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Summary

  • keep literal whitespace outside streamed message references
  • retain single, double, and spaced outer-brace reference forms
  • apply the same boundary rule to iteration aliases
  • add regression coverage for adjacent and consecutive references

Fixes #18665

Tests

  • python -m pytest -c NUL --confcutdir=test/testcases/test_web_api/test_canvas_app test/testcases/test_web_api/test_canvas_app/test_variable_ref_pattern_unit.py -q (12 passed)
  • ruff check agent/component/base.py test/testcases/test_web_api/test_canvas_app/test_variable_ref_pattern_unit.py

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ComponentBase now builds balanced template-reference patterns and filters incomplete wrapped matches. Shared replacement logic is used by formatting, rendering, streaming, canvas values, documentation generation, and retrieval filters. Tests cover whitespace preservation, nested references, unmatched templates, and non-mutating filter resolution.

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Template reference matching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pattern construction
agent/component/base.py
A shared builder creates variable-reference and iteration-alias patterns with balanced optional outer braces and an outer capture group.
Reference extraction and replacement
agent/component/base.py, agent/canvas.py, agent/component/docs_generator.py, agent/component/invoke.py, agent/component/message.py
Extraction rejects incomplete wrapped matches. Shared replacement preserves unmatched templates, converts None values to empty strings, and keeps adjacent literal whitespace. Consumer paths use the shared matching logic.
Retrieval integration and regression validation
agent/tools/retrieval.py, test/testcases/test_web_api/test_canvas_app/test_variable_ref_pattern_unit.py
Manual metadata filters use a reusable resolver without mutating the source filter. Retrieval passes the configured prefetch_size. Tests cover balanced and incomplete references, nested references, formatting, iteration aliases, logging, and filter resolution.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to abbab

The PR changes message-reference and retrieval handling, but malformed references and non-string filters can still produce incorrect substitutions or runtime errors, while invalid prefetch values may reach retrieval and the configured formatter check currently fails. The change is not merge-ready until these bounded correctness and readiness issues are addressed.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Message
  participant ComponentBase
  participant Canvas
  Message->>ComponentBase: iterate accepted template matches
  ComponentBase->>Canvas: resolve matched variable
  Canvas-->>ComponentBase: return converted value
  ComponentBase-->>Message: return text with literal whitespace preserved
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A rabbit guards each curly brace,
And keeps the spaces in their place.
Known values hop through every stream,
Unknown templates stay unseen.
Nested paths pass every test.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning Retrieval manual-filter and prefetch-size changes, plus related tests, are unrelated to the whitespace-preservation objective in issue #18665. Remove the unrelated Retrieval changes and tests, or provide linked issue requirements that justify them.
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary whitespace-preservation fix for message references.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required Summary section, explains the fix, references the issue, and lists validation results.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #18665 by preserving surrounding whitespace and supporting the required reference and iteration-alias forms with regression tests.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring check was indeterminate for this PR — some files could not be analyzed in time. Not blocking.

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In `@agent/component/base.py`:
- Around line 363-365: Update variable_ref_patt so its optional outer braces are
matched as a balanced pair before allowing surrounding spaces; preserve the
unwrapped reference form while rejecting inputs with only an opening or closing
outer brace. Add near-miss tests covering both unpaired-brace cases and ensure
full-match replacement leaves their literal text intact.
- Around line 363-365: The replacement path associated with variable_ref_patt
and variable_ref_patt_re must replace each regex complete match, including
double-braced and spaced-braced references, rather than only the inner capture
group. Add regression coverage in
test/testcases/test_web_api/test_canvas_app/test_variable_ref_pattern_unit.py:313-320
that exercises get_input_elements_from_text() and string_format() and asserts
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around lines 313 - 320: Add assertions covering the complete production
formatting path.
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LGTM. Please resolve the CI failures before merging.

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In `@agent/component/base.py`:
- Around line 632-635: Update _iter_template_matches to emit a debug-level log
whenever _is_complete_template_match rejects a candidate match, while keeping
incomplete template values out of the log and preserving the existing yield
behavior for complete matches.
- Around line 632-635: Update _resolve_manual_filter in agent/tools/retrieval.py
to iterate with self._iter_template_matches(pat, s) instead of pat.finditer(s),
preserving malformed literal input such as "{ {A@x}" without substitution. Add a
regression test covering this manual metadata-filter case.
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43-48: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the compatibility wording.

Line 46 refers to “existing callers.” Describe the capture contract directly instead.

As per coding guidelines, “Do not add new compatibility wording in comments or docs.”

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and describe the capture contract directly: Group 1 contains the reference, and
the named outer group indicates whether the wrapped form matched.

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91-111: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Guard non-string manual filter values before template matching. re.Pattern.finditer raises TypeError for integer, list, dictionary, and None values. Return non-string values unchanged or normalize them without changing their filter semantics.

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In `@agent/tools/retrieval.py` around lines 91 - 111, Update
_resolve_manual_filter to guard flt["value"] before passing it to
_replace_template_matches, since non-string values cause regex matching to raise
TypeError. Preserve non-string values unchanged in the copied resolved filter,
while continuing template substitution for string values and retaining the
existing handling of resolved variable types.

61-61: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate prefetch_size in RetrievalParam.check().

The UI restricts it to an integer from 64 to 256, but DSL loading calls check() without validating prefetch_size. Reject values outside this contract before retrieval.

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In `@agent/tools/retrieval.py` at line 61, Update RetrievalParam.check() to
validate prefetch_size before retrieval, requiring an integer in the inclusive
range 64 through 256. Reject values outside this contract while preserving the
existing validation behavior for other retrieval parameters.
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197-197: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Log the selected prefetch size.

prefetch_size changes retrieval behavior, but this path does not record the selected value. Add a debug log before the retrieval call so operators can correlate retrieval results with configuration.

As per coding guidelines: **/*.py: Add logging for new flows.

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using the module’s existing logger and preserving the current retrieval
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- Around line 91-111: Update _resolve_manual_filter to guard flt["value"] before
passing it to _replace_template_matches, since non-string values cause regex
matching to raise TypeError. Preserve non-string values unchanged in the copied
resolved filter, while continuing template substitution for string values and
retaining the existing handling of resolved variable types.
- Line 61: Update RetrievalParam.check() to validate prefetch_size before
retrieval, requiring an integer in the inclusive range 64 through 256. Reject
values outside this contract while preserving the existing validation behavior
for other retrieval parameters.

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JinHai-CN merged commit a113116 into infiniflow:main Aug 24, 2026
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The whitespace-swallowing defect in variable_ref_patt / iteration_alias_patt
(issue infiniflow#18665) was fixed on main by _build_template_ref_pattern (PR infiniflow#18666,
a113116), but the fix landed without regression tests, leaving the issue's
Expected behavior unpinned. These tests encode the issue's repro cases: a
plain {X@y} reference keeps its adjacent spaces, {A@x} {B@y} keeps the
separating space, outer-brace forms ({ {X@y} } / {{X@y}} / { {X@y}}) still
match whole, and the streaming slice-around-match render produces
"Decision: VALUE — done" instead of "Decision:VALUE— done".

Refs infiniflow#18665
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[Bug]: Message node drops the whitespace around every {Component@output} reference (variable_ref_patt swallows adjacent spaces)

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