Session id is normalized on write but not on read: after bfeb04c a padded id creates a session that cannot be read, deleted, or re-created (in_memory and sqlite, incl. the adk web / adk run store)

[tonydzi]

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#6887 was fixed and merged as bfeb04c (via #6892). The fix normalizes session_id on write and leaves read untouched, so on current main a caller who consistently passes an unnormalized id now ends up with a session that cannot be read, cannot be deleted, and cannot be re-created. The same asymmetry already lived in SqliteSessionService, which is the store behind adk web / adk run.

Measured on c3d3730 (main, contains bfeb04c).

Environment: google-adk 2.6.3 from an editable checkout at c3d3730 · Python 3.12.13 · macOS 26.3.1 · no model involved (session store only, LiteLLM N/A) · reproduces always (100%).

Repro

import asyncio, os, tempfile

PADDED = 'order-42\n'   # e.g. an id read from a file, env var, or CSV cell
TRIMMED = 'order-42'

async def run(name, svc):
    from google.adk.errors.already_exists_error import AlreadyExistsError
    app, user = 'app', 'u'
    created = await svc.create_session(app_name=app, user_id=user,
                                       session_id=PADDED, state={'cart': ['book']})
    print(f'--- {name} ---')
    print('  create(PADDED).id =', repr(created.id))
    print('  get(PADDED)       =', 'HIT' if await svc.get_session(
        app_name=app, user_id=user, session_id=PADDED) else 'MISS')
    print('  get(TRIMMED)      =', 'HIT' if await svc.get_session(
        app_name=app, user_id=user, session_id=TRIMMED) else 'MISS')
    try:
        await svc.create_session(app_name=app, user_id=user, session_id=PADDED)
        print('  re-create(PADDED) = ok (overwrote the live session)')
    except AlreadyExistsError:
        print('  re-create(PADDED) = AlreadyExistsError')
    await svc.delete_session(app_name=app, user_id=user, session_id=PADDED)
    print('  delete(PADDED)    =', 'STILL THERE' if await svc.get_session(
        app_name=app, user_id=user, session_id=TRIMMED) else 'gone')

async def main():
    from google.adk.sessions.in_memory_session_service import InMemorySessionService
    from google.adk.sessions.sqlite_session_service import SqliteSessionService
    await run('InMemorySessionService', InMemorySessionService())
    d = tempfile.mkdtemp()
    await run('SqliteSessionService (backs `adk web` / `adk run`)',
              SqliteSessionService(db_path=os.path.join(d, 'session.db')))

asyncio.run(main())

Output on c3d3730 — identical for both services:

  create(PADDED).id = 'order-42'
  get(PADDED)       = MISS
  get(TRIMMED)      = HIT
  re-create(PADDED) = AlreadyExistsError
  delete(PADDED)    = STILL THERE

The caller passed one string throughout and never learns the id was rewritten: create_session returns a Session whose .id differs from what was handed in, and every later call with the original string misses.

Same probe on bfeb04c~1 (5ca0746, before the merged fix) differs in exactly one line — re-create(PADDED) = ok (silently replaced). So bfeb04c traded a silent overwrite for a session with no way out. Both are the write half of one contract.

Root cause

session_id is normalized where it is stored and used raw where it is looked up.

service	normalizes	uses the raw string
in_memory_session_service.py	_create_session_impl (:117)	_get_session_impl (:183), _delete_session_impl (:303, pop(session_id))
sqlite_session_service.py	create_session (:210)	get_session (:275), delete_session (:403)

DatabaseSessionService and RedisSessionService do not normalize at all, so they are symmetric — a different semantics, not a healthier one.

_delete_session_impl is not fixed by fixing _get_session_impl: it calls _get_session_impl and then does pop(session_id) on the raw string, so normalizing only the read path turns a silent no-op into a KeyError. Both need the same line.

Why the suite stayed green

bfeb04c added tests for the write direction only. Reverting the merged strip() at in_memory_session_service.py:117 on main:

4 failed, 391 passed, 2 xfailed
  FAILED test_create_session_with_padded_duplicate_id_raises_error
  FAILED test_create_session_with_blank_id_generates_one
  (+2 failures that are pre-existing on untouched main)

The write direction is pinned by two tests. The read direction is pinned by none — tests/unittests/sessions/ is 2 failed, 393 passed, 2 xfailed on main with the bug live, and the two failures (test_load_dialect_impl_spanner, test_vertex_ai_session_service_raises_not_implemented_for_get_user_state) fail identically on untouched main.

Proposed fix

Four one-line strips, mirroring the two that already exist:

• in_memory_session_service.py — first line of _get_session_impl and of _delete_session_impl
• sqlite_session_service.py — first line of get_session and of delete_session

each session_id = session_id.strip() if session_id else session_id.

With those four lines the repro above reads HIT / HIT / AlreadyExistsError / gone on both services, and tests/unittests/sessions/ is 2 failed, 393 passed, 2 xfailed — byte-identical to the control run on untouched main.

Contract test

tests/unittests/sessions/_conformance.py is the right home: it already holds every backend to a shared contract and makes an exception written and visible.

@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_session_id_accepted_by_create_is_usable_by_get_and_delete(
    session_service,
):
  """Whatever string create_session accepted must address the same session in
  get_session and delete_session."""
  app_name, user_id = 'my_app', 'test_user'
  session_id = 'order-42\n'

  await session_service.create_session(
      app_name=app_name, user_id=user_id, session_id=session_id
  )
  assert (
      await session_service.get_session(
          app_name=app_name, user_id=user_id, session_id=session_id
      )
      is not None
  ), 'get_session cannot address the id create_session accepted'

  await session_service.delete_session(
      app_name=app_name, user_id=user_id, session_id=session_id
  )
  assert (
      await session_service.get_session(
          app_name=app_name, user_id=user_id, session_id=session_id.strip()
      )
      is None
  ), 'delete_session did not remove the session it was pointed at'

On main: 4 failed, 2 passed — red on in_memory, in_memory_light_copy, sqlite, per_agent_database; green on database and redis, which pass only because they never normalize. Note that two of the four red rows are one root: per_agent_database is SqliteSessionService under .adk/session.db, i.e. the store adk web and adk run create (cli/utils/local_storage.py:66).

With the four-line fix: 6 passed.

Scope

Checked and not affected: append_event takes the id from session.id (already normalized by create_session), and list_sessions does not key on a caller-supplied id. VertexAiSessionService was not exercised. The HTTP surface was not measured — this is reported at the BaseSessionService contract level.

Happy to open a PR with the four lines plus the contract test if you would rather have it as a diff than as an issue.