fix(anthropic): Include api_error type in stream error events

[grahamking]

Previously switchyard-server emitted Anthropic SSE error events without the required nested error.type.

Fixes: https://linear.app/nvidia/issue/SWITCH-1548

Assisted-by: Pi:GPT 6 Astra medium
Reviewed-by: Claude:Opus 5.5 medium
Signed-off-by: Graham King grahamk@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected Anthropic streaming error events to use the standard api_error type while preserving the original failure message.
  • Ensured Anthropic stream and decoding errors terminate cleanly, prevent subsequent stop events, and avoid generating an incorrect completion event.
  • Kept OpenAI Responses error events using their existing error type.

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Walkthrough

Anthropic error events now include the api_error type in translation and server SSE paths. Tests verify the error message, stream termination, and absence of later stop or finish events. OpenAI Responses errors retain SwitchyardError.

Changes

Anthropic error event typing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Translation error event contract crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/anthropic/stream.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs	Anthropic stream and decode errors emit one api_error event with the failure message. Tests verify that later message-stop output is suppressed and finish_stream remains empty.
Server SSE error mapping crates/switchyard-server/src/sse.rs	The server emits api_error for Anthropic Messages errors and retains SwitchyardError for OpenAI Responses errors. The SSE test verifies the Anthropic payload and message.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cae4e

The Anthropic error-type behavior is implemented and tested, but required documentation of the provider mapping and terminal-error test intent remains before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 71.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding the Anthropic api_error type to stream error events.
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Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs (1)

206-207: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a test-intent comment.

This test protects the terminal Anthropic error-event contract. Add a concise comment that states it verifies api_error emission and suppression of later stream output.

As per coding guidelines, Rust changes require concise comments for tests that encode important behavior.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs` around lines 206 -
207, Add a concise intent comment above the
`anthropic_errors_include_type_and_terminate_stream` test stating that it
verifies `api_error` emission and suppresses subsequent stream output.

Source: Coding guidelines

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-server/src/sse.rs`:
- Around line 102-106: Add concise comments in
crates/switchyard-server/src/sse.rs at lines 102-106 and 190-191: document that
Anthropic maps errors to "api_error" while OpenAI Responses uses
"SwitchyardError", and state in the related test that Anthropic SSE error frames
require error.type to equal "api_error".

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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs`:
- Around line 206-207: Add a concise intent comment above the
`anthropic_errors_include_type_and_terminate_stream` test stating that it
verifies `api_error` emission and suppresses subsequent stream output.

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• crates/switchyard-server/src/sse.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/anthropic/stream.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/tests/stream_translation.rs

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