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feat(a2a): support custom ClientFactory in A2AAgent for authenticated requests - #810
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Motivation
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A2AAgentcurrently always creates a defaultClientFactoryinternally, providing no way to customize how HTTP requests are made to the remote A2A server. This prevents users from authenticating requests with mechanisms like SigV4 signing or bearer tokens, which is required when invoking A2A agents on services like Bedrock AgentCore.The Python SDK already supports this by accepting a custom A2A client factory in its
A2AAgentclass.Resolves: #802
Public API Changes
A2AAgentConfignow accepts an optionalclientFactoryparameter:When no
clientFactoryis provided, the defaultClientFactoryis used — fully backward compatible.Use Cases