feat(translation): support buffered Gemini generateContent

[deepujain]

What

Register a buffered gemini_generate_content codec in the translation engine. It converts native Gemini conversation parts, function calls and results, common generation settings, candidate responses, and token usage through the existing neutral IR.

Why

A caller with native generateContent JSON currently needs an OpenAI-compatible adapter. This provides the library-level request and response conversion requested in #642. The model remains URL-owned; server endpoints, TOML configuration, streaming, and Relay wiring are outside this change.

Notes for reviewers

Start with codecs/gemini.rs and the public-engine tests in gemini_translation.rs. Exact native preservation retains fields that the IR cannot express. Projected conversions diagnose unsupported controls, and strict policies reject them. Thought signatures stay native, reasoning is separated from visible text, generated tool IDs avoid explicit IDs, and tool errors retain their error envelope.

Validation covers native replay and reconstructed round trips, OpenAI and Anthropic tool histories, media parts, cache and reasoning token accounting, malformed inputs, and strict-loss boundaries. Rust workspace tests and clippy, the prefill-router checks, formatting, Ruff, mypy, and Python tests passed (133 Python tests, one skip, two subtests). No credentialed Gemini API request or server integration was exercised.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added support for translating buffered Gemini generateContent requests and responses, including content, tool interactions, schemas, settings, and usage information.
  • Added mappings between Gemini and other supported provider formats, with policy-controlled handling of unsupported or lossy content.
• Documentation
  • Documented supported Gemini mappings, preservation behavior, and limitations.

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Walkthrough

The translation engine now includes a buffered Gemini generateContent codec. The codec maps Gemini requests and responses to and from the neutral representation, with content, tool, schema, usage, preservation, and loss-policy handling. Integration tests and documentation cover the new mappings.

Changes

Gemini translation codec

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Request mapping and codec registration crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/gemini.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/mod.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/src/engine.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/gemini_translation.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/README.md, docs/translation/gemini.md	Adds request conversion for content, tools, schemas, and generation settings. The codec is exposed and registered as a built-in. Tests cover request mappings, validation, and policy behavior. The README and guide describe the buffered codec and its supported mappings.
Response mapping and cross-format validation crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/gemini.rs, crates/switchyard-translation/tests/gemini_translation.rs	Adds response conversion for candidates, stop reasons, usage, and preservation. Tests cover response round trips, usage normalization, and cross-format tool translation.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5c2e6

Translating a request to Gemini can produce an empty message entry when all of that message's content is unsupported, such as an OpenAI image URL. Gemini then rejects the request. The fix is a small emptiness check; otherwise the codec is ready to merge.

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Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 48.15% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 27 functions across 4 files. (2 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding buffered Gemini generateContent translation support.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Docstring coverage is 48.15% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 27 functions across 4 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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In `@crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/gemini.rs`:
- Line 810: Update the content-building flow to store the result of
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• crates/switchyard-translation/README.md
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• crates/switchyard-translation/src/codecs/mod.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/src/engine.rs
• crates/switchyard-translation/tests/gemini_translation.rs
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[chethanuk]

thoughtsTokenCount isn't added to the output tokens, and stopSequences isn't mapped in either direction.