Every wire-serialized record in McpSchema now validates spec-required
fields at construction time. Wire deserialization is intentionally
lenient: a missing required field is replaced with a documented default
and a WARN is logged, instead of failing the parse. A required-first
builder convention is introduced across the schema so it is no longer
possible to obtain a builder that is missing required state.
Required-field guards
---------------------
Every wire record's compact constructor asserts non-null (and non-empty
for String identifiers like name, uri, uriTemplate, version) on its
spec-required components. Passing null now throws
IllegalArgumentException at construction time instead of silently
producing invalid JSON via @JsonInclude(NON_ABSENT). This applies to
the JSON-RPC envelopes, lifecycle types, resource/prompt/tool requests
and results, sampling and elicitation, content records, root, complete,
logging and progress notifications, and the two CompleteReference
implementations. See MIGRATION-2.0.md for the full list.
Lenient wire deserialization
----------------------------
For each of those records (except JSONRPCResponse.JSONRPCError, which
still fails fast) a @JsonCreator static `fromJson` factory substitutes
a documented default for any absent required field — "" for strings,
[] for collections, {} for maps, 0 / 0.0 for numerics, INFO for
LoggingLevel, USER for SamplingMessage.role, ASSISTANT for
CreateMessageResult.role, CANCEL for ElicitResult.action, {values=[]}
for CompleteResult.completion — and logs a WARN naming the field and
the value used. Application code can still observe a malformed message
and react, but the SDK no longer halts the conversation.
Builder convention
------------------
Records that have a builder gain a required-first factory method
`builder(req1, req2, …)`; setters for required fields are removed from
the builder so it cannot be left in an invalid state. Existing no-arg
`builder()` factories and required-field setters are kept where source
compatibility demands it but are marked @Deprecated. New builders are
also added for several records that previously had none (ProgressNotification,
JSONRPCError, CompleteRequest, list/result types, content records, ...).
JSON-RPC envelope ergonomics
----------------------------
Previously every JSON-RPC envelope had to be constructed via the
canonical record constructor and the literal "2.0" string had to be
threaded through every call site, e.g.
new JSONRPCRequest("2.0", "tools/call", id, params)
new JSONRPCResponse("2.0", id, result, null)
new JSONRPCResponse("2.0", id, null, new JSONRPCError(code, message, null))
Now:
new JSONRPCRequest("tools/call", id, params) // jsonrpc defaulted
new JSONRPCNotification("notifications/initialized") // params optional
JSONRPCResponse.result(id, result) // factory
JSONRPCResponse.error(id, new JSONRPCError(code, message)) // 2-arg error
JSONRPCResponse's compact constructor additionally enforces the
JSON-RPC invariant that exactly one of `result` / `error` is set —
previously the SDK could build envelopes that violated the protocol.
CompleteReference changes
-------------------------
- PromptReference.equals/hashCode now key on `name` only (previously
derived from identifier()+type()). Two refs with the same name but
different titles now compare equal — code using PromptReference as a
map/set key should be audited.
- PromptReference's compact constructor pins `type` to "ref/prompt"
and logs a WARN if the caller supplies a different non-null value.
The legacy two-arg `PromptReference(String type, String name)`
constructor remains @Deprecated.
- ResourceReference's record components are reduced from (type, uri)
to (uri) — positional construction breaks. The legacy
`ResourceReference(String type, String uri)` constructor stays
@Deprecated and ignores `type`.
- CompleteReference.identifier() is @Deprecated and now returns null
via a default method on the interface.
Tests / refactor
----------------
Conformance harness, integration tests, sample apps, and internal
callers were migrated to the new builder factories and convenience
constructors. No semantic changes to client/server runtime behaviour
beyond the McpSchema changes above.
Docs
----
- MIGRATION-2.0.md: required-field section now covers the broader
record set and the lenient-deserialization behaviour; PromptReference
WARN behaviour and ResourceReference component reduction are
documented; the JSON-RPC envelope section is rewritten to compare the
pre-2.0 surface with the new one.
- CONTRIBUTING.md: the "Evolving wire-serialized records" recipe is
split into two cases — adding a new optional field (existing rules)
and adding/maintaining a spec-required field (new rules covering
Assert in compact constructor, @JsonCreator fromJson with defaults
and WARN, required-first builder factory).
Signed-off-by: Dariusz Jędrzejczyk <2554306+chemicL@users.noreply.github.com>
The MCP specification evolves continuously; domain types must absorb
new fields and subtypes without breaking existing clients or servers.
On the 1.x line this is structurally prevented by sealed interfaces,
which make it impossible to add a permitted subtype without breaking
exhaustive pattern-match switch expressions in caller code. This
commit opens the 2.0 release line, where those constraints are lifted
and serialization is made self-contained — independent of any global
ObjectMapper configuration.
Breaking changes for users migrating from 1.x
- Sealed interfaces removed from JSONRPCMessage, Request, Result,
Notification, ResourceContents, CompleteReference and Content.
Exhaustive switch expressions over these types must add a default
branch.
- Prompt(name, description, null) no longer silently coerces null
arguments to an empty list. Use Prompt.withDefaults() to preserve
the previous behaviour.
- CompleteCompletion.total and .hasMore are now absent from the wire
when not set, rather than being emitted as null.
- ServerParameters no longer carries Jackson annotations; it is an
internal configuration class, not a wire type.
What now works that did not before
- CompleteReference polymorphic dispatch (PromptReference vs
ResourceReference) works through a plain readValue or convertValue
call — no hand-rolled map inspection required.
- LoggingLevel deserialization is lenient: unknown level strings
produce null instead of throwing.
- All domain records now tolerate unknown JSON fields, so a client
built against an older SDK version will not fail when a newer server
sends fields it does not yet recognise.
- Null optional fields are consistently absent from serialized output
regardless of ObjectMapper configuration.
Documentation
- CONTRIBUTING adds an "Evolving wire-serialized records" section: a
9-rule recipe and example for adding a field safely.
- MIGRATION-2.0 documents all breaking changes listed above.
Follow-up coming next
Several spec-required fields (e.g. JSONRPCError.code/message,
ProgressNotification.progress, CreateMessageRequest.maxTokens,
CallToolResult.content) are stored as nullable Java types without a
null guard. If constructed with null, the NON_ABSENT rule silently
omits them, producing invalid wire JSON without throwing. Fix: compact
canonical constructors with Assert.notNull, following the pattern
already in JSONRPCRequest.
Signed-off-by: Dariusz Jędrzejczyk <2554306+chemicL@users.noreply.github.com>
