[Bugfix] Gracefully handle unsupported reasoning_effort in chat templates - #54022
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I feel this is a bit too model-specific. I prefer instead handling the chat template error properly and turning it into a better user-facing error.
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I feel this is a bit too model-specific. I prefer instead handling the chat template error properly and turning it into a better user-facing error.
Thank you for your feedback. I have now modified the returned result to a 400 status code with a verification error message, as suggested.
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We should try to extract the reason for the error if possible, instead of just copying the whole error message
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We should try to extract the reason for the error if possible, instead of just copying the whole error message
OK，Good point. Two things:
- With transformers v5 (vLLM requires >= 5.10.4),
raise_exception(...)inside
a template propagates as an unwrappedjinja2.TemplateError(nothing in
apply_chat_templatewraps it), so the 400 message was already the
template's own reason — e.g. "Unexpected reasoning effort high. Supported
types are xhigh (default), medium, and low." - Still, to be robust against upstream wrapping, the PR now adds
_template_error_reason(), which walks the exception chain and prefers the
jinja2.TemplateErrormessage (exactly what the template passed to
raise_exception), falling back to the outer message otherwise. The tests
now also assert that the 400 message equals the template's reason verbatim.
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Chat templates validate their input and reject invalid requests (for example, the Qwen3.8 template only accepts xhigh/medium/low for reasoning_effort) by raising from inside the template. Surface these errors as a 400 Bad Request carrying the template's own message, which typically lists the supported values, instead of failing the request with a 500. Signed-off-by: frankie <wangyongsheng686@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Trae Agent <noreply@trae.ai>
`_template_error_reason()`, which walks the exception chain and prefers the `jinja2.TemplateError` message Signed-off-by: frankie <wangyongsheng686@gmail.com>
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777-780: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winMap template errors in the assistant-mask path.
When
return_assistant_tokens_mask=Trueand the template contains{% generation %}, the tokenizer’sapply_chat_templatecall can raisejinja2.TemplateError. The current handler catches onlyTypeErrorandValueError, so the error bypasses the laterVLLMValidationErrorconversion and may produce a 500 response.Catch
jinja2.TemplateErrorbefore the compatibility fallback. Add a regression test with a generation-tag template and unsupportedreasoning_effort.Proposed fix
+ except jinja2.TemplateError as exc: + raise VLLMValidationError(_template_error_reason(exc)) from exc except (TypeError, ValueError) as exc: logger.warning( "apply_chat_template failed for assistant_tokens_mask: %s", exc🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@vllm/renderers/hf.py`:
- Line 680: Update the exception traversal around current.__cause__ and
current.__context__ to inspect both links rather than selecting only the cause,
while preserving the existing cycle guard; ensure a nested jinja2.TemplateError
in __context__ is found even when __cause__ contains a non-template exception,
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In `@vllm/renderers/hf.py`:
- Around line 777-780: Update the exception handling around the
assistant_tokens_mask apply_chat_template call to catch jinja2.TemplateError
along with TypeError and ValueError, ensuring it reaches the existing
VLLMValidationError conversion instead of escaping as a server error. Add a
regression test covering a {% generation %} template with unsupported
reasoning_effort.
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To fix #54017
Chat templates validate their input and reject invalid requests by raising
from inside the template. For example, the Qwen3.8 chat template only accepts
xhigh(default),medium, andlowforreasoning_effort; sending thestandard
reasoning_effort: "high"makes the template callraise_exception(...), which surfaces as a server-side error (500) insteadof a usable response.
This PR makes the generic HF renderer surface these template rejections as a
400 Bad Request carrying the template's own message, which typically lists
the supported values (e.g. for Qwen3.8: "Unexpected reasoning effort high.
Supported types are xhigh (default), medium, and low").
The handling is fully generic (no model-specific logic): any exception raised
by the template — an unsupported
reasoning_effort, invalidchat_template_kwargs, etc. — is re-raised asVLLMValidationError, whichthe entrypoint error-handling layer already maps to 400. This covers all
entry points that go through the generic HF renderer
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/v1/chat/completions,/v1/responses, Anthropic/v1/messages, offlinechat, batch).
Changes
vllm/renderers/hf.py: insafe_apply_chat_template, re-raise templateexceptions as
VLLMValidationError(warning-level log) instead of wrappingthem in a raw
ValueError.tests/renderers/test_hf.py: unsupported effort → 400 with the template'smessage; supported effort passes through unchanged; unrelated template
errors also surface as 400.