feat(api-utils): HTTP 402 payment-required middleware

[kutluhaneth46]

Summary

• Adds paymentRequiredValidator Hono middleware for ACK-Pay 402 challenges
• Verifies receipts from Authorization or X-ACK-Payment-Proof headers
• Injects verified ackPayment into route context
• Adds paymentRequired() / forbidden() exception helpers

Closes #171

Test plan

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• pnpm --filter @repo/api-utils test — 10 tests pass (402 challenge, valid receipt, malformed receipt, untrusted issuer)

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• New Features

  • Added payment-required middleware that returns a signed payment challenge when no payment proof is provided.
  • Supports payment proofs through authorization tokens or dedicated payment-proof headers.
  • Valid proofs are checked against the requested payment and accepted payment options before processing continues.
  • Returns clear HTTP errors for blank or malformed proofs and proofs from untrusted issuers.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for payment challenges, valid proofs, mismatched payments, malformed tokens, and untrusted issuers.

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Changes

Payment-required request flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Payment exception helpers tools/api-utils/src/exceptions.ts	Adds forbidden for 403 responses and paymentRequired for JSON-serialized 402 payment challenges.
Receipt validation middleware tools/api-utils/src/middleware/payment-required-validator.ts	Extracts payment proofs, rejects blank or malformed proofs with 400, validates payment request and option bindings, verifies trusted issuers, and injects ackPayment.
Receipt validation coverage tools/api-utils/src/middleware/payment-required-validator.test.ts	Tests payment challenges, supported headers, valid receipts, malformed proofs, mismatched requests, and untrusted issuers.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes implement the linked issue objectives [#171]. They add payment challenge and forbidden helpers, support signed challenge responses, extract receipts from both supported headers, reject bla…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changed files directly support the payment-required middleware, its exception helpers, or its unit tests. No unrelated changes are evident.

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The changes implement the linked issue objectives [#171]. They add payment challenge and forbidden helpers, support signed challenge responses, extract receipts from both supported headers, reject blank or malformed proofs, verify issuer and receipt bindings, inject verified payment context, support middleware configuration, and add regression tests.

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Inline comments:
In `@tools/api-utils/src/middleware/payment-required-validator.ts`:
- Line 44: Update the payment validation flow around the proof and authorization
header checks to track whether each header was supplied separately from whether
its parsed value is non-empty. When either header is present but blank, return
badRequest("Invalid receipt") with HTTP 400; reserve the existing missing-proof
path and HTTP 402 response for cases where neither header was supplied, and add
coverage for both blank-header forms.
- Around line 82-86: Update the payment validation flow around
verifyPaymentReceipt to bind the receipt to options.paymentRequest before
allowing next() to proceed: pass the resolved requested payment into
verification or explicitly compare the receipt’s request identity and selected
option with it, rejecting mismatches. Add a regression test covering a receipt
issued for a different payment request.

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Addressed CodeRabbit feedback: blank X-ACK-Payment-Proof / Authorization: Bearer now return 400 (not a fresh 402 challenge), and verified receipts must match the configured payment request id + option set before access is granted. Added regression tests (13 passing locally).