fix(ack-pay): enforce payment request expiresAt

[kutluhaneth46]

Fixes #222

Set JWT exp from expiresAt at issue time and reject past expiresAt during verification (unless verifyExpiry is disabled).

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• Bug Fixes
  • Payment-request tokens now expire according to the request’s expiration time, and extra fields cannot override that expiry.
  • Verification rejects payment requests with invalid or elapsed expiration times by default. This check can be disabled through the existing expiry-verification option.
  • Token creation rejects requests whose expiration time has already passed.

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Walkthrough

Payment-request token creation now validates the request and sets JWT expiry from expiresAt. Token verification rejects invalid or elapsed payload expiry values when expiry checks are enabled. Tests and a patch changeset cover these changes.

Changes

Payment request expiry

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Set expiry when creating tokens packages/ack-pay/src/create-payment-request-token.ts, packages/ack-pay/src/create-payment-request-token.test.ts, packages/ack-pay/src/create-signed-payment-request.test.ts, packages/ack-pay/src/create-payment-receipt.test.ts, .changeset/enforce-payment-request-expires-at.md	Token creation validates and projects the request before signing. When expiresAt is present, it sets JWT expiresIn from the remaining lifetime and rejects a non-positive lifetime. Tests check the JWT expiry, and fixtures use future expiration dates. The changeset describes the behavior.
Check expiry when verifying tokens packages/ack-pay/src/verify-payment-request-token.ts, packages/ack-pay/src/verify-payment-request-token.test.ts, packages/ack-pay/src/create-payment-receipt.test.ts	Verification rejects invalid or elapsed paymentRequest.expiresAt values when expiry verification is enabled. A test covers an expired payload without a JWT exp claim.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 103ec

Payment-request tokens now expire at the request’s expiresAt, and verification rejects expired requests. The supplied tests cover both behaviors, with no identified merge-blocking risk.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 103ec

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: packages/ack-pay

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Systems and components

• observed — packages/ack-pay (library) was modified; 6 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in packages/ack-pay/src/create-payment-receipt.test.ts: The fixture now expires at 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z instead of the fixed system time, 2024-12-31T23:59:59Z.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/ack-pay/src/verify-payment-request-token.test.ts: Adds a test that signs a payment request containing an expiresAt timestamp one minute in the past, with no JWT exp claim, and verifies that token validation throws InvalidPaymentRequestTokenError with a message matching /expired/i.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/ack-pay/src/verify-payment-request-token.ts: When verifyExpiry is enabled or omitted, a present expiresAt is parsed as a date; an invalid timestamp or one at or before the current time throws InvalidPaymentRequestTokenError. This adds request-payload expiry validation beyond JWT exp verification.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/ack-pay/src/create-payment-request-token.test.ts: Added a test that passes a payment request containing both expiresAt and a far-future exp claim to token creation, verifies the resulting JWT, and checks that its exp is not the supplied far-future value and is within five seconds of the expiresAt timestamp.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: enforcing payment request expiresAt handling in ack-pay.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR meets the coding requirements in issue #222. createPaymentRequestToken validates and projects the request before signing, derives JWT exp from expiresAt, and rejects non-future expiry val…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within issue #222. Source changes enforce payment-request expiry. Tests update time-sensitive fixtures and cover expiry behavior. The changeset documents the related release behavior.…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 6 files.

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packages/ack-pay/src/create-signed-payment-request.test.ts (1)

93-108: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the JWT expiry claim in this test.

The test passes expiresAt to createSignedPaymentRequest but checks only result.paymentRequest.expiresAt. The existing token tests use fixtures without expiresAt, so removing or corrupting the JWT exp claim for expiring requests would remain undetected. Assert the decoded token’s exp value for this fixture.

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Review comment at @packages/ack-pay/src/create-signed-payment-request.test.ts
around lines 93 - 108:
Update the “includes expiresAt in ISO string format when provided” test for
createSignedPaymentRequest to also assert that the decoded JWT exp claim matches
the supplied expiresAt value, while retaining the existing
paymentRequest.expiresAt assertion.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/ack-pay/src/create-payment-request-token.ts:
- Line 54: Update createPaymentRequestToken to prevent unprojected
paymentRequest fields from overriding the JWT expiry: project the payload
through paymentRequestSchema or reject reserved JWT claims such as exp before
signing, while preserving the expiresIn-generated exp.

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Review comments at @packages/ack-pay/src/create-signed-payment-request.test.ts:
- Around line 93-108: Update the “includes expiresAt in ISO string format when
provided” test for createSignedPaymentRequest to also assert that the decoded
JWT exp claim matches the supplied expiresAt value, while retaining the existing
paymentRequest.expiresAt assertion.

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• packages/ack-pay/src/create-signed-payment-request.test.ts
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[kutluhaneth46]

Addressed the CodeRabbit finding: payment request payloads are now projected through paymentRequestSchema before JWT signing so a smuggled exp cannot override expiresAt-derived expiry. Regression test included; ack-pay vitest suite green (52).

[kutluhaneth46]

@venables — ready for review when you have bandwidth. CodeRabbit's exp-override finding is addressed (schema projection + regression test); vitest ack-pay 52/52 green; CI success.

[kutluhaneth46]

Addressed the CodeRabbit nit: the expiresAt signed-request test now also asserts the decoded JWT exp matches the supplied expiry (with small clock skew). ack-pay vitest still green.