This PR addresses the common issue where users struggle to pass custom
parameters to OpenAI-compatible APIs like LM Studio, vLLM, and others.
The problem occurs when users try to use `model_kwargs` for custom
parameters, which causes API errors.
## Problem
Users attempting to pass custom parameters (like LM Studio's `ttl`
parameter) were getting errors:
```python
# ❌ This approach fails
llm = ChatOpenAI(
base_url="http://localhost:1234/v1",
model="mlx-community/QwQ-32B-4bit",
model_kwargs={"ttl": 5} # Causes TypeError: unexpected keyword argument 'ttl'
)
```
## Solution
The `extra_body` parameter is the correct way to pass custom parameters
to OpenAI-compatible APIs:
```python
# ✅ This approach works correctly
llm = ChatOpenAI(
base_url="http://localhost:1234/v1",
model="mlx-community/QwQ-32B-4bit",
extra_body={"ttl": 5} # Custom parameters go in extra_body
)
```
## Changes Made
1. **Enhanced Documentation**: Updated the `extra_body` parameter
docstring with comprehensive examples for LM Studio, vLLM, and other
providers
2. **Added Documentation Section**: Created a new "OpenAI-compatible
APIs" section in the main class docstring with practical examples
3. **Unit Tests**: Added tests to verify `extra_body` functionality
works correctly:
- `test_extra_body_parameter()`: Verifies custom parameters are included
in request payload
- `test_extra_body_with_model_kwargs()`: Ensures `extra_body` and
`model_kwargs` work together
4. **Clear Guidance**: Documented when to use `extra_body` vs
`model_kwargs`
## Examples Added
**LM Studio with TTL (auto-eviction):**
```python
ChatOpenAI(
base_url="http://localhost:1234/v1",
api_key="lm-studio",
model="mlx-community/QwQ-32B-4bit",
extra_body={"ttl": 300} # Auto-evict after 5 minutes
)
```
**vLLM with custom sampling:**
```python
ChatOpenAI(
base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1",
api_key="EMPTY",
model="meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf",
extra_body={
"use_beam_search": True,
"best_of": 4
}
)
```
## Why This Works
- `model_kwargs` parameters are passed directly to the OpenAI client's
`create()` method, causing errors for non-standard parameters
- `extra_body` parameters are included in the HTTP request body, which
is exactly what OpenAI-compatible APIs expect for custom parameters
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OpenAI changed their API to require the `partial_images` parameter when
using image generation + streaming.
As described in https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/pull/31424, we
are ignoring partial images. Here, we accept the `partial_images`
parameter (as required by OpenAI), but emit a warning and continue to
ignore partial images.
Does not support partial images during generation at the moment. Before
doing that I'd like to figure out how to specify the aggregation logic
without requiring changes in core.
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Scheduled testing started failing today because the Responses API
stopped raising `BadRequestError` for a schema that was previously
invalid when `strict=True`.
Although docs still say that [some type-specific keywords are not yet
supported](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs#some-type-specific-keywords-are-not-yet-supported)
(including `minimum` and `maximum` for numbers), the below appears to
run and correctly respect the constraints:
```python
import json
import openai
maximums = list(range(1, 11))
arg_values = []
for maximum in maximums:
tool = {
"type": "function",
"name": "magic_function",
"description": "Applies a magic function to an input.",
"parameters": {
"properties": {
"input": {"maximum": maximum, "minimum": 0, "type": "integer"}
},
"required": ["input"],
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": False
},
"strict": True
}
client = openai.OpenAI()
response = client.responses.create(
model="gpt-4.1",
input=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is the value of magic_function(3)? Use the tool."}],
tools=[tool],
)
function_call = next(item for item in response.output if item.type == "function_call")
args = json.loads(function_call.arguments)
arg_values.append(args["input"])
print(maximums)
print(arg_values)
# [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
# [1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3]
```
Until yesterday this raised BadRequestError.
The same is not true of Chat Completions, which appears to still raise
BadRequestError
```python
tool = {
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "magic_function",
"description": "Applies a magic function to an input.",
"parameters": {
"properties": {
"input": {"maximum": 5, "minimum": 0, "type": "integer"}
},
"required": ["input"],
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": False
},
"strict": True
}
}
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-4.1",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is the value of magic_function(3)? Use the tool."}],
tools=[tool],
)
response # raises BadRequestError
```
Here we update tests accordingly.
Some providers include (legacy) function calls in `additional_kwargs` in
addition to tool calls. We currently unpack both function calls and tool
calls if present, but OpenAI will raise 400 in this case.
This can come up if providers are mixed in a tool-calling loop. Example:
```python
from langchain.chat_models import init_chat_model
from langchain_core.messages import HumanMessage
from langchain_core.tools import tool
@tool
def get_weather(location: str) -> str:
"""Get weather at a location."""
return "It's sunny."
gemini = init_chat_model("google_genai:gemini-2.0-flash-001").bind_tools([get_weather])
openai = init_chat_model("openai:gpt-4.1-mini").bind_tools([get_weather])
input_message = HumanMessage("What's the weather in Boston?")
tool_call_message = gemini.invoke([input_message])
assert len(tool_call_message.tool_calls) == 1
tool_call = tool_call_message.tool_calls[0]
tool_message = get_weather.invoke(tool_call)
response = openai.invoke( # currently raises 400 / BadRequestError
[input_message, tool_call_message, tool_message]
)
```
Here we ignore function calls if tool calls are present.
