AI SDK Provider Utilities

Common utility functions for implementing AI SDK providers.

Overview

This crate provides shared functionality for provider implementations, including HTTP header management, request/response handling, and other cross-cutting concerns. These utilities promote code reuse and consistency across different provider implementations.

Features

• Header Management - Merge and manage HTTP headers for API requests
• Reqwest Integration - Optional integration with the reqwest HTTP client

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
ai-sdk-provider-utils = "0.1.0"

For reqwest integration:

[dependencies]
ai-sdk-provider-utils = { version = "0.1.0", features = ["reqwest"] }

Header Management

The crate provides utilities for merging base headers with request-specific overrides:

use ai_sdk_provider_utils::merge_headers;
use std::collections::HashMap;

let mut base_headers = HashMap::new();
base_headers.insert("Authorization".to_string(), "Bearer token".to_string());

let mut custom_headers = HashMap::new();
custom_headers.insert("X-Custom-Header".to_string(), "value".to_string());

let merged = merge_headers(base_headers, Some(&custom_headers));

Reqwest Integration

When using the reqwest feature, you can directly create a reqwest::header::HeaderMap:

use ai_sdk_provider_utils::merge_headers_reqwest;
use std::collections::HashMap;

let mut base_headers = HashMap::new();
base_headers.insert("Authorization".to_string(), "Bearer token".to_string());

let mut custom_headers = HashMap::new();
custom_headers.insert("X-Custom-Header".to_string(), "value".to_string());

let headers = merge_headers_reqwest(base_headers, Some(&custom_headers));

// Use directly with reqwest
let response = reqwest::Client::new()
    .post("https://api.example.com/generate")
    .headers(headers)
    .json(&request_body)
    .send()
    .await?;

Use Cases

This crate is intended for use by:

• AI SDK provider implementation crates (ai-sdk-openai, ai-sdk-anthropic, etc.)
• Custom provider implementations that want consistent header handling
• Any code that needs to merge HTTP headers with override semantics

License

See the main AI SDK repository for license information.