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Deeply-nested-body test fails on macOS: rejected as INVALID_REQUEST (-32600) instead of PARSE_ERROR (-32700)
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Description
Running the test suite on macOS (observed on GitHub macos-latest, Python 3.14) fails one test that passes on Ubuntu and Windows:
FAILED tests/server/test_streamable_http_modern.py::test_modern_post_with_deeply_nested_body_is_parse_error_not_a_crash
> assert response.json()["error"]["code"] == PARSE_ERROR
E assert -32600 == -32700
The response status is 400 in both cases; only the JSON-RPC error code differs. The test expects the RecursionError raised while parsing the deeply nested body to classify as a parse error, but on Darwin it surfaces as INVALID_REQUEST, so the recursion limit is evidently being hit in a different layer there (macOS threads run with a smaller default stack, which moves where the recursion guard strikes).
This is unrelated to any open PR: it fails identically on current main (3a6f299) and on feature branches, reproduced across repeated runs on macos-latest. Repro:
uv sync --frozen
uv run --frozen pytest tests/server/test_streamable_http_modern.py::test_modern_post_with_deeply_nested_body_is_parse_error_not_a_crash
CI currently runs Ubuntu and Windows only, which is why this has gone unnoticed; worth deciding separately whether macos-latest should join the matrix.
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Start with tests/server/test_streamable_http_modern.py::test_modern_post_with_deeply_nested_body_is_parse_error_not_a_crash and run the provided uv pytest command on macOS and another platform. Trace where the RecursionError is classified and compare the resulting JSON-RPC codes. Done means the platform-specific behavior is understood and the test's expected parse-error handling is consistent without a crash.
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- macos, python
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- operating-systems, testing-qa
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