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Invalid request: no messages.

Error message

Invalid request: no messages.

What it means

Error "Invalid request: no messages." thrown in microsoft/vscode.

Source

Thrown at extensions/copilot/src/extension/conversation/vscode-node/languageModelAccess.ts:1008

		}
	}

	private validateTools(tools: readonly vscode.LanguageModelChatTool[]): void {
		for (const tool of tools) {
			if (!tool.name.match(/^[\w-]+$/)) {
				throw new Error(`Invalid tool name "${tool.name}": only alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores are allowed.`);
			}
		}
	}

	private async countToolTokens(endpoint: IChatEndpoint, tools: readonly vscode.LanguageModelChatTool[]): Promise<number> {
		return await endpoint.acquireTokenizer().countToolTokens(tools);
	}

	private validateRequest(_messages: Array<vscode.LanguageModelChatMessage | vscode.LanguageModelChatMessage2>): void {
		const lastMessage = _messages.at(-1);
		if (!lastMessage) {
			throw new Error('Invalid request: no messages.');
		}

		_messages.forEach((message, i) => {
			if (message.role === vscode.LanguageModelChatMessageRole.Assistant) {
				// Filter out DataPart since it does not share the same value type and does not have callId, function, etc.
				const filteredContent = message.content.filter(part => part instanceof vscode.LanguageModelDataPart);
				const toolCallIds = new Set(filteredContent
					.filter(part => part instanceof vscode.LanguageModelToolCallPart)
					.map(part => part.callId));
				let nextMessageIdx = i + 1;
				const errMsg = 'Invalid request: Tool call part must be followed by a User message with a LanguageModelToolResultPart with a matching callId.';
				while (toolCallIds.size > 0) {
					const nextMessage = _messages.at(nextMessageIdx++);
					if (!nextMessage || nextMessage.role !== vscode.LanguageModelChatMessageRole.User) {
						throw new Error(errMsg);
					}

					nextMessage.content.forEach(part => {

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at extensions/copilot/src/extension/conversation/vscode-node/languageModelAccess.ts:1008 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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