fix(openai-chat): tolerate null tool delta padding

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Summary

• treat null tool-call id, function.name, and function.arguments fields as omitted continuation padding
• keep rejecting every non-null, non-string nested tool-call value
• preserve the final fail-closed check for calls that never receive a valid function name

Why

Some OpenAI-compatible SGLang streams send valid id and name fields in the first tool-call delta, then repeat those fields as null while streaming arguments. The current parser rejects those continuation chunks before it can use the valid fields already accumulated.

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Fixes #1731

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved streamed tool-call handling when optional function names, arguments, or call IDs are returned as null or omitted.
  • Preserves previously received tool-call details when continuation data is incomplete.
  • Ignores accepted empty continuation fields without generating misleading diagnostics.
  • Maintains clear validation errors for malformed tool-call values, including accurate identification of the affected entry.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The streamed OpenAI tool-call parser now treats null and undefined IDs, function names, and arguments as absent continuation fields. Diagnostics use the same rule. Tests verify value preservation and fail-closed handling for missing names and malformed entries.

Changes

Streamed tool-call null handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Accept null continuation fields src/adapters/openai-chat.ts	A shared predicate treats null and undefined as absent for streamed IDs, function names, and arguments. Other non-string values still produce invalid-tool-calls errors. Accumulation preserves previously received values.
Validate null-field behavior tests/openai-chat-parallel-stream.test.ts, tests/openai-chat-hardening.test.ts	Tests verify that null continuation fields do not overwrite prior values, unnamed calls still fail closed, and later malformed entries report tool_call_not_object at index 1.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• lidge-jun/opencodex#1468: Updates streamed OpenAI tool-call validation and hardening tests for null fields.
• lidge-jun/opencodex#1531: Introduces related streamed tool-call handling for missing fields.
• lidge-jun/opencodex#1530: Updates streamed tool_calls validation for the same field set.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: allowing null padding in OpenAI tool-call deltas.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The parser and regression tests implement the null-padding, field-preservation, type-rejection, and final-name-validation requirements from issue #1731.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to the OpenAI chat stream parser and tests directly related to issue #1731.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/adapters/openai-chat.ts`:
- Around line 1491-1500: Update diagnoseInvalidToolCalls stream-mode validation
for function.name, function.arguments, and id to ignore null or undefined values
using != null, matching parseStream’s accepted null padding. Keep response-mode
checks strict and unchanged so non-string values other than null/undefined
remain invalid.

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