fix(sglang): parse tool_call function arguments before applying the chat template (#10558)

OpenAI wire format carries `function.arguments` as a JSON-encoded string,
but chat templates (e.g. Qwen3-Coder) iterate over it as a mapping. The
vllm backend already parses arguments before applying the chat template
(PR #10256); this mirrors that fix in the sglang backend.

Without this fix the second turn of any tool-using session (assistant
returns tool_calls, user posts `role:"tool"` result, model is invoked
with arguments still as a string) crashes inside transformers' Jinja
chat-template rendering with:

  TypeError: Can only get item pairs from a mapping.
  File ".../transformers/utils/chat_template_utils.py", in render_jinja_template
  File ".../jinja2/filters.py", in do_items
      raise TypeError("Can only get item pairs from a mapping.")

Reproduced on `lmsysorg/sglang:v0.5.14` via LocalAI v4.5.4 with
`saricles/Qwen3-Coder-Next-NVFP4-GB10` (W4A4 NVFP4 / compressed-tensors)
on NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10, sm_121).

After the patch, a tool-call roundtrip (assistant tool_calls -> tool
result -> assistant final answer) returns http=200 with the expected
follow-up content; no behaviour change on requests that don't carry
tool_calls.

Signed-off-by: Poseidon <philipp.wacker@ibf-solutions.com>
Co-authored-by: Poseidon <philipp.wacker@ibf-solutions.com>
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2026-06-30 09:00:51 +02:00
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@@ -147,9 +147,25 @@ class BackendServicer(backend_pb2_grpc.BackendServicer):
d["reasoning_content"] = msg.reasoning_content
if msg.tool_calls:
try:
d["tool_calls"] = json.loads(msg.tool_calls)
tool_calls = json.loads(msg.tool_calls)
except json.JSONDecodeError:
pass
else:
# OpenAI wire format carries function.arguments as a
# JSON-encoded string, but chat templates (e.g. Qwen3)
# iterate over it as a mapping. The vllm backend
# already parses arguments before applying the chat
# template (PR #10256); mirror that here so the
# sglang backend works with the same wire format.
if isinstance(tool_calls, list):
for tc in tool_calls:
func = tc.get("function") if isinstance(tc, dict) else None
if isinstance(func, dict) and isinstance(func.get("arguments"), str):
try:
func["arguments"] = json.loads(func["arguments"])
except json.JSONDecodeError:
pass
d["tool_calls"] = tool_calls
result.append(d)
return result