fix(llm): raise on response_model conversion failure in streaming - #7114
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_handle_streaming_response ran instructor's to_pydantic() inside the same try/except that salvages partial content from a broken stream. A conversion failure (valid stream, output doesn't match the schema) was caught by that except and returned as raw prose instead of raising, so callers who asked for structured output could silently get a string back. Wrap the conversion in its own try and re-raise as _ResponseModelConversionError, then let that type pass the outer except unchanged, mirroring the existing LLMContextLengthExceededError pattern. Non-streaming and async non-streaming paths already raise correctly and are untouched; async streaming doesn't attempt response_model conversion at all (tracked separately in crewAIInc#6733). Fixes crewAIInc#6735
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughStreaming response-model conversion failures now use a dedicated exception. The streaming handler re-raises this exception instead of returning partial text. A regression test verifies that ChangesStreaming conversion error handling
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR makes synchronous streaming schema-conversion failures raise as intended, but a provider-specific serialization failure can still fall back to raw text instead of surfacing the error; the change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and a follow-up to move serialization inside the conversion boundary. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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1110-1111: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDocument the propagated response-model error.
LLM.callnow propagates_ResponseModelConversionError, but itsRaisessection at Line [1870]-Line [1874] does not describe response-model conversion failures. Document the new error behavior and the exception type callers should handle.As per coding guidelines, document public APIs and complex logic.
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In `@lib/crewai/src/crewai/llm.py`:
- Around line 1057-1064: The response-model serialization in the streaming
conversion path is outside the conversion error boundary. Move
result.model_dump_json() inside the existing try block around
instructor_instance.to_pydantic() so serialization failures are wrapped and
propagated as _ResponseModelConversionError rather than returning raw
full_response.
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In `@lib/crewai/src/crewai/llm.py`:
- Around line 1110-1111: Update the Raises documentation for LLM.call to
describe that response-model conversion failures propagate as
_ResponseModelConversionError, so callers know which exception type to handle;
leave the existing exception behavior unchanged.
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| try: | ||
| result = instructor_instance.to_pydantic() | ||
| except Exception as e: | ||
| raise _ResponseModelConversionError( | ||
| f"Failed to convert streaming response to " | ||
| f"{response_model.__name__}: {e!s}" | ||
| ) from e | ||
| structured_response = result.model_dump_json() |
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rg -n -C 4 '_ResponseModelConversionError|def call|model_dump_json|full_response|structured_response' lib/crewai/src/crewai/llm.py
printf '%s\n' '--- target section ---'
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Keep response-model serialization inside the conversion error boundary.
When response_model and self.is_litellm is true, result.model_dump_json() runs outside the try block. If serialization raises, the outer handler can return full_response as raw text instead of raising the conversion error. Move serialization into the same try block.
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In `@lib/crewai/src/crewai/llm.py` around lines 1057 - 1064, The response-model
serialization in the streaming conversion path is outside the conversion error
boundary. Move result.model_dump_json() inside the existing try block around
instructor_instance.to_pydantic() so serialization failures are wrapped and
propagated as _ResponseModelConversionError rather than returning raw
full_response.
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Fixes #6735
What's going wrong
When you pass a
response_modeland turn on streaming, I found that if the model's output doesn't match your schema,_handle_streaming_responsejust quietly hands you back the raw text instead of telling you conversion failed. That's because the conversion call (to_pydantic()) sits inside the sametryblock that's meant to rescue partial output if the stream itself breaks mid-way. So a totally different kind of failure - "stream finished fine but the output is the wrong shape" - gets treated the same as "the connection dropped," and you silently get a string back when you asked for a structured object.I checked the non-streaming paths and they already raise properly in this situation, so this is only a streaming problem. I also noticed async streaming doesn't even attempt
response_modelconversion right now - that looks like a separate bug (#6733), so I left it alone here.What I changed
I pulled the conversion call out into its own
try, and if it fails I re-raise it as a new_ResponseModelConversionError. Then, just like the code already does forLLMContextLengthExceededError, I added a line to let that error pass straight through instead of getting swallowed by the generic handler below it. So now: real stream breakage still salvages whatever partial text it got, but a schema mismatch actually raises like you'd expect.How I tested it
test_streaming_response_model_conversion_failure_raises) that fakes a completed stream where the conversion step fails, and checks that it raises instead of returning text. It passes.test_llm.pyfile: 73 passed, 3 skipped, 2 failures - but I checked and those 2 fail the same way on unmodifiedmaintoo, so they're pre-existing (looks like a Windows asyncio cleanup quirk, nothing to do with my change).ruff checkandruff format --checkboth pass clean on the files I touched.mypyon llm.py shows 22 errors, but same count and same lines as onmainbefore my change (missing litellm type stubs) - none of them are in code I wrote.Scope
Just the one function,
_handle_streaming_response. Didn't touch the non-streaming paths since they were already fine, and didn't touch async streaming since that's a different bug.