583efe9 made _append_tool_results emit content=None (JSON null) for a follow-up
assistant message that carries only tool_calls and no prose, because Gemini's
OpenAI-compatible endpoint and Ollama reject tool_calls alongside an
empty-string content with HTTP 400.
But _sanitize_llm_messages strips None values and then required "content" on
every message, so it dropped that assistant message entirely — leaving the
role:"tool" result dangling with no parent tool_calls, which breaks the
follow-up round for every provider (and regresses ones that accepted "" before,
since the message is now removed rather than sent). 583efe9's tests covered
_append_tool_results in isolation, so the sanitizer interaction was uncaught.
Make the sanitizer role-aware: assistant messages survive with content OR
tool_calls, and a tool-calls-only assistant message gets an explicit
content=None re-added so the provider receives spec-correct `content: null`.
tool messages still require content + tool_call_id; user/system still require
content.
Adds tests/test_llm_core_sanitize_tool_calls.py, which drives the real producer
(_append_tool_results) into the sanitizer and asserts the assistant tool-call
message survives with its tool result paired. Red before this change, green
after.
invalidate_search_cache(query) built its cache key as
generate_cache_key(f"{query}|10|None"), but the write path
(searxng_search_results) replaces the caller's default count of 10 with the
admin-configured _get_result_count() (default 5) before building the key.
So a default search for "X" is cached under "X|5|None", while invalidation
looked for "X|10|None" — they never match, and invalidate_search_cache
silently failed to remove anything in the default configuration, violating
its docstring ("invalidate ... just the given query").
Derive the count from _get_result_count() so invalidation matches the
default-search entry the write path actually stores. The same bug (and fix)
applies to both the src/search and services/search copies.
Note: time-filtered variants (e.g. "X|5|day") still aren't reachable from a
query-only signature, since cache keys are opaque SHA-256 hashes with no
stored query; clearing those would need a broader cache-index redesign and is
out of scope here.
Adds tests/test_search_cache_invalidation.py covering the default-count case.
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