feat(providers): honour response_format on Anthropic, Gemini and Bedrock upstreams - #1188
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A `/v1/chat/completions` caller that asked for JSON — or a
`/v1/responses` caller whose `text.format` the chat bridge turns into
`response_format` — got prose back from an Anthropic-protocol model:
`build_request` consumed the field and dropped it, since it has no
top-level Anthropic counterpart and forwarding it 400s upstream.
It now becomes one of two request shapes, picked by the target model's
family. `supports_native_structured_output` reads the family version off
the upstream model name (the gateway holds no capability map), covering
both of Anthropic's name orderings and treating the trailing eight-digit
release date as a date rather than a minor, so `claude-sonnet-4-20250514`
stays on the tool path while `claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929` does not.
Claude 4.5 and later take the native path: the schema lands in
`output_config.format`, merged beside whatever else is already in that
carrier (an `effort` translated from `reasoning_effort`, say), and a
`format` the caller sent natively wins. No `anthropic-beta` header — the
current API takes `output_config.format` without one.
Everything else — older Claude families, and non-Claude models reached
through Anthropic-compatible endpoints such as Z.AI or DeepSeek — takes
the tool path: a synthetic `json_tool_call` tool carrying the schema is
appended to the caller's own tools under a forced `tool_choice`. Two
things outrank the forcing: a `tool_choice` the caller set themselves,
and extended thinking, which Anthropic rejects beside a forced choice;
both leave the tool on offer under `auto`. The reply is translated back:
when the synthetic call is the only one, its input becomes the message
content with no `tool_calls` and `finish_reason: stop`, and when the
model called real tools too, those and their finish reason survive with
the JSON appended to the content. Streaming cannot stream a tool call
that only exists once complete, so the tool path runs the upstream leg
non-streaming and fake-streams the result as role / content / finish /
usage chunks — an ordinary stream to every downstream encoder, with usage
recorded as on any other request.
The schema is closed over its properties on both paths regardless of the
caller's `strict` flag: Anthropic rejects an open object outright, and a
tool `input_schema` that leaves one open invites invented members.
`{"type":"json_object"}` carries no schema, and Anthropic's JSON controls
are schema-driven on both paths, so it emits no request field at all — it
is still consumed, as forwarding it would 400. `response_format` never
reaches the Anthropic body either way.
A `/v1/chat/completions` caller that asked for JSON got prose back from
a Gemini or a Bedrock model. The Gemini bridge builds its body from
named struct fields only, so `response_format` never reached the wire
and never had an effect; the Bedrock Converse builder dropped it the
same way. On Bedrock's Anthropic `/invoke` route it fared worse: the
Messages serializer had just learned to turn the field into a synthetic
tool call, but the Bedrock and Vertex bridges never translated that call
back, so the caller was handed a tool call they never offered.
Gemini takes `generationConfig.responseMimeType: "application/json"`
plus the schema, in whichever of the two fields the model's generation
reads it out of: `responseJsonSchema` (ordinary JSON Schema) from Gemini
2 onwards, `responseSchema` (the older OpenAPI-flavoured dialect —
upper-case type names, no `additionalProperties`, an explicit
`propertyOrdering`) before that. A name with no readable generation
falls back to the older field, the one every generation accepts.
`{"type":"json_object"}` asks for JSON with no schema to constrain it;
`{"type":"text"}` emits nothing. There is no tool fallback here — this
bridge sends Gemini no tools at all — and no prompt injection.
Bedrock picks by whether the model constrains its own decoding, which
on AWS is the same Claude families as on Anthropic's own API. The
Bedrock id wraps that name in a publisher tag, an optional cross-region
prefix and (for profiles) an ARN path, so the gate reads the Claude name
out of the id before asking. Native lands in the field the route
actually has: `output_config.format` on the Anthropic Messages
`/invoke` body, `outputConfig.textFormat` on Converse, where the schema
goes as a JSON string. Everything else takes the tool route — a
synthetic `json_tool_call` tool carrying the schema, forced where
Converse honours a `toolChoice` for that family (Anthropic and Amazon
Nova) and merely offered where it does not. A `tool_choice` the caller
set and extended thinking both outrank the forcing, as on Anthropic.
Streaming runs the tool route non-streaming and fake-streams the result,
since a tool call cannot be streamed before it is complete.