When aggregating AIMessageChunks in a stream, core prefers the leftmost
non-null ID. This is problematic because:
- Core assigns IDs when they are null to `f"run-{run_manager.run_id}"`
- The desired meaningful ID might not be available until midway through
the stream, as is the case for the OpenAI Responses API.
For the OpenAI Responses API, we assign message IDs to the top-level
`AIMessage.id`. This works in `.(a)invoke`, but during `.(a)stream` the
IDs get overwritten by the defaults assigned in langchain-core. These
IDs
[must](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-solve-badrequesterror-400-item-rs-of-type-reasoning-was-provided-without-its-required-following-item-error-in-responses-api/1151686/9)
be available on the AIMessage object to support passing reasoning items
back to the API (e.g., if not using OpenAI's `previous_response_id`
feature). We could add them elsewhere, but seeing as we've already made
the decision to store them in `.id` during `.(a)invoke`, addressing the
issue in core lets us fix the problem with no interface changes.
Chat models currently implement support for:
- images in OpenAI Chat Completions format
- other multimodal types (e.g., PDF and audio) in a cross-provider
[standard
format](https://python.langchain.com/docs/how_to/multimodal_inputs/)
Here we update core to extend support to PDF and audio input in Chat
Completions format. **If an OAI-format PDF or audio content block is
passed into any chat model, it will be transformed to the LangChain
standard format**. We assume that any chat model supporting OAI-format
PDF or audio has implemented support for the standard format.
**langchain_openai: Support of reasoning summary streaming**
**Description:**
OpenAI API now supports streaming reasoning summaries for reasoning
models (o1, o3, o3-mini, o4-mini). More info about it:
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning#reasoning-summaries
It is supported only in Responses API (not Completion API), so you need
to create LangChain Open AI model as follows to support reasoning
summaries streaming:
```
llm = ChatOpenAI(
model="o4-mini", # also o1, o3, o3-mini support reasoning streaming
use_responses_api=True, # reasoning streaming works only with responses api, not completion api
model_kwargs={
"reasoning": {
"effort": "high", # also "low" and "medium" supported
"summary": "auto" # some models support "concise" summary, some "detailed", but auto will always work
}
}
)
```
Now, if you stream events from llm:
```
async for event in llm.astream_events(prompt, version="v2"):
print(event)
```
or
```
for chunk in llm.stream(prompt):
print (chunk)
```
OpenAI API will send you new types of events:
`response.reasoning_summary_text.added`
`response.reasoning_summary_text.delta`
`response.reasoning_summary_text.done`
These events are new, so they were ignored. So I have added support of
these events in function `_convert_responses_chunk_to_generation_chunk`,
so reasoning chunks or full reasoning added to the chunk
additional_kwargs.
Example of how this reasoning summary may be printed:
```
async for event in llm.astream_events(prompt, version="v2"):
if event["event"] == "on_chat_model_stream":
chunk: AIMessageChunk = event["data"]["chunk"]
if "reasoning_summary_chunk" in chunk.additional_kwargs:
print(chunk.additional_kwargs["reasoning_summary_chunk"], end="")
elif "reasoning_summary" in chunk.additional_kwargs:
print("\n\nFull reasoning step summary:", chunk.additional_kwargs["reasoning_summary"])
elif chunk.content and chunk.content[0]["type"] == "text":
print(chunk.content[0]["text"], end="")
```
or
```
for chunk in llm.stream(prompt):
if "reasoning_summary_chunk" in chunk.additional_kwargs:
print(chunk.additional_kwargs["reasoning_summary_chunk"], end="")
elif "reasoning_summary" in chunk.additional_kwargs:
print("\n\nFull reasoning step summary:", chunk.additional_kwargs["reasoning_summary"])
elif chunk.content and chunk.content[0]["type"] == "text":
print(chunk.content[0]["text"], end="")
```
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Co-authored-by: Chester Curme <chester.curme@gmail.com>
When calling `embed_documents` and providing a `chunk_size` argument,
that argument is ignored when `OpenAIEmbeddings` is instantiated with
its default configuration (where `check_embedding_ctx_length=True`).
`_get_len_safe_embeddings` specifies a `chunk_size` parameter but it's
not being passed through in `embed_documents`, which is its only caller.
This appears to be an oversight, especially given that the
`_get_len_safe_embeddings` docstring states it should respect "the set
embedding context length and chunk size."
Developers typically expect method parameters to take effect (also, take
precedence) when explicitly provided, especially when instantiating
using defaults. I was confused as to why my API calls were being
rejected regardless of the chunk size I provided.
This bug also exists in langchain_community package. I can add that to
this PR if requested otherwise I will create a new one once this passes.