fix(translation): harden Responses compatibility

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Summary

• emit schema-complete OpenAI Responses stream snapshots with sequence numbers
• retain assistant message IDs through output item completion and the terminal response
• accept message-shaped Responses inputs without an explicit type discriminator
• reject ambiguous discriminator-less input objects instead of silently degrading them to prompt text

Root cause

The Responses stream encoder assembled terminal events as partial JSON objects rather than a typed response snapshot, omitting fields required by strict generated clients. It also did not carry the generated message item ID into the done and terminal objects. Separately, the request decoder only recognized messages when type: "message" was present, so otherwise-valid OpenAI/OpenRouter inputs fell through to unknown-content handling.

Impact

Strict clients can recognize response.completed, replay streamed output items, and submit compatible message inputs without a discriminator. Invalid discriminator-less objects now fail with a path-specific translation error.

Verification

• cargo clippy -p switchyard-translation --all-targets -- -D warnings
• cargo test --workspace --exclude switchyard-py
• uv run ruff check .
• uv run pytest tests/ -q (139 passed)

The regression cases are based on captured Switchyard Responses payloads and cover required terminal fields, monotonic sequence numbers, stable message IDs, implicit messages, and ambiguous missing-type inputs.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Improved Responses input compatibility by supporting legacy message items without a type field.
  • Added validation for invalid or ambiguous item types with clearer errors.
  • Enhanced streaming responses with sequential event numbers, complete response snapshots, and generated message IDs.

• Bug Fixes

  • Ensured replayed streams preserve event ordering and completion state.
  • Completed response snapshots now include all required metadata and usage fields.

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Walkthrough

The change validates Responses input discriminators and supports qualifying legacy messages. It also adds sequence numbers, replay state handling, schema-complete stream snapshots, generated output message IDs, and tests for these behaviors.

Changes

Responses Translation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Responses input discriminator validation crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/request_translation.rs	Input items validate type values. Message-shaped items without type remain supported. Other discriminator-less items return a path-specific validation error.
Stream sequencing and response snapshots crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/stream.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs	The stream state tracks response sequence numbers. Generated and replayed events preserve sequence and terminal state. Created and completed snapshots include required fields and generated message IDs.
Streaming translation coverage crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs	Tests verify terminal response fields, sequential event numbers, completed output items, and consistent msg_0 identifiers.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to dcd65

The change improves Responses compatibility, but replayed streams can still reuse sequence numbers when one source event expands into multiple emitted events, which may cause clients to misorder or reject streamed output. This bounded correctness issue should be fixed before merging.

Poem

I’m a rabbit with a tidy stream,
Counting each event like a dream.
Legacy messages find their place,
Snapshots show every required face.
msg_0 hops through the trace,
While errors guard the input space.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

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

61-61: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document StreamTranslationState.

Line 61 extends the public StreamTranslationState, but the type has no /// documentation. Add a concise type-level doc comment that states its purpose and lifecycle invariants.

As per coding guidelines: “In Rust, use /// doc comments for public items.”

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In `@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/stream.rs` at line 61, Add a concise
Rust `///` type-level documentation comment for `StreamTranslationState`
describing its purpose and lifecycle invariants, placing it directly above the
type declaration. Keep the existing fields and behavior unchanged.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs`:
- Around line 38-68: Update observe_replayed_event so the fallback
sequence-number advancement uses the number of replayed events emitted by
encode_responses_stream rather than always incrementing by one; preserve the raw
sequence_number path unchanged and ensure the next live event starts after all
replayed object events.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/stream.rs`:
- Line 61: Add a concise Rust `///` type-level documentation comment for
`StreamTranslationState` describing its purpose and lifecycle invariants,
placing it directly above the type declaration. Keep the existing fields and
behavior unchanged.

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• crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/buffered.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/responses/stream.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/stream.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/tests/request_translation.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs