[API Proposal]: Consider populating the `chatResponse.RawRepresentation` after using `updates.ToChatResponse()`

[rogerbarreto]

Background and motivation

When converting a list of updates into a ChatResponse the RawRepresentation of the updates can't be recovered anymore.

This becomes an issue when the caller want to breakglass non-streaming API's that defer their non-streaming implementations to a streaming API.

i.e:

OpenAIAssistantChatClient.GetResponseAsync -> GetStreamingAsync().ToChatResponse()

This would enable caller breaking glass streaming implementations to be used against non-streaming API's RawRepresentations that are actually a streaming transformation.

One example that is not possible today with the current way is to break glass to retrieve the code generated in the codeInterpreter tool from a non-streaming OpenAIAssistantsChatClient API due to this deferrence.

https://github.com/dotnet/extensions/blob/da94b6045fef85f78a5eee183579221cee684e51/src/Libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.OpenAI/OpenAIAssistantsChatClient.cs#L83

Potential code for capturing the code generated.

RunStepDetailsUpdate update

// Process text content
if (update.CodeInterpreterInput != null)
{
     if ((update.CodeInterpreterOutputs?.Count ?? 0) > 0)
     {
         // custom logic to capture the generated code-content

         codeContent.Append(update.CodeInterpreterInput);

         foreach (var output in update.CodeInterpreterOutputs!)
         {
             if (output.ImageFileId != null)
             {
                 imageFiles.Add(output.ImageFileId);
             }
         }
     }
}

[!NOTE] The Code interpreter output breaking glass is just one example as I'm aware we are going to work on an abstraction to represent HostedCodeInterpreter tool output that could also take a positive potentially use this new API behavior.

API Proposal

No new API's would be introduced.

API Usage

// Option 1: Expose a list of chatReponseUpdate as the RawRepresentation
Assert.Same(updates, updates.ToChatResponse().RawRepresentation)

// Option 2: Expose a list of the RawRepresentations of the ChatResponseUpdates
Assert.Same(updates[0].RawRepresentation, (updates.ToChatResponse().RawRepresentation as IEnumerable<object?>)?.First())

Alternative Designs

No response

Risks

No response