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fix(arweave): reject pending transactions in the tx-data source - #906

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Problem

ArweaveCompositeClient.getData (the tx-data retrieval source) reads /tx/{id}/data and /tx/{id}/data_size from the trusted node. For a transaction the node knows but hasn't mined, both routes answer 202 with the text Pending:

GET /tx/dm96LMH2…/data_size  -> 202 "Pending"
GET /tx/dm96LMH2…/data       -> 202 "Pending"

The trusted node's axios instance accepts any 2xx response. As a result, getData:

  • base64url-decoded "Pending" as the transaction's data, producing a few junk bytes;
  • computed the size as +"Pending", which is NaN.

Seen on a gateway soaking develop, for a request that fell through to tx-data:

  • x402 pricing: failed with Error during payment processing: Invalid price format: $NaN.
  • Uncaught exception: Value is not a valid number: NaN. The byte histogram threw inside the stream's end listener. A listener that throws also stops the end listeners registered after it.
  • Rate limiting: the predicted token count was Math.max(1, Math.ceil(NaN / 1024)), which is NaN. With that count, the Redis bucket script consumes nothing, so the request skipped rate-limit accounting. Checked against a scratch Redis: the stored bucket is not corrupted.

The code dates from 2024, so this is pre-existing, not a recent regression.

Fix

getData now:

  1. accepts only 200 answers from both routes, so 202 Pending throws;
  2. requires data_size to be a non-negative safe integer;
  3. rejects data whose decoded length differs from data_size;
  4. skips the byte metrics when the size is not finite, so a bad value can't throw from the end listener.

Each rejection throws, so the request falls through to the next source.

The length check was confirmed against real data. For five format-1 transactions that a node serves in full (200), decoded length equals data_size exactly. For format-2 transactions the route answers 404, which already threw.

The rate limiter is unchanged. With the source fixed, it no longer receives NaN.

Tests

New getData tests:

  • a mined transaction, full and range. The full case also asserts that end listeners added later still run;
  • a pending transaction (202 Pending);
  • a non-numeric size;
  • a length mismatch;
  • a non-finite region size, where later end listeners still run.

Removing any one of the four guards fails exactly its own test.

Verification

  • composite-client.test.ts: 25/25 pass.
  • yarn test: 2537 tests, 2532 pass, 4 skipped, 1 failure. The failure is parquet-exporter, which needs GLIBC 2.32 and also fails on develop on this host.
  • yarn build and yarn lint:check: pass.
  • yarn typecheck: 433 errors, the same count as develop, and none in the changed files.
  • CHANGELOG updated under Fixed.

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ArweaveCompositeClient.getData reads `/tx/{id}/data` and
`/tx/{id}/data_size` from the trusted node. For a transaction the node knows
but has not mined, both answer `202` with the text "Pending". The trusted
node's axios instance accepts any 2xx, so getData base64url-decoded "Pending"
as the transaction's data and computed its size with `+"Pending"`, i.e. NaN.

Seen during a soak on develop: requesting such a transaction logged
`Invalid price format: $NaN` from x402 pricing, and `Value is not a valid
number: NaN` as an uncaught exception, thrown by the byte histogram inside
the stream's 'end' listener. A NaN size also makes the rate limiter predict
NaN tokens; the Redis bucket script then consumes nothing (checked against a
scratch Redis), so such a request skips token accounting, though the stored
bucket is not corrupted.

getData now:
- accepts only 200 answers from both routes;
- requires `data_size` to be a non-negative safe integer;
- rejects data whose decoded length differs from `data_size` (checked
  against five format-1 transactions a node serves in full: all match);
- skips the byte metrics for a non-finite size, because a throwing 'end'
  listener also stops the listeners registered after it.

Each failure throws, so the request falls through to the next source.

New tests cover a mined transaction (full and range), a pending one, an
invalid size, a length mismatch and a non-finite region size; removing any
one guard fails exactly its test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The tx-data source now accepts only successful node responses, validates data_size, checks payload length, and avoids invalid metrics updates. Tests cover mined, regional, pending, invalid-size, and mismatched-payload cases.

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Transaction data validation

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Response and stream validation
src/arweave/composite-client.ts
getData rejects non-200 responses, requires a non-negative safe-integer data_size, verifies decoded payload length, and skips metrics updates when the streamed byte count is non-finite.
Validation coverage and release notes
src/arweave/composite-client.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md
Tests cover successful and regional reads, pending transactions, invalid sizes, mismatched payload lengths, and stream end-listener behavior. The changelog records the fix.

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