feat(client): add context-aware task polling helper by Whxuan0701 · Pull Request #954 · mark3labs/mcp-go

Whxuan0701 · 2026-08-18T12:31:29Z

Description

Adds a small, context-aware client helper for polling long-running MCP tasks until they reach a terminal state. The helper follows the server-provided pollInterval when available and falls back to a caller-provided interval.

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Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
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MCP spec compatibility implementation
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My code follows the code style of this project
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I have updated the documentation accordingly

Additional Information

WaitForTask keeps task orchestration at the client boundary without introducing a background goroutine or changing existing task RPC methods. It returns the latest task state for completed, failed, or cancelled tasks, propagates request errors, and stops promptly when the caller's context is cancelled. Non-positive fallback intervals and overflowing server intervals are rejected explicitly.

The polling behavior follows the task fields defined by the MCP Tasks utility, but this PR is an SDK convenience API rather than a protocol change.

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New Features
- Added task-waiting support that automatically polls until a task completes or reaches a terminal state.
- Respects server-provided polling intervals and supports cancellation through the request context.
- Reports clear errors for invalid or overflowing polling intervals, interrupted polling, and task retrieval failures.
Tests
- Added coverage for task completion, repeated polling, server-provided intervals, cancellation, invalid intervals, overflow handling, and retrieval errors.

mark-iii-labs-huly · 2026-08-18T12:31:44Z

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Added Client.WaitForTask to poll GetTask until a terminal task state or context cancellation. The method validates fallback and server-provided intervals. Tests cover polling, cancellation, interval validation, wrapped errors, and scripted transport behavior.

Changes

Task polling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
WaitForTask polling flow `client/task_wait.go`	Adds `Client.WaitForTask`, exported polling errors, interval validation, task retrieval, terminal-state handling, server interval precedence, timer-based waiting, and context cancellation.
Polling behavior validation `client/task_wait_test.go`	Tests terminal results, polling to completion, server intervals, cancellation, invalid intervals, overflow handling, wrapped `GetTask` errors, and scripted transport requests.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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The new polling helper is otherwise mergeable, but the owner should run the repository’s required lint and generation checks before merging to confirm formatting, generated code, and validation remain clean.

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Inline comments:
In `@client/task_wait_test.go`:
- Around line 79-94: The test
TestClient_WaitForTask_ContextCancellationInterruptsPolling should cancel the
context only after the first SendRequest returns the working task. Use the
transport’s request observation or callback to trigger cancellation, then assert
exactly one request was made and that WaitForTask promptly returns
context.Canceled during the polling wait.

In `@client/task_wait.go`:
- Around line 18-19: Define exported sentinel errors for invalid fallback and
overflowing server poll intervals, return them from the corresponding validation
branches in client/task_wait.go at lines 18-19 and 38-39, and wrap
Client.GetTask failures at lines 27-29 with the “get task” context using %w.
Update client/task_wait_test.go lines 96-119 to verify these errors with
errors.Is or assert.ErrorIs instead of comparing error text.

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Whxuan0701 marked this pull request as ready for review August 18, 2026 12:35

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Whxuan0701 force-pushed the feat/client-wait-for-task branch from d6797ae to 2a89242 Compare August 18, 2026 12:46

ezynda3 merged commit 816148c into mark3labs:main Sep 2, 2026
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Update module github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go to v1 claytono/go-unifi-mcp#265

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