The synthetic tool's reverse translation, the fake stream and the two
schema normalisations now live beside the `ChatResponse`/`ChatChunk`
they operate on, so Anthropic, Bedrock and Claude-on-Vertex share one
copy instead of one bridge owning the others' behaviour. Claude on
Vertex gains the reverse translation and the fake stream it was missing
for the same reason Bedrock did.
Schemas are sealed, not closed: every object gets
`additionalProperties: false`, which Anthropic and Bedrock both require,
but `required` is left as the caller wrote it. Both document `required`
as an ordinary JSON Schema keyword with optional properties supported —
promoting every property the way OpenAI strict mode does would silently
make a caller's optional field mandatory on these providers and nowhere
else. The strict closing stays where strict mode is actually declared:
the Anthropic-to-OpenAI reverse mapping, whose `response_format` says
`strict: true`. Gemini's `required` is untouched on both dialects.
Four cases against a real `aisix` binary and mock upstreams, one per request shape the two bridges can now produce: `responseJsonSchema` on a Gemini 2 model, the OpenAPI-flavoured `responseSchema` on a Gemini 1.x one, `output_config.format` on a Bedrock Claude 4.5 over the Anthropic Messages `/invoke` wire, and the synthetic tool plus a forced `toolChoice` on a Bedrock Nova over Converse — where the model's call to that tool comes back to the client as JSON content with no tool call it never offered. Each asserts the caller's `required` survives and that the OpenAI spelling never reaches the upstream body. All four fail against the binary built from the previous commit.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe PR adds shared structured-output support for schema normalization, provider translation, synthetic JSON tools, response unwrapping, and fake streaming. It also adds separate non-streaming deadline handling and provider end-to-end tests. Structured output foundation
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participant Client
participant Proxy
participant ProviderBridge
participant Provider
Client->>Proxy: send structured-output request
Proxy->>ProviderBridge: pass request and deadlines
ProviderBridge->>Provider: send native schema or synthetic JSON tool
Provider-->>ProviderBridge: return structured response
ProviderBridge-->>Proxy: return JSON content or fake stream
Proxy-->>Client: return translated response
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…lized The list is only useful if it names the properties in the order the request itself presents them, so assert it against the `properties` object in the emitted body rather than against a hard-coded order.
From the local review round on this branch. Each is a case where the
translation either changed a request the caller did not ask to change,
or turned a request that used to succeed into one the provider rejects.
A prose preamble no longer survives into the JSON answer. When the
synthetic tool call is the whole reply, its input now *replaces* the
message content instead of being appended to it: a model that narrates
before calling the tool ("Sure, here you go:") was handing the caller a
string that does not parse, which is the one thing structured output
exists to prevent. Prose is likeliest exactly where the tool could not
be forced. The mixed case — real tool calls alongside it — still
appends, because there the caller asked for tool calls and is parsing
the response themselves.
Fake-streamed tool calls now carry a dense `index`. The non-streaming
`tool_calls` shape this is built from has none, while the streaming one
must: OpenAI SDKs accumulate by it, and this repo's Anthropic SSE
re-encoder keys each `content_block` on it, so two real tool calls
alongside the synthetic one folded into a single malformed call.
`tool_choice: "auto"` no longer counts as a stated preference. It is
OpenAI's default and many clients send it on every request, so reading
it as a deliberate choice silently disabled `response_format` for them.
`"required"`, `"none"` and a named function still outrank the forcing.
On Bedrock, `"none"` beside a schema now offers only the synthetic tool:
the previous shape put the caller's own tools back on the table under no
`toolChoice`, which is exactly what "none" told the model not to use.
The synthetic tool is no longer attached to Bedrock publishers whose
Converse has no tool use at all. Titan Text, DeepSeek and the
unclassified publishers reject a `toolConfig` outright, so a request
that carried no tools of its own started failing purely because the
caller asked for JSON. Those models now drop the field and answer as
they did before. A caller's own `tools` are still forwarded unchanged.
Object schemas spelled `{"type": ["object","null"]}` — how strict mode
spells an optional nested object — or carrying `properties` with no
`type` are now recognised and sealed. They were left open, along with
everything below them, and the providers that require sealing reject
that outright.
