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[None][fix] Gemma 4 tool parser: stream arguments that join to the parsed call - #21493
Symptom. With --tool_parser gemma4 and stream: true on /v1/chat/completions, a Gemma 4 tool call streamed in small steps is delivered with arguments that are not JSON; streamed token by token, every call is, even one without arguments (}{}). The deltas carry the model's raw argument text as it is generated (location:<|"|>NYC<|"|>}), and when the call closes the parsed arguments ({"location": "NYC"}) are appended to the same call, so a client that joins function.arguments by index, as the OpenAI SDK does, ends up with location:<|"|>NYC<|"|>}{"location": "NYC"} and cannot run the tool. The Anthropic Messages stream, which is built from these chunks, carries the same input_json_delta fragments. Separately, when the last streaming step carries a whole call after some text, or the end of one call and all of the next (possible when a step carries several tokens), that call is never sent: the stream reports fewer calls than the non-streaming response, and with text before the call none at all, ending with finish_reasonstop instead of tool_calls.
Cause.Gemma4ToolParser.parse_streaming_increment sends the raw text between a call's braces as argument deltas while the call is open, and then the parsed arguments as JSON when <tool_call|> arrives. The raw text is the Gemma 4 format (bare keys, <|"|> string delimiters), so the two together are neither that text nor JSON. In addition, one increment handles the text before a call or one step of a call and leaves the rest buffered for the next increment, and the parser did not override finish(), so whatever was still buffered when the stream ended was dropped.
Change.
While a call is open, only its name is sent (as before, once call:<name>{ has arrived). The argument text is held, and when the call closes the arguments go out in one piece, as the JSON detect_and_parse makes of the same text. The arguments a client joins are then exactly the non-streaming arguments, however the output is split into steps. The DeepSeek V3.2 / V4 (DSML), Kimi K3 and GLM parsers likewise send a call's arguments only once the call is complete.
finish() reports the complete calls still in the buffer when the stream ends, under the next indices. Like detect_and_parse, it does not report a call that never closed and does not return the text it passes over (that text follows a call).
Behaviour. A Gemma 4 call's arguments now arrive as one fragment when the call closes instead of as raw text while it is generated, so a client that shows arguments progressively sees them at the end of each call. Otherwise every step carries what it carried before: the same content, and the same tool names, indices and ids, sent in the same steps. The final chunk now also carries the calls that were dropped at the end of a stream, with finish_reasontool_calls. Only the chat streaming path, and the Anthropic Messages stream built from it, use the parser's streamed calls; the non-streaming responses and the Responses API take the calls from a whole-text parse and are not affected. streaming_matches_whole_parse stays False: a call cut off by the end of the stream has had its name sent, while the whole-text parse does not report it.
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New tests in tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py (already in l0_cpu.yml), class TestGemma4StreamingMatchesWholeParse:
test_every_chunking[one call, two calls, text before, text after, text around two calls, nested values, strings with escapes, no arguments]: for every chunking from the file's _chunkings helper (the whole output, one character per step, 2/3/5/8/13/40 characters per step, and every two-way split), the items from parse_streaming_increment plus finish, joined by index, give the calls detect_and_parse finds: indices counting up from 0, the name on a call's first item only, the same names, and joined arguments that parse as JSON and equal the parsed arguments. The streamed text still starts with detect_and_parse's text.
test_arguments_go_out_once_the_call_closes: in token-sized steps the name goes out first with empty arguments, nothing while the arguments arrive, then {"location": "NYC"} in one item when <tool_call|> arrives.
test_finish_reports_the_calls_the_last_increment_left: text, two whole calls and more text in the last step: the step returns the text, and finish() reports both calls (indices 0 and 1, parsed arguments) and no text.
test_finish_reports_no_call_cut_off_by_the_end: a stream that ends inside a call: finish() reports nothing.
Results: on main, 10 of the 11 new tests fail (joined arguments that are not JSON; calls lost when the last step holds them; raw text streamed in token-sized steps; finish() reporting nothing). test_finish_reports_no_call_cut_off_by_the_end passes on main by design, since there finish() does nothing. All 11 pass with this change. Sending the raw argument text again makes 9 of them fail, and a finish() that reports nothing makes 4 fail. Over tests/unittest/llmapi/apps and tests/unittest/llmapi/test_reasoning_parser.py, the only outcome changes from main are those 10 tests going from failed to passed.
Also checked locally and not added, as the repository has no Hypothesis dependency: a Hypothesis property over 2,000 generated Gemma 4 outputs (well-formed calls with every value kind, text around them, malformed and unterminated markup), split at generated points with the special tokens kept whole and also split anywhere, found no difference from detect_and_parse and no change from main in the text or the named items of any step; it flags each of nine bugs planted in this change. Through chat_stream_post_processor, the OpenAI SDK's ChatCompletionStreamState and the Anthropic Messages reframer both assemble the parsed calls for one call, two calls, text before a call, nested values and escaped strings, streamed token by token, in 3-character steps and in one step.
