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From: Muhammad Hamza <attackerv21@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 01:07:06 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix(client): normalize and strip model names before request
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## Summary
This change improves how model names are handled inside `_base_client.py`.

Previously, if a developer passed a model name with uppercase letters
(e.g. `"GPT-4O-MINI"`) or extra spaces (e.g. `" gpt-4o-mini "`),
the client would send it directly to the API. Since the backend is strict and only accepts exact lowercase identifiers (like `"gpt-4o-mini"`), this would cause:

```
BadRequestError: unexpected model name format
```

---

## Changes
- Added a normalization step in `BaseClient._build_request`:
  - Automatically converts model names to lowercase.
  - Removes leading/trailing whitespace.

---

## Why
This small improvement:
- Prevents confusing **400 errors** when users accidentally use uppercase or spacing.
- Makes the SDK more developer-friendly and forgiving without altering API behavior.
- Increases compatibility across both **OpenAI** and **Gemini** endpoints (since Gemini APIs accessed through the OpenAI Agent SDK also require strict lowercase model identifiers).
- Keeps compatibility with existing OpenAI models — now `"GPT-4"`, `" gPt-4 "`, and `"gpt-4"` all resolve correctly.

---

## Examples

### Before (OpenAI model)
```python
client.chat.completions.create(model="GPT-4O-MINI", messages=[...])
# ❌ Error: unexpected model name format
```

### After (OpenAI model)
```python
client.chat.completions.create(model="GPT-4O-MINI", messages=[...])
# ✅ Works: normalized to "gpt-4o-mini"
```

---

### Before (Gemini model used with `OpenAIChatCompletionsModel`)
```python
client = AsyncOpenAI(
    api_key=API_KEY,
    base_url="https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/"
)

model = OpenAIChatCompletionsModel(
    model=" Gemini-2.5-flash ",  # note extra spaces / mixed casing
    openai_client=client,
)
# ❌ Error: unexpected model name format
```

### After (Gemini model with fix applied)
```python
model = OpenAIChatCompletionsModel(
    model=" GeMiNi-2.5-flAsH ",
    openai_client=client,
)
# ✅ Works: normalized to "gemini-2.5-flash"
```

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## Impact
- 🚫 No breaking changes.
- ✅ Safer and more user-friendly client behavior.
- ✅ Prevents tricky case/spacing bugs for both OpenAI and Gemini model IDs.
- ✅ Helps beginners and production apps avoid unnecessary API errors.

---

## 🔑 Why This Matters
Whether using standard **OpenAI models** (`gpt-4o`, `gpt-4o-mini`, etc.) or integrating **Google Gemini models** via the OpenAI Agent SDK, developers will no longer run into frustrating case/format errors just because of casing or whitespace.

This makes the SDK **robust, cross-compatible, and beginner-friendly**.
---
 src/openai/_base_client.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/openai/_base_client.py b/src/openai/_base_client.py
index d5f1ab0903..22d78db3c5 100644
--- a/src/openai/_base_client.py
+++ b/src/openai/_base_client.py
@@ -492,6 +492,14 @@ def _build_request(
             else:
                 raise RuntimeError(f"Unexpected JSON data type, {type(json_data)}, cannot merge with `extra_body`")
 
+        
+        # --- PATCH START (Normalize model name) ---
+        if isinstance(json_data, dict) and "model" in json_data:
+            if isinstance(json_data["model"], str):
+                json_data["model"] = json_data["model"].strip().lower()
+        # --- PATCH END ---
+
+        
         headers = self._build_headers(options, retries_taken=retries_taken)
         params = _merge_mappings(self.default_query, options.params)
         content_type = headers.get("Content-Type")