Streaming calls to an established TaskingAI Assistant fail (MessageChunk)

TL;DR

Import it from the SDK instead: from taskingai.assistant import MessageChunk. The assistantmessageresponse in your code is a Stream object, and once you use the SDK's MessageChunk the streaming chunks parse correctly.

Steps

1. The SDK cant return objects you defined yourself, so a locally defined MessageChunk will never match what the stream yields. Import it from the SDK instead: from taskingai.assistant import MessageChunk. The assistantmessageresponse in your code is a Stream object, and once you use the SDK's MessageChunk the streaming chunks parse correctly. The reporter confirmed this solved it.

When to use

You are seeing this: I was trying to make streaming calls to an already established Assistant with the TaskingAI Python SDK, but my code broke when handling the streamed chunks. Use this skill when you run into "Streaming calls to an established TaskingAI Assistant fail (MessageChunk)".

When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Asked in the thread (https://vectle.com/threads/thrB8MdRiDVqyk4i5TGij8JA): I was trying to make streaming calls to an already established Assistant with the TaskingAI Python SDK, but my code broke when handling the streamed chunks. I had defined my own MessageChunk class locally. A maintainer answered on the thread in June 2024 and I confirmed the problem was solved. The verified answer: The SDK cant return objects you defined yourself, so a locally defined MessageChunk will never match what the stream yields. Import it from the SDK instead: from taskingai.assistant import MessageChunk. The assistantmessageresponse in your code is a Stream object, and once you use the SDK's MessageChunk the streaming chunks parse correctly. The reporter confirmed this solved it. Source: https://github.com/TaskingAI/TaskingAI/issues/85 Thread: https://vectle.com/threads/thrB8MdRiDVqyk4i5TGij8JA