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Gemma4ToolParser now holds argument text until a call closes, then emits the parsed JSON arguments as one fragment. finish() reports complete calls left in the buffer and does not report calls that remain open. No current review findings or independently verified test results were supplied.
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tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py adds TestGemma4StreamingMatchesWholeParse. It checks varied chunkings, whole-parse parity, argument emission timing, complete calls left at stream end, and unterminated calls. The test file is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the described parser behavior.
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tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/gemma4_parser.py: Verify that arguments are emitted only after the end token and that finish() reports complete buffered calls without reporting open calls.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py: Covers streamed-versus-whole parsing, chunk boundaries, argument emission, and end-of-stream behavior. The file is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
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While a Gemma 4 call was open, the streaming parser sent the raw text between
its braces as argument deltas, and when the call closed it sent the parsed
arguments as JSON as well, so the arguments a client joins by index were
neither JSON nor the parsed arguments. Hold the argument text until the call
closes and send the parsed JSON once; the call's name still goes out as soon
as it is known.
An increment handles the text before a call or one step of a call and keeps
the rest for the next one, so calls that arrived in the last increment
together with text or with the end of another call were dropped when the
stream ended. finish() now reports the complete calls still buffered; as in
detect_and_parse, it reports no call that never closed and no text after a
call.
Tests: for one call, two calls, text before, after and around calls, nested
values, escaped strings and an empty argument list, the streamed calls joined
by index equal detect_and_parse's under every chunking (whole, per character,
fixed sizes, every two-way split); plus the emission order in token-sized
increments, and what finish() reports.
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Gemma4ToolParser holds arguments until a tool call closes, then emits parsed JSON arguments. Its new finish() method emits complete calls left in the buffer at stream end. Tests compare streamed parsing with one-shot parsing across multiple chunkings.
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Buffer and finalize tool calls tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/gemma4_parser.py
The parser holds argument text until the call end token and then emits parsed JSON. finish() processes complete calls remaining in the buffer.
Tests compare streamed and one-shot results across chunkings. They check argument emission timing, finalization of complete calls, and handling of unclosed calls.
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM issue 21004: It reports a similar buffered-call problem. This change applies delayed argument emission and stream-end flushing to Gemma 4; the issue notes that DeepSeek remains a separate parser.
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With no text after a call, the streamed text must now equal the text before the
first call; with text after a call, it must be that text followed by the text
after each of the first k calls. Previously any text that started with
detect_and_parse's text passed, so leaked call markup went unnoticed. Also cover
a call cut off after its name went out: the name goes out alone and finish()
adds nothing.
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Arriving one character at a time, every character after a call is read by its
own increment, so all of the text around the calls must go out. Arriving whole,
finish drops the text after the calls, as detect_and_parse does. Other
chunkings keep the prefix check, because each increment does only one step and
how much text gets out depends on how the calls are spread over the increments.
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The reconstruction helper groups items by index and hides their global order. The current emission-order test covers only one call. Extend the token-sized case to two sequential calls and assert the raw per-increment sequence:
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Extend test_arguments_go_out_once_the_call_closes with a second sequential
search_web call and assert each token-sized increment’s raw calls sequence,
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assertions and verify the second call’s name and completed JSON appear only at
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Extend the token-sized Gemma 4 emission test to two sequential calls and
assert the raw per-increment steps, whose order the index-grouped checks
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@coderabbitai Thanks, done in ce950c9. test_arguments_go_out_once_the_call_closes now streams a second call (search_web with query AI) in token-sized increments and asserts the raw per-increment steps, taken from the parser. The second call is named only after the first call's arguments have gone out, and its own arguments go out with its end token. A parser that holds back a later call's name until the call closes now fails this test, while the index-grouped chunking test still passes on it.
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@JunyiXu-nv Thanks for the update. The raw per-increment assertions you describe cover the emission-order gap that index-grouped assertions miss. They check that the second call’s name is emitted before that call closes, while its arguments wait for the end token.
Closing in favour of #21975, which fixes the same loss once, in BaseToolParser.finish(), for every parser that keeps the default finish(), this one included. The other part of this PR, the argument deltas of a call that spans increments, is not in #21975: it was not seen in recorded traffic.
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Symptom. With
--tool_parser gemma4andstream: trueon/v1/chat/completions, a Gemma 4 tool call streamed in small steps is delivered with arguments that are not JSON; streamed token by token, every call is, even one without arguments (}{}). The deltas carry the model's raw argument text as it is generated (location:<|"|>NYC<|"|>}), and when the call closes the parsed arguments ({"location": "NYC"}) are appended to the same call, so a client that joinsfunction.argumentsby index, as the OpenAI SDK does, ends up withlocation:<|"|>NYC<|"|>}{"location": "NYC"}and cannot run the tool. The Anthropic Messages stream, which is built from these chunks, carries the sameinput_json_deltafragments. Separately, when the last streaming step carries a whole call after some text, or the end of one call and all of the next (possible when a step carries several tokens), that call is never sent: the stream reports fewer calls than the non-streaming response, and with text before the call none at all, ending withfinish_reasonstopinstead oftool_calls.Cause.
