Fix on_request callback not triggering for API specs

src/litserve/server.py

@@ -1071,6 +1071,8 @@ def _register_spec_endpoints(self, lit_api: LitAPI):
         specs = [lit_api.spec] if lit_api.spec else []
         for spec in specs:
             spec: LitSpec
+            # Set the server reference for callback triggering in spec endpoints
+            spec._server = self
             # TODO check that path is not clashing
             for path, endpoint, methods in spec.endpoints:
                 self.app.add_api_route(

src/litserve/specs/base.py

@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.request_queue = None
         self.response_queue_id = None
 
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        """Exclude _server from pickling as it contains unpickleable objects."""
+        state = self.__dict__.copy()
+        state["_server"] = None
+        return state
+
     @property
     def stream(self):
         return False

src/litserve/specs/openai.py

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 from fastapi.responses import StreamingResponse
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
 
+from litserve.callbacks.base import EventTypes
 from litserve.constants import _DEFAULT_LIT_API_PATH
 from litserve.specs.base import LitSpec, _AsyncSpecWrapper
 from litserve.utils import LitAPIStatus, ResponseBufferItem, azip
@@ -502,6 +503,14 @@ async def chat_completion(self, request: ChatCompletionRequest, background_tasks
         uids = [uuid.uuid4() for _ in range(request.n)]
         self.queues = []
         self.events = []
+
+        # Trigger callback
+        self._server._callback_runner.trigger_event(
+            EventTypes.ON_REQUEST.value,
+            active_requests=self._server.active_requests,
+            litserver=self._server,
+        )
+
         for uid in uids:
             request_el = request.model_copy()
             request_el.n = 1

src/litserve/specs/openai_embedding.py

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 from fastapi import status as status_code
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 
+from litserve.callbacks.base import EventTypes
 from litserve.constants import _DEFAULT_LIT_API_PATH
 from litserve.specs.base import LitSpec
 from litserve.utils import LitAPIStatus, ResponseBufferItem
@@ -261,6 +262,13 @@ async def embeddings_endpoint(self, request: EmbeddingRequest) -> EmbeddingRespo
         event = asyncio.Event()
         self.response_buffer[uid] = ResponseBufferItem(event=event)
 
+        # Trigger callback
+        self._server._callback_runner.trigger_event(
+            EventTypes.ON_REQUEST.value,
+            active_requests=self._server.active_requests,
+            litserver=self._server,
+        )
+
         self.request_queue.put_nowait((response_queue_id, uid, time.monotonic(), request.model_copy()))
         await event.wait()
 

tests/unit/test_callbacks.py

@@ -80,3 +80,45 @@ async def test_request_tracker(capfd):
     await run_simple_request(server, 4)
     captured = capfd.readouterr()
     assert "Active requests: 4" in captured.out, f"Expected pattern not found in output: {captured.out}"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_request_tracker_with_spec(capfd):
+    from litserve.specs.openai_embedding import OpenAIEmbeddingSpec
+    from litserve.test_examples.openai_embedding_spec_example import TestEmbedAPI
+
+    lit_api = TestEmbedAPI(spec=OpenAIEmbeddingSpec())
+    server = ls.LitServer(lit_api, track_requests=True, callbacks=[RequestTracker()])
+
+    with wrap_litserve_start(server) as server:
+        async with (
+            LifespanManager(server.app) as manager,
+            AsyncClient(transport=ASGITransport(app=manager.app), base_url="http://test") as ac,
+        ):
+            resp = await ac.post("/v1/embeddings", json={"input": "test", "model": "test"})
+            assert resp.status_code == 200
+
+    captured = capfd.readouterr()
+    assert "Active requests: 1" in captured.out, f"Expected pattern not found in output: {captured.out}"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_request_tracker_with_openai_spec(capfd):
+    from litserve.specs.openai import OpenAISpec
+    from litserve.test_examples.openai_spec_example import TestAPI
+
+    lit_api = TestAPI(spec=OpenAISpec())
+    server = ls.LitServer(lit_api, track_requests=True, callbacks=[RequestTracker()])
+
+    with wrap_litserve_start(server) as server:
+        async with (
+            LifespanManager(server.app) as manager,
+            AsyncClient(transport=ASGITransport(app=manager.app), base_url="http://test") as ac,
+        ):
+            resp = await ac.post(
+                "/v1/chat/completions", json={"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "test"}], "model": "test"}
+            )
+            assert resp.status_code == 200
+
+    captured = capfd.readouterr()
+    assert "Active requests: 1" in captured.out, f"Expected pattern not found in output: {captured.out}"