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[Responses] Return 400 for unsupported forced tool_choice on Harmony - #8

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[Responses] Return 400 for unsupported forced tool_choice on Harmony#8
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A forced named-function tool_choice (e.g. {"type":"function","name":"get_weather"}) on gpt-oss / Harmony Responses requests currently raises NotImplementedError, which create_error_response maps to HTTP 501. This is a client-driven input case, not a server fault, so it should be a 4xx.

Impact on the OCI data-plane (OCASGS-25555):

  • Stateless (dp-api -> engine): dp-api retries the 501 four times, then maps it to HTTP 500 (~35s), tripping the OpenAi.Responses.Create 5xx alarm.
  • Stateful (dp-api -> SMG -> engine): SMG passes the 501 straight through.

Both surface as 5xx to customers. This change raises VLLMValidationError instead, which create_error_response maps to 400 BadRequestError — so the stateless path no longer retries (fast 400, no alarm) and the stateful path returns a clean 400.

Scope is limited to the already-guarded forced-named case; auto / none / required (with function tools) are unchanged. VLLMValidationError is already imported and used in this file.

Note: this returns a proper client error for the unsupported case. Actually implementing forced-named tool_choice (constrained decoding) landed upstream in v0.27.0 (vllm-project#45560) and would return 200; that is a separate, larger change.

Test Plan

  • Rebuild image; forced named-function tool_choice on openai.gpt-oss-120b / -20b returns 400 (was 500 stateless / 501 stateful).
  • tool_choice: "required" (with function tools) still returns 200.
  • tool_choice: "auto" / "none" unchanged.
  • Named function not in tools still returns 400.

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A forced named-function tool_choice on gpt-oss/Harmony currently raises
NotImplementedError, which maps to HTTP 501. On the OCI data-plane the
stateless path retries that 501 four times and surfaces it as a 500,
tripping the Responses 5xx alarm; the stateful (SMG) path passes the 501
through. This is client-driven input, not a server fault, so return a
400 by raising VLLMValidationError instead (mapped to BadRequestError by
create_error_response). Behavior for auto/none/required is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Juno13340 <35788036+Juno13340@users.noreply.github.com>
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Juno13340 force-pushed the fix/gptoss-toolchoice-400 branch from 9eeb104 to 676359b Compare August 27, 2026 18:21
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Superseded — landing this through our internal build source instead. Closing here.

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