Gemini's older OpenAPI dialect now reaches `$defs`/`definitions` and
upper-cases union type arrays. `$defs` is reached by `$ref` rather than
by nesting, so the walk never visited it and every nested-model schema —
which is what Pydantic and zod emit — kept `additionalProperties` and
lower-case type names that Vertex rejects.
Two findings from the same round were checked against Anthropic's
current structured-outputs documentation and need no change: the native
field is `output_config.format` (top-level `output_format` is the
superseded beta spelling, and beta headers are no longer required), and
the supported-model list starts at the 4.5 families, so the existing
gate and its `claude-opus-4-1` case are correct.
…o budget/ownership bugs
Three follow-ups from the review round, each changing where a decision
is made rather than adding a feature.
Schemas are narrowed to what the target provider's constrained decoder
accepts, in one shared helper every edge calls. Anthropic and Bedrock
compile the schema into a decoding grammar and return a 400 for any
keyword outside their documented subset, so forwarding a schema that a
typed-model generator produced — `Field(ge=1, max_length=20)`, and the
zod equivalent — would have turned a request that used to return prose
into one that fails outright. Those keywords are now removed and folded
into that property's `description`, so the constraint still reaches the
model as a sentence even though the decoder no longer enforces it:
Anthropic and Bedrock-Claude minimum, maximum, exclusiveMinimum,
exclusiveMaximum, multipleOf, minLength,
maxLength, maxItems, uniqueItems, and
minItems other than 0 or 1
Gemini responseSchema exclusiveMinimum, exclusiveMaximum,
multipleOf, uniqueItems (its numeric and
string bounds ARE part of the dialect);
allOf, not, if/then/else, const,
contains, patternProperties,
prefixItems, unevaluatedProperties
dropped outright, having nothing a
sentence can carry
`oneOf` is rewritten to `anyOf` on both rather than dropped: neither
provider documents `oneOf`, and for constraining output the difference
does not bind, while dropping it would take the alternatives with it.
Gemini's dialect has no `$ref` at all, so internal references are
inlined and the definition blocks removed. What narrowing cannot fix —
a recursive or external `$ref` — is left exactly as it came in, so the
upstream's own rejection stands rather than a silently broken schema.
Strict mode's all-required promotion moves to the OpenAI edge. It used
to happen in the inbound `/v1/messages` translation, which was correct
while OpenAI was the only consumer — but that translation now also
feeds the Anthropic, Bedrock and Gemini edges, where `required` is an
ordinary keyword and the caller's optional property must stay optional.
The translation carries the schema verbatim under `strict: true`, and
the OpenAI request builder closes it when that flag is set, so the body
OpenAI receives is unchanged (asserted field-for-field).
The tool route's non-streaming leg runs under the request budget. On a
streaming dispatch `ctx.deadline` is the streaming budget, which bounds
the connect phase and the gap between chunks — but the structured-output
tool route answers such a request with one non-streaming upstream call,
which was therefore being measured against a per-chunk allowance. The
proxy now carries the end-to-end budget alongside it and the three
diversion sites use it; real streaming is untouched.
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- Around line 272-274: Update narrow_schema_node so it recurses only through
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definition entries—rather than every object value. Preserve property names as
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… Azure edge Review round on the previous commit. Four defects and one ruling. The narrowing walker treated caller property names as keywords. It descended with a blind walk over every member, so on reaching a `properties` map it read the keys — which are the caller's field names — as schema keywords: a document with a field called `minimum` or `const` lost that field and gained a `description` assembled from its own field names. It now descends only into the positions that hold a schema, matching the sealing walker beside it. Both walkers also handle the draft-07 tuple form of `items`, an array of schemas rather than one schema, whose elements neither of them was reaching. `$ref` inlining is bounded by a total-expansion budget, not only by chain depth. Depth was shared between siblings, so a recursive definition with several alternatives multiplied at every level: seven alternatives turned roughly 250 bytes of schema into hundreds of megabytes, synchronously, while a caller waited. Inlining now runs on a copy under a global budget and the result is adopted only if it finished inside it; on overrun nothing is rewritten and the `$ref`s go upstream as the caller wrote them, the same outcome as any other reference this cannot resolve. Azure OpenAI gets the strict-mode schema closing. It keeps its own copy of the outbound-body pipeline, mirroring the OpenAI one, and moving the closing to the OpenAI edge in the previous commit left Azure without it — so an Anthropic-shaped `/v1/messages` request onto an Azure deployment began failing on a schema whose `required` did not list every property. The closing is now one public function both edges call, with the same field-for-field assertion on each. A client `tool_choice` of any value, `"auto"` included, is the caller's preference and the gateway does not override it. The previous commit read `auto` as an absence of intent so that structured output would still be forced; but `auto` is the client saying the model decides, and a client running an agent loop sends it beside its own tools every turn. Forcing there would mean those tools could never be called for as long as `response_format` is set. The synthetic tool is still offered, so the model can reach the JSON on its own; the gateway forces only when no choice was stated at all. The budget fix gains the coverage it was missing: the same unit test on the Anthropic and Vertex diversion sites, and a DP e2e that pins the proxy threading end to end — a model with a 400ms streaming budget and a 30s request budget, a 1.2s upstream, and a streaming structured-output request that now completes instead of being cut off.
