test: address tests failing locally (#537)

* test: address tests failing locally

Signed-off-by: Alex Bozarth <ajbozart@us.ibm.com>

* fix: fix macos mypy error

Signed-off-by: Alex Bozarth <ajbozart@us.ibm.com>

* test: address review and changes in main

Signed-off-by: Alex Bozarth <ajbozart@us.ibm.com>

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Signed-off-by: Alex Bozarth <ajbozart@us.ibm.com>

Author: ajbozarth

docs/examples/agents/react/react_from_scratch/react.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# pytest: ollama, llm
+# pytest: ollama, llm, qualitative
 
 import datetime
 import inspect
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def tool_name_schema(self):
     def get_tool_from_schema(self, content: str):
         schema = self.tool_name_schema()
         validated = schema.model_validate_json(content)
-        return self.get_tool_from_name(validated.tool)
+        return self.get_tool_from_name(validated.tool.value)
 
 
 class IsDoneModel(pydantic.BaseModel):

docs/examples/agents/react/react_from_scratch/react_instruct.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# pytest: ollama, llm
+# pytest: ollama, llm, qualitative
 
 import datetime
 import inspect
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def tool_name_schema(self):
     def get_tool_from_schema(self, content: str):
         schema = self.tool_name_schema()
         validated = schema.model_validate_json(content)
-        return self.get_tool_from_name(validated.tool)
+        return self.get_tool_from_name(validated.tool.value)
 
 
 class IsDoneModel(pydantic.BaseModel):

docs/examples/agents/react/react_using_mellea.py

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# pytest: ollama, llm
+
 """React examples using the Mellea library's framework."""
 
 import asyncio
@@ -12,7 +14,7 @@
 
 m = start_session()
 
-# Simple tool for searching. Requires the langchain_communities package.
+# Simple tool for searching. Requires the langchain-community package.
 # Mellea allows you to interop with langchain defined tools.
 lc_ddg_search = DuckDuckGoSearchResults(output_format="list")
 search_tool = MelleaTool.from_langchain(lc_ddg_search)

docs/examples/conftest.py

@@ -164,6 +164,19 @@ def _check_optional_imports(file_path):
             except ImportError:
                 return True, "langchain_core not installed"
 
+            # Check for langchain_community specifically
+            if (
+                "from langchain_community" in content
+                or "import langchain_community" in content
+            ):
+                try:
+                    import langchain_community
+                except ImportError:
+                    return (
+                        True,
+                        "langchain_community not installed (install with: uv pip install mellea[tools])",
+                    )
+
     except Exception:
         pass
 

docs/examples/image_text_models/vision_litellm_backend.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# pytest: litellm, llm
+# pytest: litellm, llm, ollama
 
 """Examples of using vision models with LiteLLM backend."""
 

docs/examples/library_interop/langchain_messages.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# pytest: ollama, llm
+# pytest: ollama, llm, qualitative
 
 # Installing langchain is necessary for this example, but it works for any library
 # you may want to use Mellea with.
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@
 # Utilize that new ChatContext to ask the assistant about its past messages.
 m = start_session(ctx=ctx)
 response = m.chat(
-    "What was the last assistant message?",
+    "What exact words did the AI assistant use in its most recent response?",
     model_options={
-        ModelOption.SEED: 2
+        ModelOption.SEED: 123
     },  # Utilizing a seed for consistency in the example.
 ).content
 

docs/examples/m_decompose/python/python_decompose_example.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# pytest: ollama, llm, slow
+# pytest: ollama, llm, slow, qualitative
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Example: Using Mellea's decompose functionality programmatically

docs/examples/telemetry/telemetry_example.py

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# pytest: ollama, llm
+
 """Example demonstrating OpenTelemetry tracing in Mellea.
 
 This example shows how to use the two independent trace scopes:

docs/examples/tools/smolagents_example.py

@@ -36,8 +36,11 @@
     print(f"Response: {result}")
 
     if result.tool_calls:
-        calc_result = result.tool_calls[python_tool.name].call_func()
-        print(f"\nCalculation result: {calc_result}")
+        try:
+            calc_result = result.tool_calls[python_tool.name].call_func()
+            print(f"\nCalculation result: {calc_result}")
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"\nTool execution failed: {e}")
 
 except ImportError as e:
     print("Please install smolagents: uv pip install 'mellea[smolagents]'")

pyproject.toml

@@ -84,8 +84,10 @@ docling = [
     "docling>=2.45.0",
 ]
 
-smolagents = [
+tools = [
     "smolagents>=1.0.0",
+    "langchain-community>=0.3.0",
+    "ddgs>=9.0.0",  # Required by DuckDuckGoSearchResults in langchain-community
 ]
 
 telemetry = [
@@ -95,7 +97,7 @@ telemetry = [
     "opentelemetry-distro>=0.59b0",
 ]
 
-all = ["mellea[watsonx,docling,hf,vllm,litellm,smolagents,telemetry]"]
+all = ["mellea[watsonx,docling,hf,vllm,litellm,tools,telemetry]"]
 
 [dependency-groups]
 # Use these like:
@@ -203,6 +205,13 @@ disable_error_code = [
     "import-not-found",
 ]
 
+[[tool.mypy.overrides]]
+# vLLM is an optional backend that doesn't work on macOS
+module = "mellea.backends.vllm"
+disable_error_code = [
+    "import-not-found",
+]
+
 [tool.codespell]
 ignore-words-list = 'mellea,hashi,noo,Asai,asai,nd,mot,rouge,Rouge,Strat,Wight'
 check-filenames = true