance the test's comprehensiveness.

@holtskinner holtskinner changed the title feat(server): Improve event consumer error handling fix(server): Improve event consumer error handling Jul 8, 2025
@holtskinner holtskinner enabled auto-merge (squash) July 8, 2025 20:42
@holtskinner holtskinner merged commit a5786a1 into a2aproject:main Jul 8, 2025
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[0.2.12](v0.2.11...v0.2.12)
(2025-07-14)


### Features

* add `metadata` property to `RequestContext`
([#302](#302))
([e781ced](e781ced))
* add A2ABaseModel
([#292](#292))
([24f2eb0](24f2eb0))
* add support for notification tokens in PushNotificationSender
([#266](#266))
([75aa4ed](75aa4ed))
* Update A2A types from specification 🤖
([#289](#289))
([ecb321a](ecb321a))


### Bug Fixes

* add proper a2a request body documentation to Swagger UI
([#276](#276))
([4343be9](4343be9)),
closes [#274](#274)
* Handle asyncio.cancellederror and raise to propagate back
([#293](#293))
([9d6cb68](9d6cb68))
* Improve error handling in task creation
([#294](#294))
([6412c75](6412c75))
* Resolve dependency issue with sql stores
([#303](#303))
([2126828](2126828))
* Send push notifications for message/send
([#298](#298))
([0274112](0274112))
* **server:** Improve event consumer error handling
([#282](#282))
([a5786a1](a5786a1))

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