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Aditya Singh bde894268b feat(groq): map context-length errors to ContextOverflowError (#37676)
Fixes #37533

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`langchain-core` defines `ContextOverflowError` so that application code
can catch an over-long prompt the same way regardless of which provider
raised it. The Anthropic, OpenAI, and Fireworks integrations already
promote their provider-specific context-length errors to a subclass of
it, but `langchain-groq` did not: a context overflow there surfaced as a
plain `groq.BadRequestError`, so anyone relying on the shared exception
had to special-case Groq.

This closes that gap for Groq. It adds a `GroqContextOverflowError` (a
subclass of both `groq.BadRequestError` and `ContextOverflowError`) and
a small promoter, `_handle_groq_invalid_request`, wired into the sync
and async `generate` and `stream` paths. Because Groq's SDK mirrors
OpenAI's, the implementation follows the same shape as the existing
partners, and the promoted error keeps the original `response` and
`body` so existing catchers that inspect `.response.status_code` keep
working. Anything that already catches `groq.BadRequestError` is
unaffected, since the new class is still a `BadRequestError`.

One detail worth a reviewer's eye: Groq returns the overflow as a 400
whose JSON body carries `"code": "context_length_exceeded"`, but the
SDK's `BadRequestError` does not expose that code as an attribute. The
SDK does fold the full JSON body into the error message, so detection
primarily matches `context_length_exceeded` against the stringified
error, with `reduce the length` from the message as a secondary signal
and an attribute check kept as defensive cover in case a future SDK adds
`.code`. The unit tests construct the error exactly as the SDK does for
a 4xx response and assert promotion across all four call paths, that an
unrelated `BadRequestError` is left untouched, and that
`response`/`body` are preserved.

I scoped this to Groq and left Mistral as a follow-up: Mistral surfaces
errors as raw `httpx.HTTPStatusError` rather than a typed SDK error, and
I could not verify its exact context-overflow signal (status code plus
body `code`/`message`) against an authoritative source well enough to
assert it in a unit test without live API access, so I would rather not
guess at the shape.

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Co-authored-by: Mason Daugherty <github@mdrxy.com>
Co-authored-by: Mason Daugherty <mason@langchain.dev>
2026-07-05 00:27:44 -04:00
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