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Adding stand-alone support for RESTful API serving

Though the RESTful API (JSON+HTTP) can be served from an envoy transcoding of the gRPC service that may not always make sense in all cases. Instead, this PR also adds the ability to serve the RESTful API stand-alone, without needing to also setup the gRPC service.

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This pull request introduces the capability to serve the A2A RESTful API as a standalone service, offering an alternative to gRPC-based serving with Envoy transcoding. It achieves this by adding new application and request handler components that directly process REST (JSON+HTTP) requests, map them to the core A2A logic, and manage responses, including Server-Sent Events.

Highlights

  • Standalone REST API Support: Introduces new RESTApplication and A2ARESTFastAPIApplication classes to enable serving the A2A RESTful API independently, without reliance on gRPC or Envoy transcoding.
  • REST Request Handling: Adds a dedicated RESTHandler that maps incoming REST (JSON+HTTP) requests to the appropriate underlying A2A request handler methods, ensuring consistency with existing gRPC service definitions by leveraging protobuf for data serialization/deserialization.
  • FastAPI Integration: Implements A2ARESTFastAPIApplication to build a FastAPI application, providing concrete endpoints for A2A operations such as message sending (including streaming), task retrieval, and push notification management.
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This pull request introduces stand-alone support for serving the RESTful API. Several critical and high-severity issues concerning attribute access, routing logic, error handling, and type safety were identified.

@pstephengoogle pstephengoogle changed the title feat: [WIP] Adding stand-alone support for RESTful API serving feat: Adding stand-alone support for RESTful API serving Jul 15, 2025
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Can you also add tests for these new handlers?


def build(
self,
agent_card_url: str = '/.well-known/agent.json',
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agent_card_url: str = '/.well-known/agent.json',
agent_card_url: str = AGENT_CARD_WELL_KNOWN_PATH,

Also add import:

from a2a.utils.constants import AGENT_CARD_WELL_KNOWN_PATH

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


class RESTApplication:
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Should this be called A2ARESTApplication?

def __init__(
self,
agent_card: AgentCard,
http_handler: RequestHandler,
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nit: this param should be called request_handler, right? As it is the base request handler, there's nothing related to HTTP.

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return JSONResponse(
'{"message": ' + error.message + '}',
status_code=404,
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This would not be 404. Default value would be 500. But we should check for error and attach 4XX or 5XX HTTP error codes.

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Not sure why, but this PR seems to have Krishna's persistence store changes as well.

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Not sure why, but this PR seems to have Krishna's persistence store changes as well.

I think the git history doesn't match up and includes a few of these extra commits.
It's also going to the restful branch instead of main. Not sure if this is intended.

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Merging this PR into restful. As directed by Phil, the improvements as suggested in the comments will be taken up in a subsequent PR.

@swapydapy swapydapy merged commit 6a27179 into restful Jul 24, 2025
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@swapydapy swapydapy deleted the updates branch July 24, 2025 00:10
holtskinner added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 24, 2025
# Adding stand-alone support for RESTful API serving

Though the RESTful API (JSON+HTTP) can be served from an envoy
transcoding of the gRPC service that may not always make sense in all
cases. Instead, this PR also adds the ability to serve the RESTful API
stand-alone, without needing to also setup the gRPC service.

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Co-authored-by: Holt Skinner <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: swapydapy <[email protected]>
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