Session id is normalized on write but not on read: after bfeb04c a padded id creates a session that cannot be read, deleted, or re-created (in_memory and sqlite, incl. the adk web / adk run store)

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`#6887` was fixed and merged as `bfeb04c` (via `#6892`). The fix normalizes `session_id` on **write** and leaves **read** untouched, so on current `main` a caller who consistently passes an unnormalized id now ends up with a session that cannot be read, cannot be deleted, and cannot be re-created. The same asymmetry already lived in `SqliteSessionService`, which is the store behind `adk web` / `adk run`.

Measured on `c3d3730` (`main`, contains `bfeb04c`).

**Environment:** `google-adk` 2.6.3 from an editable checkout at `c3d3730` · Python 3.12.13 · macOS 26.3.1 · no model involved (session store only, LiteLLM N/A) · reproduces **always (100%)**.

## Repro

```python
import asyncio, os, tempfile

PADDED = 'order-42\n' # e.g. an id read from a file, env var, or CSV cell
TRIMMED = 'order-42'

async def run(name, svc):
from google.adk.errors.already_exists_error import AlreadyExistsError
app, user = 'app', 'u'
created = await svc.create_session(app_name=app, user_id=user,
session_id=PADDED, state={'cart': ['book']})
print(f'--- {name} ---')
print(' create(PADDED).id =', repr(created.id))
print(' get(PADDED) =', 'HIT' if await svc.get_session(
app_name=app, user_id=user, session_id=PADDED) else 'MISS')
print(' get(TRIMMED) =', 'HIT' if await svc.get_session(
app_name=app, user_id=user, session_id=TRIMMED) else 'MISS')
try:
await svc.create_session(app_name=app, user_id=user, session_id=PADDED)
print(' re-create(PADDED) = ok (overwrote the live session)')
except AlreadyExistsError:
print(' re-create(PADDED) = AlreadyExistsError')
await svc.delete_session(app_name=app, user_id=user, session_id=PADDED)
print(' delete(PADDED) =', 'STILL THERE' if await svc.get_session(
app_name=app, user_id=user, session_id=TRIMMED) else 'gone')

async def main():
from google.adk.sessions.in_memory_session_service import InMemorySessionService
from google.adk.sessions.sqlite_session_service import SqliteSessionService
await run('InMemorySessionService', InMemorySessionService())
d = tempfile.mkdtemp()
await run('SqliteSessionService (backs `adk web` / `adk run`)',
SqliteSessionService(db_path=os.path.join(d, 'session.db')))

asyncio.run(main())
```

Output on `c3d3730` — identical for both services:

```
create(PADDED).id = 'order-42'
get(PADDED) = MISS
get(TRIMMED) = HIT
re-create(PADDED) = AlreadyExistsError
delete(PADDED) = STILL THERE
```

The caller passed one string throughout and never learns the id was rewritten: `create_session` returns a `Session` whose `.id` differs from what was handed in, and every later call with the original string misses.

Same probe on `bfeb04c~1` (`5ca0746`, before the merged fix) differs in exactly one line — `re-create(PADDED) = ok (silently replaced)`. So `bfeb04c` traded a silent overwrite for a session with no way out. Both are the write half of one contract.

## Root cause

`session_id` is normalized where it is stored and used raw where it is looked up.

| service | normalizes | uses the raw string |
|---|---|---|
| `in_memory_session_service.py` | `_create_session_impl` (`:117`) | `_get_session_impl` (`:183`), `_delete_session_impl` (`:303`, `pop(session_id)`) |
| `sqlite_session_service.py` | `create_session` (`:210`) | `get_session` (`:275`), `delete_session` (`:403`) |

`DatabaseSessionService` and `RedisSessionService` do not normalize at all, so they are symmetric — a different semantics, not a healthier one.

`_delete_session_impl` is not fixed by fixing `_get_session_impl`: it calls `_get_session_impl` and then does `pop(session_id)` on the raw string, so normalizing only the read path turns a silent no-op into a `KeyError`. Both need the same line.

## Why the suite stayed green

`bfeb04c` added tests for the write direction only. Reverting the merged `strip()` at `in_memory_session_service.py:117` on `main`:

```
4 failed, 391 passed, 2 xfailed
FAILED test_create_session_with_padded_duplicate_id_raises_error
FAILED test_create_session_with_blank_id_generates_one
(+2 failures that are pre-existing on untouched main)
```

The write direction is pinned by two tests. The read direction is pinned by none — `tests/unittests/sessions/` is `2 failed, 393 passed, 2 xfailed` on `main` with the bug live, and the two failures (`test_load_dialect_impl_spanner`, `test_vertex_ai_session_service_raises_not_implemented_for_get_user_state`) fail identically on untouched `main`.

## Proposed fix

Four one-line strips, mirroring the two that already exist:

- `in_memory_session_service.py` — first line of `_get_session_impl` and of `_delete_session_impl`
- `sqlite_session_service.py` — first line of `get_session` and of `delete_session`

each `session_id = session_id.strip() if session_id else session_id`.

With those four lines the repro above reads `HIT / HIT / AlreadyExistsError / gone` on both services, and `tests/unittests/sessions/` is `2 failed, 393 passed, 2 xfailed` — byte-identical to the control run on untouched `main`.

## Contract test

`tests/unittests/sessions/_conformance.py` is the right home: it already holds every backend to a shared contract and makes an exception written and visible.

```python
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_session_id_accepted_by_create_is_usable_by_get_and_delete(
session_service,
):
"""Whatever string create_session accepted must address the same session in
get_session and delete_session."""
app_name, user_id = 'my_app', 'test_user'
session_id = 'order-42\n'

await session_service.create_session(
app_name=app_name, user_id=user_id, session_id=session_id
)
assert (
await session_service.get_session(
app_name=app_name, user_id=user_id, session_id=session_id
)
is not None
), 'get_session cannot address the id create_session accepted'

await session_service.delete_session(
app_name=app_name, user_id=user_id, session_id=session_id
)
assert (
await session_service.get_session(
app_name=app_name, user_id=user_id, session_id=session_id.strip()
)
is None
), 'delete_session did not remove the session it was pointed at'
```

On `main`: `4 failed, 2 passed` — red on `in_memory`, `in_memory_light_copy`, `sqlite`, `per_agent_database`; green on `database` and `redis`, which pass only because they never normalize. Note that two of the four red rows are one root: `per_agent_database` is `SqliteSessionService` under `.adk/session.db`, i.e. the store `adk web` and `adk run` create (`cli/utils/local_storage.py:66`).

With the four-line fix: `6 passed`.

## Scope

Checked and not affected: `append_event` takes the id from `session.id` (already normalized by `create_session`), and `list_sessions` does not key on a caller-supplied id. `VertexAiSessionService` was not exercised. The HTTP surface was not measured — this is reported at the `BaseSessionService` contract level.

Happy to open a PR with the four lines plus the contract test if you would rather have it as a diff than as an issue.