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…ni's real member set Re-review of the previous commit. Both walkers in `structured_output` carried their own idea of where a sub-schema lives, and both lists were short — so the applicator keywords were skipped by each of them at once. A `maximum` under an `if`/`then` branch stayed on the wire, and the object a `Dict[str, Model]` field compiles to — `additionalProperties` in its schema form — was never sealed. There is now one `for_each_subschema` both walkers run off, covering `properties`, `patternProperties`, `dependentSchemas`, `$defs`/`definitions`, `anyOf`/ `oneOf`/`allOf`, `prefixItems`, `items` in both its forms, `not`, `if`/`then`/`else`, `contains`, `propertyNames`, `additionalProperties`, `unevaluatedProperties` and `unevaluatedItems`. A table-driven test asserts sealing and narrowing each reach every one of them, so the two cannot drift apart again. `$ref` inlining is bounded by bytes as well as by count. The count bounds how many times a definition is copied, not how large the copies are: twenty references to a definition carrying a few hundred kilobytes of `description` stay far inside any sane count while producing megabytes of duplicated text, which is then serialised again on the way upstream. Both halves now have to hold, and either overrun takes the same branch as before — nothing is rewritten and the `$ref`s go up as the caller wrote them. Gemini's `responseSchema` dropped-keyword list is now taken from Google's own discovery document — `GET https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1beta`, whose `schemas.Schema.properties` is exactly `anyOf`, `default`, `description`, `enum`, `example`, `format`, `items`, `maxItems`, `maxLength`, `maxProperties`, `maximum`, `minItems`, `minLength`, `minProperties`, `minimum`, `nullable`, `pattern`, `properties`, `propertyOrdering`, `required`, `title` and `type`. Everything else is rejected by name, so `additionalProperties`, `propertyNames`, `dependentSchemas`, `dependentRequired`, `unevaluatedItems`, `readOnly`, `writeOnly`, `deprecated`, `contentEncoding`, `contentMediaType`, `$schema`, `$id`, `$comment` and `$anchor` join the list, and the dialect rewriter stops keeping its own duplicate removals. The Gemini 2+ `responseJsonSchema` path is untouched — it takes ordinary JSON Schema. An explicit `"tool_choice": null` counts as unstated. It is the wire spelling of "unset" that SDKs emit for an absent optional, and nothing downstream makes a choice out of it either, so reading it as a stated preference left a request that asked for JSON, forced nothing and stated nothing — and the model answered in prose. Gemini's dialect rewriter also reaches the elements of a tuple-form `items`. `Schema.items` is a single schema there, so a tuple is a shape this dialect cannot express at all and Vertex rejects it — the same standing as an unresolvable `$ref` — but the walkers now agree about where schemas live rather than one of them stopping early.
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/v1/chat/completionscaller that asked for JSON got prose back from an Anthropic, Gemini or Bedrock upstream. All three bridges build their own request shape rather than forwarding an OpenAI body, andresponse_formathas no top-level counterpart on any of the three wires, so each dropped it. The same held for a/v1/responsescaller, whosetext.formatthe chat bridge turns intoresponse_formatbefore dispatch.Each provider now gets the shape its own API defines, picked by what the target model can do. Follow-up to #1185.
