fix(swap-service): fail swaps left unsettled 24h after registration

[kaladinlight]

Description

A swap whose source transaction never mines, or whose deposit never reaches the swapper, stays PENDING forever. The swapper keeps reporting a non-terminal status, checkSwapStatus maps everything non-terminal to PENDING, and nothing inspects the source transaction to terminate it. The poller then re-checks it every five seconds indefinitely.

Staging held four of these, 42–128 days old. Three had a source transaction that does not exist on chain (confirmed against two independent nodes each); the fourth was a NEAR Intents deposit where the transaction was mined and succeeded but moved the wrong asset, so the swapper never saw a deposit.

resolveStalledSwap marks a swap FAILED once the swapper still cannot settle it 24 hours after registration. The threshold is safe because no enabled swapper settles anywhere near that slowly — an unmined transaction is long past every EVM mempool lifetime (geth evicts at 3h by default), and NEAR Intents quotes carry a 24h deadline of their own, which is a useful independent confirmation of the figure.

The reason goes into statusMessage along with the swapper's last reported status, e.g. Abandoned: unsettled 24h after registration (last swapper status: Waiting for deposit...). That detail is currently computed on every poll and discarded, because pollTxStatus returns early before logging when the status has not changed — so today there is no record anywhere of why a swap is stuck.

The message deliberately states only the observable fact plus the swapper's own verdict, rather than asserting a cause. Both failure modes above are genuinely different, and a message claiming "source tx not found" would be false for the NEAR case.

Only PENDING is affected, so a slow settle is never overridden.

Testing

• yarn workspace @shapeshift/swap-service test — 85 passing (81 before)
• Four new cases: fails past the timeout, preserves the swapper's message, leaves a swap pending inside the window, and never overrides SUCCESS/FAILED however old the swap
• Verified against real staging data: the four affected rows are 42–128 days old, so all fall well outside the window

Note FAILED is terminal — getPendingTxSwaps selects only IDLE/PENDING, so a failed swap is never re-checked. The generous threshold is deliberate for that reason: a false positive is permanent, and payout requires SUCCESS.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Swaps that remain pending for more than 24 hours are now marked as failed with an abandonment message.
  • Recent pending swaps retain their current status and message.
  • Completed or previously failed swaps are no longer overridden by timeout handling.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for stalled, active, successful, and failed swap scenarios.

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The swap service now resolves PENDING swaps older than 24 hours as FAILED, includes the last reported swapper status in the abandonment message, preserves active and terminal statuses, and applies the logic during status checks.

Changes

Stalled Swap Resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pending timeout and resolution apps/swap-service/src/swaps/constants.ts, apps/swap-service/src/swaps/utils.ts, apps/swap-service/src/swaps/__tests__/utils.test.ts	Defines the 24-hour timeout. Adds resolveStalledSwap and tests expired, active, and terminal swap statuses.
Status check integration apps/swap-service/src/swaps/swaps.service.ts	Applies resolveStalledSwap when checkSwapStatus builds the response status fields.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ee2c3

This change can still leave old swaps stuck indefinitely when status polling fails, and a concurrent settlement could potentially be replaced by an incorrect timeout failure. These bounded correctness risks should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge, along with the reported formatting issues.

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apps/swap-service/src/swaps/swaps.service.ts (1)

402-405: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Apply stalled-swap resolution when status polling throws.

When swappers[swap.swapperName].checkTradeStatus rejects, the catch block returns PENDING directly. A swap older than PENDING_TIMEOUT_MS can remain pending. Route this result through resolveStalledSwap('PENDING', swap.createdAt, ...) and add a regression test.

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In `@apps/swap-service/src/swaps/swaps.service.ts` around lines 402 - 405, Update
the checkTradeStatus error path in the swap polling flow so its result passes
through resolveStalledSwap with the PENDING status and swap.createdAt, rather
than returning PENDING directly. Preserve the existing error status message, and
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PENDING_TIMEOUT_MS.

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- Around line 14-15: Fix the lint and formatting issues in
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In `@apps/swap-service/src/swaps/swaps.service.ts`:
- Around line 402-405: Update the checkTradeStatus error path in the swap
polling flow so its result passes through resolveStalledSwap with the PENDING
status and swap.createdAt, rather than returning PENDING directly. Preserve the
existing error status message, and add a regression test covering a polling
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[kaladinlight]

Re: the outside-diff suggestion to route the checkSwapStatus catch block through resolveStalledSwap — not taking it.

The catch block is where we have the least information: we don't know the swap is unsettled, only that we couldn't reach the swapper. Failing there means a swap that settled at hour 25 gets marked FAILED permanently because the swapper's API blipped for five minutes while we polled it. getPendingTxSwaps selects only IDLE/PENDING, so nothing re-checks it — the partner loses a real fee and the user sees a wrong status. Without the change that swap simply stays PENDING until the API recovers and then resolves correctly.

The risks are also not symmetric. The failure mode this would fix — a swap that errors on every poll and so never terminates — has zero observed instances: all four stuck swaps in staging returned clean non-terminal statuses, and a persistently-erroring swap would emit logger.error every 5 seconds, which we would have seen. Meanwhile third-party APIs blipping is a certainty. Polling forever on a persistent error costs a few wasted requests; wrongly failing a settled swap costs money and cannot be undone.

If we want to close the persistent-error case later, the right fix is making FAILED recoverable — let the poller re-check recently-failed swaps — which removes the one-way-door risk from both paths rather than trading one failure mode for a worse one.

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Reconsidered and implemented a version of this in f67cffb.

The finding was right that the catch path leaves a real hole — a swapper that throws on every poll never reaches the timeout, so the swap polls forever. That is the same eternal-PENDING case this PR exists to close, just reached a different way, and my first reply understated it as merely wasted requests.

What I still did not want was the same 24h threshold on that path, since an unreachable swapper is no evidence the swap is dead — only that we could not ask. Failing on that would permanently fail a swap that settled at hour 25 while the swapper's api happened to blip, and FAILED is a one-way door.

Both concerns resolve with a second, much longer window, since confidence that a swap is dead rises with age:

• swapper reports unsettled → fail at 24h (we have its verdict)
• swapper unreachable → fail at 7d (we have nothing, so demand much more)

A transient outage cannot reach seven days, but a swap that has been failing for a week terminates instead of polling indefinitely. The last error is preserved in statusMessage either way, so it stays diagnosable.

Two tests added: a swap two days old with an unreachable swapper stays PENDING; one eight days old fails with Abandoned: unsettled 7d after registration (last swapper status: Error polling status: …). 87 passing.