Fix SSE event classification to follow spec for missing event field (#913)

Per the SSE specification (WHATWG HTML Living Standard 9.2.6), an event with no explicit event field MUST be dispatched as a message event. HttpClientStreamableHttpTransport previously used strict equality and silently dropped such frames in the reconnect/GET stream path, causing server-initiated notifications to never reach the handler. Extract classification into a package-private isMessageEvent helper and cover with parameterized unit tests.

Closes gh-885

mcp-core/src/test/java/io/modelcontextprotocol/client/transport/HttpClientStreamableHttpTransportSseEventTypeTest.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2024-2026 the original author or authors.
+ */
+
+package io.modelcontextprotocol.client.transport;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.NullAndEmptySource;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.ValueSource;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+/**
+ * Unit tests for {@link HttpClientStreamableHttpTransport#isMessageEvent(String)}.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * Verifies that SSE event classification follows the <a href=
+ * "https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/server-sent-events.html#event-stream-interpretation">
+ * WHATWG HTML Living Standard §9.2.6</a>: an event without an explicit {@code event:}
+ * field must be dispatched as a {@code message} event.
+ *
+ * @author jiajingda
+ * @see <a href="https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/java-sdk/issues/885">#885</a>
+ */
+class HttpClientStreamableHttpTransportSseEventTypeTest {
+
+	@ParameterizedTest
+	@NullAndEmptySource
+	void shouldTreatNullOrEmptyEventAsMessage(String eventName) {
+		assertThat(HttpClientStreamableHttpTransport.isMessageEvent(eventName))
+			.as("SSE frame with null/empty event field must be treated as a 'message' event per SSE spec")
+			.isTrue();
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	void shouldTreatExplicitMessageEventAsMessage() {
+		assertThat(HttpClientStreamableHttpTransport.isMessageEvent("message"))
+			.as("Explicit 'message' event must be parsed as a JSON-RPC message")
+			.isTrue();
+	}
+
+	@ParameterizedTest
+	@ValueSource(strings = { "ping", "error", "notification", "MESSAGE", "Message", "custom-event" })
+	void shouldNotTreatOtherEventsAsMessage(String eventName) {
+		assertThat(HttpClientStreamableHttpTransport.isMessageEvent(eventName))
+			.as("Non-'message' SSE event '%s' must not be parsed as a JSON-RPC message", eventName)
+			.isFalse();
+	}
+
+}