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Summary

Resolves #7440.

ContextualAIParseTool._run() previously polled Contextual AI status in an unbounded while True: sleep(5) loop. If an upstream job hung or took an indefinite amount of time, the tool call blocked the agent indefinitely.

Changes

  • Added poll_timeout (default: 300s) and poll_interval (default: 5s) fields to ContextualAIParseTool.
  • Used time.monotonic() deadline tracking to raise a clean TimeoutError when the budget is exceeded.
  • Added raise_for_status() to HTTP response calls for proper failure detection.
  • Added comprehensive unit tests in lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_contextual_parse_tool.py covering success, timeout, and failure states.

Testing

Ran unit tests with pytest:

  • test_contextual_parse_tool_success PASSED
  • test_contextual_parse_tool_timeout PASSED
  • test_contextual_parse_tool_failed_status PASSED

- Add poll_timeout (default 300s) and poll_interval (default 5s) to ContextualAIParseTool
- Enforce monotonic deadline check in polling loop to prevent infinite polling
- Add raise_for_status() to validate HTTP responses
- Add unit tests covering successful parsing, timeout, and failure states

Resolves crewAIInc#7440
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The ContextualAI parse tool validates polling settings, enforces a deadline, bounds request and sleep durations, validates HTTP responses, and propagates timeout errors. Tests cover successful, timed-out, failed, and invalid configurations.

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ContextualAI polling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded polling and HTTP validation
lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/contextualai_parse_tool/contextual_parse_tool.py
The tool requires positive polling values, tracks the remaining deadline, limits request and sleep durations, validates HTTP responses, formats HTTP failures, and re-raises TimeoutError.
Polling behavior regression coverage
lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_contextual_parse_tool.py
Tests cover successful parsing, timeout propagation, failed statuses, HTTP errors, positive-value validation, and required fixtures.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant ContextualAIParseTool
  participant ContextualAI
  Caller->>ContextualAIParseTool: Run with file path
  ContextualAIParseTool->>ContextualAI: Submit parse job
  ContextualAI-->>ContextualAIParseTool: Return job ID
  loop Until terminal status or timeout
    ContextualAIParseTool->>ContextualAI: Request status within remaining time
    ContextualAI-->>ContextualAIParseTool: Return processing or terminal status
  end
  ContextualAIParseTool->>ContextualAI: Fetch results
  ContextualAI-->>ContextualAIParseTool: Return page text or HTTP error
  ContextualAIParseTool-->>Caller: Return parsing result or failure message
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding a bounded polling timeout to ContextualAIParseTool.
Description check ✅ Passed The description identifies issue #7440, explains the problem and solution, and lists relevant tests. It does not use the exact Verification or Additional context headings, but it provides the required…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The pull request satisfies the coding requirements in [#7440]. poll_timeout defaults to 300 seconds and poll_interval defaults to 5 seconds. time.monotonic() enforces the total polling duration.…
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lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/contextualai_parse_tool/contextual_parse_tool.py (1)

124-124: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Retain HTTP response details in the returned error.

raise_for_status() attaches the upstream response to requests.HTTPError, but this broad handler returns only str(e). Contextual AI validation details in the response body are lost. Catch requests.HTTPError before the generic handler and include the response text as error context.

Based on learnings: include the actual HTTP response content when reporting HTTP client failures, and prefer specific exception handling over a broad catch.

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In
`@lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/contextualai_parse_tool/contextual_parse_tool.py`
at line 124, Update the exception handling around raise_for_status in the
contextual parse flow to catch requests.HTTPError before the generic Exception
handler, and include the attached response text in the returned error context.
Preserve the generic handler for non-HTTP failures while ensuring HTTP client
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In
`@lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/contextualai_parse_tool/contextual_parse_tool.py`:
- Around line 37-41: Update the polling configuration fields in
ContextualParseTool so poll_interval and poll_timeout validate strictly positive
values, rejecting zero and negative inputs before polling begins. Preserve their
existing defaults and descriptions while applying the validation to the Field
definitions.
- Line 111: Update the polling loop in the contextual parse tool to compute the
remaining duration before each status request, pass that value as the
requests.get timeout, and cap sleep(self.poll_interval) to the same remaining
duration. Ensure the loop rechecks the deadline promptly and never waits beyond
poll_timeout.

In `@lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_contextual_parse_tool.py`:
- Around line 19-84: The contextual parse tests only cover successful HTTP
responses, so they do not verify HTTP error handling. Extend the tests around
ContextualAIParseTool._run and the existing request mocks to make at least one
submission, status, or result response raise requests.HTTPError from
raise_for_status, then assert the expected failure result.

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In
`@lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/contextualai_parse_tool/contextual_parse_tool.py`:
- Line 124: Update the exception handling around raise_for_status in the
contextual parse flow to catch requests.HTTPError before the generic Exception
handler, and include the attached response text in the returned error context.
Preserve the generic handler for non-HTTP failures while ensuring HTTP client
errors retain the upstream validation details.

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- Add gt=0 validation to poll_timeout and poll_interval fields
- Cap request timeout and sleep interval to remaining duration
- Preserve HTTP error response text on requests.HTTPError
- Add unit tests for HTTP error handling and field validation

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- Around line 103-105: Add an explicit except TimeoutError handler before the
generic except Exception handler in the contextual parsing flow so the timeout
raised by the polling deadline propagates to callers unchanged, while other
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- Add except TimeoutError: raise before general Exception handler
- Update test_contextual_parse_tool_timeout to assert raised TimeoutError
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ContextualAIParseTool can poll forever when a parse job never reaches a terminal state

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