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What

Span Input/Output payloads rendered one fixed way, which made JSON payloads hard to scan and markdown payloads render as escaped text.

This replaces SpanPayloadBlock with SpanPayloadView, which renders a payload in one of three formats — raw (verbatim), md (rendered markdown), or json (pretty-printed and syntax-highlighted) — plus a SpanPayloadFormatToggle that sits on the section trigger.

The two share state through useSpanPayloadFormat, called in SpanMetadataAccordions because the toggle renders in slotEnd while the payload renders in slotContent.

Behavior

  • Payloads open in json when they parse as JSON and raw otherwise, so the common case needs no click.
  • The toggle hides itself when the span has no payload, and disables json (with an explanatory tooltip) for payloads that are not JSON.
  • Selecting a format on a collapsed section also opens it.
  • The choice is scoped to the payload it was made for, so selecting another span re-derives the default instead of inheriting the previous span's view.
  • The trigger is a <summary>, so each button suppresses the row toggle.
  • Payloads at or above 20,000 characters paint a spinner for one frame before mounting the renderer, and skip Shiki highlighting so the full text always appears.
  • Kind-specific payloads (e.g. the retriever query) use SpanPayloadView without a toggle and take the same default.

Note on the key workaround

CodeSnippetCode in @nvidia/foundations-react-core stores the Shiki-highlighted HTML in state and never clears it. When language goes jsontext, skipHighlight becomes true and the highlight effect early-returns, so codeToRender still holds the previous highlighted markup and renders it via dangerouslySetInnerHTML instead of the new raw value — selecting raw from json left the pretty-printed JSON on screen.

Worked around by keying CodeSnippet on the language it is given, so it remounts with clean state on every format change. Keying on language rather than the format also covers the case where a large JSON payload falls back to text and would otherwise inherit a previous payload's markup. Worth fixing upstream — CodeSnippetCode should reset highlightedCode when skipHighlight flips true.

Testing

  • 13 unit tests in SpanPayloadView.test.tsx, including a regression test for the stale-markup bug above (verified it fails without the key and passes with it).
  • Full IntakeDetail suite: 43 tests pass.
  • tsc --noEmit and eslint clean.
  • Verified manually in Studio against a live LLM span: raw renders the single-line payload, json pretty-prints it, md renders markdown, and all transitions between the three round-trip correctly.

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  • New Features

    • Added Raw, Markdown, and JSON viewing options for span input, output, and retriever query payloads.
    • Added automatic format detection, JSON fallback handling, empty-state messaging, and deferred rendering for large payloads.
    • Format selections open the relevant section and persist for each payload.
    • Improved code highlighting when switching formats.
    • Preserved numeric formatting, including large integers, negative zero, and duplicate keys, in JSON views.
  • Documentation

    • Documented payload format behavior, defaults, and rendering details.

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SpanPayloadView now renders raw, Markdown, and JSON payloads. It supports empty states, deferred rendering for large payloads, format selection, JSON fallback, and preserved numeric source text. Intake accordions and retriever spans use the shared viewer.

Span payload viewer

Layer / File(s) Summary
Payload format state and rendering
web/packages/studio/src/components/IntakeDetail/IntakeComponents/spanPayloadFormat.ts, web/packages/studio/src/components/IntakeDetail/IntakeComponents/useSpanPayloadFormat.ts, web/packages/studio/src/components/IntakeDetail/IntakeComponents/SpanPayloadView.tsx, web/packages/studio/package.json
Adds format detection, selection state, JSON source preservation, Markdown rendering, deferred large-payload rendering, and empty states.
Accordion integration
web/packages/studio/src/components/IntakeDetail/SpanMetadataAccordions.tsx, web/packages/studio/src/components/IntakeDetail/SpanTemplates/RetrieverSpanContent.tsx
Adds payload toggles to input and output sections, opens sections on format selection, and replaces retriever payload rendering.
Viewer validation and documentation
web/packages/studio/src/components/IntakeDetail/IntakeComponents/SpanPayloadView.test.tsx, web/packages/studio/src/components/IntakeDetail/README.md
Tests rendering, format selection, fallback behavior, callbacks, payload changes, numeric formatting, and absent payloads. Documents payload formats and interaction behavior.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SpanPayloadFormatToggle
  participant SpanMetadataAccordions
  participant SpanPayloadView
  SpanPayloadFormatToggle->>SpanMetadataAccordions: select raw, Markdown, or JSON
  SpanMetadataAccordions->>SpanMetadataAccordions: open associated accordion section
  SpanMetadataAccordions->>SpanPayloadView: pass selected format
  SpanPayloadView->>SpanPayloadView: defer large payload rendering
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web/packages/studio/src/components/IntakeDetail/IntakeComponents/SpanPayloadView.tsx (1)

44-53: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Mark immutable view contracts as readonly.

Mark the fields in SpanPayloadFormatState, SpanPayloadFormatToggleProps, and SpanPayloadViewProps as readonly. These consumers do not own these values.

As per coding guidelines: “Use readonly for immutable properties.”

Also applies to: 102-106, 167-175

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In
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around lines 44 - 53, Mark every property in the immutable view contracts
SpanPayloadFormatState, SpanPayloadFormatToggleProps, and SpanPayloadViewProps
as readonly, including the format state, callback, boolean flags, and component
props; do not alter their types or behavior.

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- Around line 40-50: Add a test case alongside the existing large-payload test
for a payload created with 'x'.repeat(20_000); render SpanPayloadView, assert
the “Rendering payload” loader appears initially, then wait for it to disappear
and verify the payload renders.

