feat(genai): Update google-genai SDK for improvements - #1244

🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Both Interactions text paths drop the mapped output_schema. map_kaapi_to_google_params still emits output_schema. Neither provider forwards it. Structured-output configs get free-form text, and no warning is returned.

• backend/app/services/llm/providers/google_aistudio.py#L442-L468: read params["output_schema"] and set the Interactions structured-output field. Or return a warning or error when the field is present.
• backend/app/services/llm/providers/google_gcp.py#L503-L520: apply the same forwarding in the GCP request builder. Share one helper with AI Studio.

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Review comment at @backend/app/services/llm/providers/google_aistudio.py around
lines 442 - 468:
Both Interactions request builders drop the mapped output_schema, so
structured-output configurations silently become free-form text. In
google_aistudio.py at lines 442–468, forward output_schema using the
Interactions structured-output field or return a warning or error when it is
present; apply the same change in google_gcp.py at lines 503–520, sharing a
helper between the AI Studio and GCP builders.

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Per-field fallback can mix BYOK and platform credentials.

Each field falls back to platform settings independently, and the service-account path wins. Two realistic states give wrong results:

• A project stores only api_key, and the platform sets GCP_SA_KEY and GCP_PROJECT_ID. Then sa_credentials and project_id is true, and the client authenticates with the platform service account. The customer's api_key is ignored, so usage goes to the platform project.
• A project stores only sa_key, and the platform sets GCP_PROJECT_ID. Then project_id resolves to the platform project, not the key's own project_id. Requests run against the wrong project and usually fail with 403. The documentation says the project defaults to the key's own project_id.

Resolve the auth method from one source. If the stored row supplies any auth field, use only BYOK auth fields. For an SA key, prefer the key's project_id over the platform GCP_PROJECT_ID. The existing tests do not cover these combinations. Add tests for them.

-        api_key = credentials.get("api_key") or settings.GCP_VERTEX_API_KEY
-        sa_info = _parse_sa_info(credentials.get("sa_key")) or _parse_sa_info(
-            settings.GCP_SA_KEY
-        )
-        project_id = (
-            credentials.get("project_id")
-            or settings.GCP_PROJECT_ID
-            or (sa_info or {}).get("project_id")
-        )
+        byok_auth = bool(credentials.get("api_key") or credentials.get("sa_key"))
+        src = credentials if byok_auth else {}
+        api_key = src.get("api_key") or (None if byok_auth else settings.GCP_VERTEX_API_KEY)
+        sa_info = _parse_sa_info(src.get("sa_key")) or (
+            None if byok_auth else _parse_sa_info(settings.GCP_SA_KEY)
+        )
+        project_id = (
+            credentials.get("project_id")
+            or (sa_info or {}).get("project_id")
+            or settings.GCP_PROJECT_ID
+        )

Also applies to: 137-150

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Review comment at @backend/app/services/llm/providers/google_gcp.py around lines
104 - 121:
Update the authentication and project selection in the Google GCP provider so
BYOK auth fields cannot be combined with platform credentials. When credentials
supplies an api_key or sa_key, use only its auth fields; for an SA key, resolve
project_id from the credential row or parsed service-account info before falling
back to platform settings. Add tests covering BYOK api_key with platform SA
credentials and BYOK sa_key with a platform project ID.

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We can directly annotate the variable as interaction: Interaction = self.client.interactions.create(...) instead of using cast(). This keeps the type annotation simple and avoids an unnecessary cast().

Since this interaction creation logic is duplicated throughout the file, can we create a single reusable function that accepts parameters like type, adjusts the input structure accordingly, and returns the Interaction object? What do you think?

yes I was of the same opinion. Not sure why Claude prefers cast. Will update that. Thakns for flagging it

we can have this mapped dict at the top level, where key would status code and the value would be the message, this way it would look clean and easily manageable. just a suggestion

u can re-use our existing pydantic model for gcp sa ->
backend/app/core/providers.py

if sa_credentials and project_id:
auth_mode = "service_account"
genai_client = genai.Client(
vertexai=True,
project=project_id,
location=location,
credentials=sa_credentials,
http_options=http_options,
)
elif api_key:
auth_mode = "api_key"
genai_client = genai.Client(

this can be folded to-gether i guess