unsloth/studio/backend/core/inference/message_content.py
Daniel Han bebc93d8fc
fix(studio): handle multimodal list content in inference text paths (#4383) (#6480)
* fix(studio): handle multimodal list content in inference text paths

Studio receives chat message content in two shapes: the legacy string
form, and the OpenAI multimodal list form
([{"type": "text", "text": ...}, {"type": "image_url", ...}]).
Several string-only paths called .strip()/re.sub()/f-string interpolation
on content directly, raising "'list' object has no attribute 'replace'"
for vision models (issue #4383), or rendering the list repr into the
prompt for the manual chat-template formatters.

Add core/inference/message_content.py with content_to_text(), a pure
helper (no heavy imports) that returns strings unchanged and joins the
text parts of a list while dropping image/audio parts. Apply it at every
string-only content site: _generate_vision_response, the audio user-text
extraction, format_chat_prompt, and the llama3/mistral/chatml/alpaca/
generic template formatters. The plain-string path is a no-op, so
existing behavior is unchanged.

Adds tests/test_message_content.py covering str/None/list/tuple,
multimodal drop, multi-part join and empty-part skipping.

* Tighten code comments (no logic change)

* studio: join multimodal text parts with newline for llama.cpp parity

llama.cpp joins multiple text content parts with a newline (common/chat.cpp),
so match that in content_to_text instead of a single space.

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Co-authored-by: Daniel Han <michaelhan2050@gmail.com>
2026-06-23 01:26:11 -07:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
# Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved. See /studio/LICENSE.AGPL-3.0
"""Normalize chat-message `content` (string or OpenAI multimodal list) to text.
String-only formatting paths called string ops directly on `content` and broke
on the list form (#4383). `content_to_text` collapses either shape to a string,
dropping non-text parts. No heavy imports, so it is unit-testable alone.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from typing import Any
def content_to_text(content: Any) -> str:
"""Plain text of a `content`: str unchanged, list/tuple text parts newline-joined
(non-text dropped), None to "", else str(content)."""
if content is None:
return ""
if isinstance(content, str):
return content
if isinstance(content, (list, tuple)):
parts = []
for item in content:
if isinstance(item, str):
if item:
parts.append(item)
elif isinstance(item, dict):
# Skip non-text parts (image_url, input_audio, ...).
part_type = item.get("type")
if part_type is not None and part_type != "text":
continue
text = item.get("text")
if isinstance(text, str) and text:
parts.append(text)
return "\n".join(parts)
return str(content)