In
`@web/packages/studio/src/components/IntakeDetail/IntakeComponents/SpanPayloadView.tsx`:
- Around line 27-35: Update the JSON payload parsing logic in SpanPayloadView so
every non-empty trimmed value reaches JSON.parse, allowing valid scalar payloads
such as booleans, null, strings, and numbers to produce the formatted JSON view.
Preserve the null result for empty or invalid input, and extend the relevant
tests with scalar JSON cases.
- Around line 70-76: Update the selection state in SpanPayloadView to include
the originating span.span_id and payload role (input or output), and only reuse
the stored format when both match the current span and role; otherwise derive
the default format again. Add a regression test covering two spans with
identical input or output text to verify their format selections remain
independent.
- Around line 195-210: Update the deferred-render state in SpanPayloadView so
payload changes from small to large reset showPayload before CodeSnippet or
MarkdownContent mounts; track a signature including text and resolved in the
effect/state logic, and add a regression test covering the small-to-large
rerender transition.

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In
`@web/packages/studio/src/components/IntakeDetail/IntakeComponents/SpanPayloadView.tsx`:
- Around line 44-53: Mark every property in the immutable view contracts
SpanPayloadFormatState, SpanPayloadFormatToggleProps, and SpanPayloadViewProps
as readonly, including the format state, callback, boolean flags, and component
props; do not alter their types or behavior.
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web/packages/studio/src/components/IntakeDetail/IntakeComponents/SpanPayloadView.test.tsx (1)

114-126: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover exponent notation and negative zero.

The test does not verify 1e2 or -0. Add assertions for both preserved literals.

Proposed test update
-        value='{"span_id":9007199254740993,"score":1.0}'
+        value='{"span_id":9007199254740993,"score":1.0,"ratio":1e2,"negative_zero":-0}'
@@
     expect(codeText()).toHaveTextContent('"score": 1.0');
+    expect(codeText()).toHaveTextContent('"ratio": 1e2');
+    expect(codeText()).toHaveTextContent('"negative_zero": -0');
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In
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around lines 114 - 126, Extend the SpanPayloadView pretty-printing test to
assert that exponent notation such as 1e2 and negative zero (-0) are preserved
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the test case around SpanPayloadView and codeText without changing unrelated
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- Around line 114-126: Extend the SpanPayloadView pretty-printing test to assert
that exponent notation such as 1e2 and negative zero (-0) are preserved as
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Can you also add a screenshot to the description?

Oh the irony.

Comment thread web/packages/studio/package.json Outdated
Span Input/Output payloads rendered one fixed way, which made JSON
payloads hard to scan and markdown payloads render as escaped text.

Replace SpanPayloadBlock with SpanPayloadView, which renders a payload
as verbatim text, rendered markdown, or pretty-printed JSON, plus a
SpanPayloadFormatToggle for the section trigger. The two share state
through useSpanPayloadFormat, called in SpanMetadataAccordions because
the toggle renders in slotEnd while the payload renders in slotContent.
Types and helpers sit in spanPayloadFormat, so each module exports one
kind of thing.

Payloads open in json when they parse as JSON and raw otherwise, so the
common case needs no click. The toggle hides itself for empty payloads,
disables json (with a tooltip) for payloads that are not JSON, opens a
collapsed section on selection, and scopes the choice to the payload it
was made for so another span re-derives the default.

The json view re-indents the payload text with jsonc-parser rather than
round-tripping it through JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(...)), which routes
every number through a float64: an int64 span id such as
9007199254740993 rendered as 9007199254740992, 1.0 as 1, and duplicate
keys collapsed to the last. Values are never converted, so the view is
lossless. jsonc-parser's own applyEdits is quadratic (~6s for a 585KB
payload), so the edits it produces are applied in a single pass.

Payloads at or above 20,000 characters paint a spinner for one frame and
skip Shiki highlighting so the full text always appears. Deferral is
decided during render, since an effect runs only after a commit has
already mounted the renderer with the new payload.

CodeSnippet keeps highlighted markup in state and never clears it, so
switching from json to raw left the pretty-printed markup on screen. Key
CodeSnippet on the language it is given so it remounts with clean state
on every format change.

react-markdown and its remark chain are ~100KB for a format most readers
never select, so the markdown renderer loads on demand and Suspense
falls back to the same spinner the large-payload path already shows.

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Replaces the jsonc-parser source re-indenting with JSON source text access,
dropping the dependency.

Parse with a reviver that re-emits each number as the literal it was parsed
from, via JSON.rawJSON and the reviver's context.source, then pretty-print as
before. Integers past 2^53 such as an int64 span id, along with 1.0, 1e2, and
-0, survive unchanged.

No feature detection: engines without JSON source text access (before
Chrome 114, Firefox 135, Safari 18.4) pass no context, so the reviver falls
through to the parsed value and the view degrades to the reformatted numbers.
TypeScript 6.0.3 declares neither API, so both are typed locally.

This gives up one case jsonc-parser covered: a payload repeating a key keeps
only the last, since the object is built before any reviver runs. Noted on
parseJsonPayload, with raw as the exact view, and its test is removed.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Rhyne <rrhyne@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Rhyne <rrhyne@nvidia.com>
SpanPayloadView owned the spinner placeholder it renders in two places, which
left two components in one module. Give it its own file, which also drops Flex
and Spinner from the view's imports.

Also raise the timeout on the two assertions that wait for the markdown
renderer. It arrives through a dynamic import, and on a cold module cache that
can outlast findBy's 1s default, so a fresh checkout could fail the suite where
a warm one passed.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Rhyne <rrhyne@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Rhyne <rrhyne@nvidia.com>
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