Anthropic
Claude 4.5 and later take the native control: the schema lands in
output_config.format, merged beside whatever else is already in that carrier (anefforttranslated fromreasoning_effort, say), and aformatthe caller sent natively wins. Noanthropic-betaheader — the current API takes the field without one.The model gate reads the family version off the upstream model name, since the gateway holds no capability map. It covers both of Anthropic's name orderings (
claude-3-5-haiku-…andclaude-sonnet-4-5-…) and treats the trailing eight-digit release date as a date rather than a minor, soclaude-sonnet-4-20250514stays at 4.0 whileclaude-sonnet-4-5-20250929is 4.5.@splits alongside-for theclaude-sonnet-4-5@20250929spelling Vertex uses.Everything else — older Claude families, and non-Claude models reached through Anthropic-compatible endpoints such as Z.AI or DeepSeek — takes the shared tool route described below.
{"type":"json_object"}carries no schema, and Anthropic's JSON controls are schema-driven on both routes, so it emits no request field at all. It is still consumed, as forwarding it would 400.{"type":"text"}likewise emits nothing.response_formatnever reaches the Anthropic body either way.Gemini (the Vertex bridge's chat→Gemini path)
A schema becomes
generationConfig.responseMimeType: "application/json"plus the schema itself, in whichever of Gemini's two fields the model's generation reads it out of:generationConfig.responseJsonSchema, ordinary JSON Schema, forwarded as the caller wrote it.generationConfig.responseSchema, the older OpenAPI-flavoured dialect: upper-case type names (OBJECT,STRING), noadditionalProperties(Gemini rejects it), and an explicitpropertyOrderingso the model's member order is fixed rather than unspecified. The ordering emitted is the order the properties appear in the schema as the gateway serialises it, so the request is self-consistent.The gate reads the generation off the model name (
gemini-2.5-flash→ 2,gemini-3-pro-preview→ 3), tolerating themodels/<id>spelling. A name with no readable generation —gemini-exp-1206, say — falls back toresponseSchema, the field every generation accepts.{"type":"json_object"}sets the mime type only;{"type":"text"}emits nothing at all. There is no tool fallback and no prompt injection on this path: the bridge sends Gemini notools, so there is nothing to force, and a model that cannot constrain its decoding is left to answer as it would have.requiredis the caller's own statement on both dialects and is never rewritten.The bridge previously dropped the field silently — its body carries only the fields named on its request struct, so nothing leaked upstream; the request simply had no effect.
Bedrock
The choice is whether the model constrains its own decoding, which on AWS is the same Claude families as on Anthropic's own API. A Bedrock id wraps that name in a publisher tag, an optional cross-region prefix and (for profiles) an ARN path, so the gate extracts the Claude name out of
anthropic.claude-…,us.anthropic.claude-…andarn:…:inference-profile/us.anthropic.claude-…before asking the same question.Native lands in the field the route actually has, both documented by AWS:
/invoke(the Anthropic Messages wire, which is where a non-streaming Claude request goes on this bridge) —output_config.format, the schema as an object.outputConfig.textFormat = {"type":"json_schema","structure":{"jsonSchema":{"schema":"<the schema, as a JSON STRING>","name":…,"description":…}}}. Converse typesschemaas a string, not an object.nameis the caller's own schema name where they sent one, since it is what a schema-compilation error quotes back.Everything else takes the tool route, where the publisher's Converse supports tool use at all — Anthropic, Amazon Nova, Meta, Mistral and Cohere. Titan Text, DeepSeek and the unclassified publishers reject a
toolConfigoutright, so attaching one because the caller asked for JSON would fail a request that carries no tools of its own; those models drop the field and answer as they did before. A caller's owntoolsare still forwarded to them unchanged.On Converse the synthetic tool is a
