From 13403b4fdad35225ac0f7b33e63246631017c019 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shivani kumar <shivanik1920@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:03:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "fix: auto-normalize array of strings in message
 content to openai spec"

---
 litellm/utils.py                 | 10 ----------
 tests/test_litellm/test_utils.py | 32 --------------------------------
 2 files changed, 42 deletions(-)

diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index 0b131fbcf9ec..5c3ab3e14904 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -8224,16 +8224,6 @@ def validate_and_fix_openai_messages(messages: List):
         if message.get("tool_calls"):
             message["tool_calls"] = jsonify_tools(tools=message["tool_calls"])
 
-        content = message.get("content")
-        if isinstance(content, list):
-            normalized_content = []
-            for item in content:
-                if isinstance(item, str):
-                    normalized_content.append({"type": "text", "text": item})
-                else:
-                    normalized_content.append(item)
-            message["content"] = normalized_content
-
         convert_msg_to_dict = cast(AllMessageValues, convert_to_dict(message))
         cleaned_message = cleanup_none_field_in_message(message=convert_msg_to_dict)
         new_messages.append(cleaned_message)
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/test_utils.py b/tests/test_litellm/test_utils.py
index 3c94ddb1666d..d94a86d8e551 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/test_utils.py
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
     get_llm_provider,
     get_optional_params_image_gen,
     is_cached_message,
-    validate_and_fix_openai_messages,
 )
 
 # Adds the parent directory to the system path
@@ -3323,37 +3322,6 @@ def test_message_level_cache_control_non_dict_returns_false(self):
         assert is_cached_message(message) is False
 
 
-def test_normalize_array_of_strings_in_content():
-    """String items in list content become OpenAI multimodal text parts; dict parts unchanged."""
-    only_strings = validate_and_fix_openai_messages(
-        [
-            {
-                "role": "user",
-                "content": ["what is the capital of France?"],
-            }
-        ]
-    )
-    assert only_strings[0]["content"] == [
-        {"type": "text", "text": "what is the capital of France?"}
-    ]
-
-    mixed = validate_and_fix_openai_messages(
-        [
-            {
-                "role": "user",
-                "content": [
-                    "some text",
-                    {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "https://example.com/x.png"}},
-                ],
-            }
-        ]
-    )
-    assert mixed[0]["content"] == [
-        {"type": "text", "text": "some text"},
-        {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "https://example.com/x.png"}},
-    ]
-
-
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 class TestProxyLoggingBudgetAlerts:
     """Test budget_alerts method in ProxyLogging class."""