## Summary
`langchain_fireworks._convert_message_to_dict` ships LangChain canonical
v0/v1 multimodal content blocks (e.g. `{"type": "image", "base64": ...,
"mime_type": ...}`) on the wire unchanged. Fireworks' OpenAI-compatible
chat completions API rejects the unknown `base64`/`mime_type` keys and
the list shape on roles that expect a string, returning HTTP 422 — so
any image upload, including via tools that return image content blocks,
fails for Kimi K2.6 and other Fireworks vision models.
This change mirrors
`langchain_openai.chat_models.base._format_message_content`:
- Walk `content` blocks.
- Drop block types the chat-completions wire doesn't carry (`tool_use`,
`thinking`, `reasoning_content`, `function_call`,
`code_interpreter_call`).
- Detect v0/v1 multimodal data blocks via
`langchain_core.messages.is_data_content_block`, and translate them via
`convert_to_openai_data_block(..., api="chat/completions")`.
- Strings and non-list content pass through unchanged.
Applied in the `ChatMessage`, `HumanMessage`, `SystemMessage`, and
`ToolMessage` paths of `_convert_message_to_dict`. `AIMessage` already
routes through `_convert_from_v1_to_chat_completions` for v1 output and
assistant content is text-only on the way out, so it is left untouched.
## Why this approach
Fireworks is OpenAI-compatible. The canonical → OpenAI translator
already exists in `langchain_core.messages.block_translators.openai` and
is the same one `langchain-openai` uses. Reusing it (rather than
inventing a Fireworks-specific translator) gives:
- v0 (`source_type`-based) and v1 (`base64`/`url`-based) data block
coverage for free.
- Consistent behavior with `langchain-openai` for image, file, and any
future canonical data block.
- A small, focused diff (≈30 lines of new code, plus tests).
## Test plan
- [x] `make test` passes (64/64 unit tests, including 9 new ones for the
new helper and translation paths).
- [x] `make lint` passes (ruff check, ruff format, mypy, lint_imports).
- [ ] End-to-end: image upload to a Kimi K2.6 (Fireworks) agent
translates to `{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url":
"data:image/png;base64,..."}}` on the wire and the model returns a
coherent description (validated locally against
`langchain-fireworks==1.0.0` site-packages with the same patch).
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Co-authored-by: murugand23 <murugand23@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Mason Daugherty <github@mdrxy.com>
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