toolSpecwhoseinputSchema.jsoncarries the schema, forced viatoolChoice: {"tool": {"name": "json_tool_call"}}only where Converse honours atoolChoicefor that family — Anthropic Claude and Amazon Nova per AWS; elsewhere the tool is offered and the model is trusted to take the only tool on the table. The caller's own tools are kept alongside it.json_objectwithout a schema emits nothing on either route.The shared tool route
Where a provider has no native control, the schema rides a synthetic
json_tool_calltool whose input is the answer, appended to the caller's own tools under a forced choice. Three things outrank the forcing, each leaving the tool on offer under the model's ownauto: atool_choicethe caller stated — any explicit value,autoincluded, because a caller running an agent loop beside a schema must keep its own tools callable; only an explicit JSONnullcounts as unstated — extended thinking (Anthropic rejects a forced choice beside it), and a Converse publisher with notoolChoice. Atool_choice: "none"beside a schema offers only the synthetic tool: putting the caller's own tools back on the table unforced is exactly what "none" told the model not to do.The reply is translated back. When the synthetic call is the only one, its input replaces the message content, with no
tool_callsandfinish_reason: stop: a client that never offered a tool must not be told the model stopped to call one, and a model that narrated before calling the tool would otherwise leave the caller with a string that does not parse. When the model called real tools too, the caller did ask for tool calls and is parsing the response themselves, so those calls and their finish reason survive and the JSON is appended to whatever text came with them. Fake-streamed tool calls are given a denseindex, which the non-streaming shape they are built from does not carry and which OpenAI SDKs and the Anthropic SSE re-encoder both accumulate by.Streaming cannot stream a tool call that only exists once complete, so the tool route runs the upstream leg non-streaming and fake-streams the result as role / content / finish / usage chunks: an ordinary stream to every downstream encoder, with usage recorded as on any other request. The cost is first-byte latency — the client waits for the whole completion instead of the first token. That is inherent to getting schema-constrained JSON out of a model that has no native control, and it applies only to requests that ask for a schema on such a model.
This route, its reverse translation, the fake stream and the schema normalisations now live beside the
ChatResponse/ChatChunkthey operate on (aisix-gateway::structured_output) rather than inside one provider crate, so Anthropic, Bedrock and Claude-on-Vertex share one copy. Claude on Vertex and Claude on Bedrock gained the reverse translation and the fake stream they were missing — without them a caller on those two paths was handed a rawjson_tool_calltool call.Schema closing
Narrowing
Every provider here compiles the schema into a decoding grammar and returns a 400 for any keyword outside its documented subset. Forwarding a schema untouched would therefore turn a request that used to return prose into one that fails outright — and the schemas most likely to trip it are the ordinary ones, since
Field(ge=1, max_length=20)and its zod equivalent emit exactly these keywords. One shared helper narrows the schema at every edge, moving each removed constraint into that property'sdescriptionso it still reaches the model as a sentence, even though the decoder no longer enforces it ("full name (maxLength: 20)").descriptionminimum,maximum,exclusiveMinimum,exclusiveMaximum,multipleOf,minLength,maxLength,maxItems,uniqueItems, andminItemsother than0/1responseSchema(1.x dialect)exclusiveMinimum,exclusiveMaximum,multipleOf,uniqueItemsallOf,not,if/then/else,const,contains,patternProperties,prefixItems,unevaluatedPropertiesGemini's numeric and string bounds (
minimum,maxLength,pattern, …) are part of the OpenAPI dialect, so unlike Anthropic they survive.Two keywords are handled rather than removed.
