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Elior Nataf LackritzandGitHub a6731f4367 fix(langgraph): keep a DeltaChannel's value when its field changes to a plain reducer (#9302)
Changing a field from a `DeltaChannel` to a plain reducer, for example
to `Annotated[list, add_messages]`, made threads written under the
`DeltaChannel` read that field as empty. The next run saved its writes
over the empty value, so continuing an old thread replaced its history.
The writes were still stored: the read only rebuilt fields whose current
annotation is a `DeltaChannel`.

- A `BinaryOperatorAggregate` stores its value at every version, so one
with a version and nothing stored was written as a `DeltaChannel`. It's
now rebuilt from the same history walk, one `update` per write, since a
single call would reject a second `Overwrite` and drop the writes after
one.
- `BinaryOperatorAggregate.from_checkpoint` unwraps a stored
`_DeltaSnapshot`.
- The next run saves the full value, so later reads are plain reads, and
switching back to a `DeltaChannel` keeps everything.

Threads written under a plain reducer never walk. A rebuilt read costs
the walk plus one reducer call per write since the last snapshot: with
`add_messages` on `InMemorySaver`, 25 ms at 2,048 messages with a
snapshot every 50 writes, and 0.3 s at 1,998 or 0.9 s at 4,998 messages
with the default 1000. After one run, reads take 6 to 16 ms.

`test_delta_channel_to_plain.py` covers every saver; all but the
plain-thread test fail on main.

JS: langchain-ai/langgraphjs#3017
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