Gemma4ToolParser.parse_streaming_incrementsends the raw text between a call's braces as argument deltas while the call is open, and then the parsed arguments as JSON when<tool_call|>arrives. The raw text is the Gemma 4 format (bare keys,<|"|>string delimiters), so the two together are neither that text nor JSON. In addition, one increment handles the text before a call or one step of a call and leaves the rest buffered for the next increment, and the parser did not overridefinish(), so whatever was still buffered when the stream ended was dropped.Change.
call:<name>{has arrived). The argument text is held, and when the call closes the arguments go out in one piece, as the JSONdetect_and_parsemakes of the same text. The arguments a client joins are then exactly the non-streaming arguments, however the output is split into steps. The DeepSeek V3.2 / V4 (DSML), Kimi K3 and GLM parsers likewise send a call's arguments only once the call is complete.finish()reports the complete calls still in the buffer when the stream ends, under the next indices. Likedetect_and_parse, it does not report a call that never closed and does not return the text it passes over (that text follows a call).Behaviour. A Gemma 4 call's arguments now arrive as one fragment when the call closes instead of as raw text while it is generated, so a client that shows arguments progressively sees them at the end of each call. Otherwise every step carries what it carried before: the same content, and the same tool names, indices and ids, sent in the same steps. The final chunk now also carries the calls that were dropped at the end of a stream, with
finish_reasontool_calls. Only the chat streaming path, and the Anthropic Messages stream built from it, use the parser's streamed calls; the non-streaming responses and the Responses API take the calls from a whole-text parse and are not affected.streaming_matches_whole_parsestaysFalse: a call cut off by the end of the stream has had its name sent, while the whole-text parse does not report it.Test Coverage
New tests in
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py(already inl0_cpu.yml), classTestGemma4StreamingMatchesWholeParse:test_every_chunking[one call, two calls, text before, text after, text around two calls, nested values, strings with escapes, no arguments]: for every chunking from the file's_chunkingshelper (the whole output, one character per step, 2/3/5/8/13/40 characters per step, and every two-way split), the items fromparse_streaming_incrementplusfinish, joined by index, give the callsdetect_and_parsefinds: indices counting up from 0, the name on a call's first item only, the same names, and joined arguments that parse as JSON and equal the parsed arguments. The streamed text still starts withdetect_and_parse's text.test_arguments_go_out_once_the_call_closes: in token-sized steps the name goes out first with empty arguments, nothing while the arguments arrive, then{"location": "NYC"}in one item when<tool_call|>arrives.test_finish_reports_the_calls_the_last_increment_left: text, two whole calls and more text in the last step: the step returns the text, andfinish()reports both calls (indices 0 and 1, parsed arguments) and no text.test_finish_reports_no_call_cut_off_by_the_end: a stream that ends inside a call:finish()reports nothing.Results: on
main, 10 of the 11 new tests fail (joined arguments that are not JSON; calls lost when the last step holds them; raw text streamed in token-sized steps;finish()reporting nothing).test_finish_reports_no_call_cut_off_by_the_endpasses onmainby design, since therefinish()does nothing. All 11 pass with this change. Sending the raw argument text again makes 9 of them fail, and afinish()that reports nothing makes 4 fail. Overtests/unittest/llmapi/appsandtests/unittest/llmapi/test_reasoning_parser.py, the only outcome changes frommainare those 10 tests going from failed to passed.Also checked locally and not added, as the repository has no Hypothesis dependency: a Hypothesis property over 2,000 generated Gemma 4 outputs (well-formed calls with every value kind, text around them, malformed and unterminated markup), split at generated points with the special tokens kept whole and also split anywhere, found no difference from
detect_and_parseand no change frommainin the text or the named items of any step; it flags each of nine bugs planted in this change. Throughchat_stream_post_processor, the OpenAI SDK'sChatCompletionStreamStateand the Anthropic Messages reframer both assemble the parsed calls for one call, two calls, text before a call, nested values and escaped strings, streamed token by token, in 3-character steps and in one step.PR Checklist
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Gemma4ToolParsernow holds argument text until a call closes, then emits the parsed JSON arguments as one fragment.finish()reports complete calls left in the buffer and does not report calls that remain open. No current review findings or independently verified test results were supplied.QA Engineer Review
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.pyaddsTestGemma4StreamingMatchesWholeParse. It checks varied chunkings, whole-parse parity, argument emission timing, complete calls left at stream end, and unterminated calls. The test file is listed intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the described parser behavior.Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/gemma4_parser.py: Verify that arguments are emitted only after the end token and thatfinish()reports complete buffered calls without reporting open calls.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_tool_parsers.py: Covers streamed-versus-whole parsing, chunk boundaries, argument emission, and end-of-stream behavior. The file is listed intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.