oneOfbecomesanyOfon both: neither provider documentsoneOf, and for constraining output the exactly-one/at-least-one difference does not bind — a document the model produced matches whichever branch it followed — while dropping it would take the alternatives with it. Gemini's dialect has no$refat all, so internal references are inlined and the$defs/definitionsblocks removed; Anthropic and Bedrock both document internal$refand keep theirs.What narrowing cannot fix is left alone: a recursive
$ref(expansion stops at a depth cap) or an external one stays exactly as it came in, so the provider's own rejection stands instead of a silently mangled schema.Sealing
Schemas are sealed, not closed: every object gets
additionalProperties: false, andrequiredis left exactly as the caller wrote it. An object node is recognised whether itstypeis"object", the union["object","null"](how strict mode spells an optional nested object), or absent beside apropertiesmap — missing any of those leaves that node and everything under it open, which the providers that require sealing reject.Anthropic's structured-outputs documentation lists
requiredamong the supported JSON Schema keywords and describes optional properties explicitly — they are permitted, and merely sort after the required ones in the output; onlyadditionalPropertiesis constrained, and only tofalse. Bedrock documents the same subset. So promoting every declared property intorequired, the way OpenAI strict mode does, would silently make a caller's optional field mandatory on these providers and nowhere else.The strict closing is kept where strict mode is actually declared — and now happens at the edge that declares it. An Anthropic-shaped
/v1/messagesrequest reaching a non-Anthropic upstream is translated into aresponse_formatcarrying the caller's schema verbatim understrict: true; the OpenAI request builder applies the all-required closing when it sees that flag. Doing it during the translation, as before, rewrote the schema for every downstream — including the Anthropic and Bedrock edges, where it silently made a caller's optional property mandatory. The body OpenAI receives is unchanged, asserted field-for-field ina_translated_messages_request_reaches_openai_byte_for_byte_as_before. Gemini'srequiredis untouched on both dialects.Streaming budget on the tool route
On a streaming dispatch the bridge's deadline is the streaming budget, which bounds the connect phase and the gap between chunks rather than a whole completion. The tool route answers such a request with one non-streaming upstream call, so it was being measured against a per-chunk allowance: with
stream_timeout_msconfigured belowtimeout_ms, a structured-output request that streams would fail where the same request withoutresponse_formatsucceeds.BridgeContextnow carries the end-to-end budget alongside the streaming one, the proxy sets it on every streaming dispatch, and the three diversion sites run their non-streaming leg under it. Real streaming is untouched.Tests
aisix-gateway— the seal/close pair (sealing_closes_every_object_and_leaves_required_alone,strict_closing_promotes_every_property_to_required,sealing_reaches_arrays_branches_and_definitions,sealing_recognises_union_typed_and_untyped_object_nodes,only_a_json_schema_response_format_yields_a_schema) and the narrowing (every keyword in the table above, the description folding with and without an existing description,minItems0/1 surviving,oneOfrelaxing toanyOf,$refinlined for Gemini and kept for Anthropic, and a recursive or external$refleft for the upstream to reject).an_optional_property_stays_optional_on_both_paths.gemini_generation_gate_reads_the_major_off_the_model_name, the two schema fields, the OpenAPI dialect's reach into arrays, branches,$defsand union type arrays,propertyOrderingagreeing with the schema as serialised,json_object/text, and that the OpenAI spelling never reaches the wire.native_gate_reads_the_claude_name_out_of_the_bedrock_model_id(bare, region-prefixed, ARN, non-Claude, opaque-profile), the/invokenative and tool shapes, the ConverseoutputConfigwith the schema as a string, the synthetic tool forced on Nova and left onautoon Meta, caller tools and callertool_choicewinning, thinking suppressing the forcing,json_objectemitting nothing on either route, and both reverse translations plus the fake stream.response_formatreaching OpenAI untouched.a_small_stream_budget_does_not_cut_the_fake_stream_leg: a chunk-gap budget the completion would blow through, beside an end-to-end budget it fits inside.tests/e2e, real binary + mock upstreams) —anthropic-structured-output-e2e(native, tool route, streaming, and/v1/responsestext.format) andprovider-structured-output-e2e(Gemini 2, Gemini 1.x, Bedrock Claude 4.5, Bedrock Nova with the tool-call reply returning as JSON content).Every new case was run against the binary built from the previous commit and fails there; each unit assertion was additionally checked by mutating the specific branch it pins.
Two things checked and left alone
Anthropic's current structured-outputs documentation settles both:
output_config.format. Top-leveloutput_formatis the superseded beta spelling, still accepted for a transition period, and beta headers are no longer required — so noanthropic-betaheader is sent.claude-sonnet-4-5,claude-opus-4-5,claude-haiku-4-5,claude-sonnet-4-6, the 4.6/4.7/4.8 Opus releases and the 5.x families).claude-opus-4-1is not on it, so the>= 4.5gate and itsclaude-opus-4-1test case are correct.Live verification
The tool route was exercised against a real Anthropic-compatible upstream (Z.AI) during the Anthropic half of this work: the synthetic tool was called, and the reply came back as JSON content matching the schema.
Gemini and Bedrock are mock-only. Neither
GEMINI_API_KEY/GOOGLE_API_KEYnorAWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID/AWS_PROFILEis present in the environment, and the shared credential store hasvertex.service_account_json,gemini.api_keyand bothaws_bedrock.*entries empty, so no live call to either provider was possible.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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