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fix(router): forward exact numbers on the external-provider paths - #2658

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Problem

From the review of #2637: request_to_value fixed the f32 widening for the HTTP and PD paths, but crates/external_router/src/openai/chat.rs:86 (to_value(&body)) and crates/external_router/src/gemini/steps/request_building.rs:40 still widen, so a BYOK upstream (OpenAI, z.ai) receives "top_p":0.949999988079071 for a client's 0.95.

Solution

openai_protocol::common::to_value_exact: serialize with the writer (which prints each f32 in its shortest round-trip form) and parse that back. The OpenAI chat path, the OpenAI responses path (openai/responses/route.rs, which also widened; its wire-contract tests now serialize the way the handler does) and the Gemini path use it; the gateway's request_to_value keeps its pre-sized buffer and documents that it is the same operation. The doc states what this is and is not: it restores the parsed f32's shortest decimal, not the client's original token (precision the parse discarded, 0.950000001 → 0.95, is gone), and numbers kept as Value (other, nested values) were normalized at parse time (1e2 → 100.0, -0 → -0.0).

Test Plan

  • common::tests::to_value_exact_keeps_f32_fields_as_the_client_wrote_them: a ChatCompletionRequest with top_p: 0.95 and temperature: 0.7; asserts serde_json::to_value does widen and to_value_exact does not.
  • router_serialization_keeps_f32_fields_as_the_client_wrote_them on the responses path (top_p: 0.95, temperature: 0.7).
  • cargo test -p smg-external-router --features openai,anthropic,gemini: 285 passed (the routers are feature-gated; without the features the crate's default build compiles none of them). cargo +nightly fmt --all -- --check clean; cargo clippy -p smg-external-router --all-targets --features openai,anthropic,gemini -- -D warnings clean, plus openai-protocol and smg.
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  • cargo +nightly fmt passes
  • cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings passes (without --all-features, see above)
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  • Bug Fixes
    • Chat, Gemini, and Responses requests now preserve the decimal values clients provide for numeric settings such as temperature and top-p, avoiding changes to their representation during serialization.
    • Serialization failures continue to return the existing error responses.

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A public helper serializes typed values through JSON bytes into a Value. The Gemini and OpenAI chat and responses routers use the helper for request payloads. Tests check that top_p and temperature retain their client-written values.

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Request serialization

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Exact-value serialization helper
crates/protocols/src/common.rs
Adds to_value_exact, which round-trips serialized JSON bytes into a Value. A test checks top_p, temperature, and model.
Router serialization adoption and validation
crates/external_router/src/gemini/steps/request_building.rs, crates/external_router/src/openai/chat.rs, crates/external_router/src/openai/responses/route.rs, model_gateway/src/routers/common/mod.rs
The Gemini and OpenAI chat and responses routers use to_value_exact to serialize requests. Existing serialization-error handling remains unchanged. Responses tests check preserved temperature and top_p values. The documentation describes the helper, buffer sizing, and preservation of client-written f32 values.

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Confirm that the documentation describes precision retained after parsing, rather than promising to preserve every number as originally written, before merging.

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let mut payload = match to_value(&body) {
let mut payload = match to_value_exact(&body) {

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🟣 Pre-existing: The external responses path still widens: crates/external_router/src/openai/responses/route.rs:131 serializes with plain to_value(&request_body), and ResponsesRequest has typed f32 fields (temperature at crates/protocols/src/responses.rs:3050, top_p at :3069), so a BYOK responses upstream still receives "top_p":0.949999988079071 for a client's 0.95. Since this PR's stated scope is exact numbers on the external-provider paths, it's worth switching that site to to_value_exact here too (its tests at route.rs:258 also pin the to_value shape, so they'd move with it).

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Good catch, fixed in 4570c8e: openai/responses/route.rs now serializes with to_value_exact too, its wire-contract tests serialize the way the handler does, and a new case pins top_p: 0.95 / temperature: 0.7 on that path. Gated with --features openai,anthropic,gemini (285 passed); my earlier local runs had the routers' features off, which is how this site was missed.

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Reviewed the exact-number forwarding fix: to_value_exact is correct (writer prints f32 in shortest round-trip form, parse restores it), both external call sites carry typed f32 fields, and the gateway's request_to_value doc update is accurate. One 🟣 pre-existing note: the external responses path (responses/route.rs:131) still widens and is in this PR's stated scope. No blocking issues.

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In `@crates/protocols/src/common.rs`:
- Around line 14-20: Update the documentation around the typed-request
serialization helpers to describe parsed-`f32` precision, not source-token
preservation. Clarify that typed `f32` values are emitted using the shortest
JSON decimal that round-trips to the parsed value and cannot retain precision
discarded during deserialization; align the nearby forwarding-path and payload
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Comment thread crates/protocols/src/common.rs Outdated
#2637 stopped f32 fields widening on the HTTP and PD paths, but the
external-provider paths still built their upstream payload with
serde_json::to_value, so a BYOK upstream received top_p as
0.949999988079071. to_value_exact, shared from the protocols crate,
serializes with the writer and parses that back, restoring the parsed
f32's shortest round-trip form (not the client's token: precision the
parse discarded is gone). The OpenAI chat and responses paths and the
Gemini path use it; the gateway's pre-sized helper says it is the same
thing.

Signed-off-by: Alex McC <319643551+hello-alexmcc@users.noreply.github.com>
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