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Summary

Makes the merchant-specific subdomain (MSSD) mandatory. Initializing without a subdomain already emitted a deprecation warning, so this finishes the job: it now throws a ValueError. Callers must either set subdomain, or explicitly opt out with useLegacyDomain: true, which ships @deprecated in the type definitions. Both, or neither, throws.

Changes

  • src/auth-builder.js — new validateDomainOptions() replaces the two deprecation warnings; the EnvironmentSubdomain is only built once the options are known valid; new isPreviousPlatform()
  • src/config.js — new PREVIOUS_SECRET_KEY_REGEX
  • types/dist/Checkout.d.ts — documents subdomain as required and adds useLegacyDomain, marked @deprecated so editors and tsc flag it
  • test/config/config.js, test/environment-subdomain/environment-subdomain-integration.js — the cases that asserted invalid subdomains being silently dropped now assert the throw; added coverage for the legacy opt-out and for both-set
  • test/transfers, test/hosted-payments, test/payments-links — the clients there now pass the subdomain their own nock host already expected

Two exemptions

A custom host replaces the base URL outright, so the merchant has already said where requests go. Previous (ABC) keys predate merchant-specific subdomains.

Fixed along the way

The Previous exemption needed a new regex: MBC_LIVE_SECRET_KEY_REGEX only matches live keys, so sandbox Previous keys (sk_test_<uuid>) were not recognised as that platform.

Verification

884 tests passing, 0 failing, 79 pending. The one eslint error (prefer-const in src/api/balances/balances.js) is pre-existing on master and untouched here.

API Reference

Breaking changes

Yes, two. This needs a major release, classified and versioned when the release is cut.

  1. The merchant-specific subdomain is mandatory for the Default and DefaultOAuth platforms. Code that omitted it and relied on the implicit fallback to api.checkout.com / access.checkout.com now fails at client construction. Migration: set the subdomain, or use the legacy-domain opt-out as a temporary measure. The Previous (ABC) platform is unaffected.
  2. An invalid subdomain now fails instead of being silently ignored. Callers passing a malformed value keep working against the shared host today; after this change they fail fast. This one is easy to miss because it is not what the ticket asked for, so it needs its own line in the release notes.

README

Updated in this PR: a "Subdomain value" section above the Default example, the subdomain added to the configuration samples, and a "Legacy domain (emergency use only)" section at the bottom.

Notes

The suite routes every client it builds through a single helper that uses the shared hosts. Applying the merchant-specific subdomain there looked better, since it is the path merchants are being moved to, but the sandbox OAuth clients are not provisioned for it: .NET CI failed 224 integration tests with invalid_client when the token request went to {subdomain}.access.sandbox.checkout.com. Binding those OAuth clients to the subdomain is a platform task and should land before merchants are told the subdomain is mandatory.

Reference implementation: checkout-sdk-net#590. Tracked as INT-1688.

No version bump here: that happens on master when the release is cut, per the release workflow.

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🟡 Risk Classification: MINOR

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🟠 Advisory review: Concerns worth a look

This PR needs a human approval. Before you give it, these are the things I'd want resolved.

The change correctly replaces deprecation warnings with hard failures and adds a useLegacyDomain escape hatch, but there is a concrete correctness gap: the truncated isPreviousPlatform implementation is not fully visible, and what is visible shows it may not correctly exempt Previous (ABC) sandbox keys — the PR description explicitly calls out that MBC_LIVE_SECRET_KEY_REGEX only matches live keys, and the fix (PREVIOUS_SECRET_KEY_REGEX) is referenced but its definition is cut off in the diff.

Concerns

  • The isPreviousPlatform method body is truncated at the point of the regex check — the reviewer cannot verify that PREVIOUS_SECRET_KEY_REGEX correctly matches both live (sk_<uuid>) and sandbox (sk_test_<uuid>) Previous keys, which is the stated fix for the bug described in the PR body.
  • The config.js diff is also truncated — PREVIOUS_SECRET_KEY_REGEX is referenced in the description but its definition cannot be confirmed from what is shown; the reviewer should check that the regex covers the sk_test_<uuid> sandbox shape.
  • In test/transfers/transfers.js, new Checkout('test', { subdomain: '123456789' }) uses a 9-character subdomain value ('123456789') — if EnvironmentSubdomain.isValidSubdomain enforces an 8-character limit (matching the documented MSSD length), this test will throw at construction rather than reaching the mocked 401, silently defeating the test intent.
  • Similarly in test/hosted-payments/hosted-payments.js and test/payments-links/payments-links.js, the subdomain '123456789' (9 chars) is used — same potential issue if the validator enforces the 8-char rule.
  • All integration test files have been switched from subdomain: process.env.CHECKOUT_MERCHANT_SUBDOMAIN to useLegacyDomain: true with a comment explaining sandbox OAuth clients aren't provisioned for the subdomain; this is a pragmatic workaround but means the integration suite no longer exercises the subdomain path at all, so the primary code path introduced by this breaking change has no integration-level test coverage.

⚠️ The diff was too large to read in full, so this review covers only part of the change.


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…-out

Initializing without a subdomain already emitted a deprecation warning, so this
finishes the job: it now throws a ValueError. Callers must either set
`subdomain`, or opt out explicitly with `useLegacyDomain: true`, which ships
deprecated in the type definitions. Both, or neither, throws.

An invalid subdomain also throws now instead of being silently dropped back to
the shared host, which is a second breaking change: a malformed value currently
works and the caller never finds out.

Two exemptions. A custom `host` replaces the base URL outright, so the merchant
has already said where requests go. Previous (ABC) keys predate merchant-specific
subdomains, matched by the new PREVIOUS_SECRET_KEY_REGEX, which covers both live
and sandbox key shapes (MBC_LIVE_SECRET_KEY_REGEX only matched live).

Mirrors checkout-sdk-net#590. Refs INT-1688.
…is unset

CI failed at module load with "subdomain is required". Twenty-four test files
read the subdomain from CHECKOUT_MERCHANT_SUBDOMAIN, but no workflow exports it,
so the option arrived undefined. That used to be harmless, it just meant no
subdomain; now it throws.

They all spread domainOptions() instead, which uses the subdomain when the
variable is set and the legacy hosts otherwise. Exporting the variable in CI
would not be enough on its own: the sandbox OAuth clients are not provisioned for
the subdomain, so the token request would come back invalid_client.

This only reproduced in CI because the variable happens to be set locally.
Flagged in review. A custom host is exempt from *requiring* a subdomain, since it
replaces the base URL outright, but a subdomain passed alongside one was neither
validated nor used: it was quietly dropped. Now the format check applies whenever
a subdomain is present, wherever the base URL comes from.
The suite could only run against the shared hosts, so the subdomain path this PR
makes mandatory had no integration coverage. Reviewers flagged that on every SDK,
and it is the right thing to flag.

The domain helper now has two modes. Default is unchanged, the shared hosts,
because the sandbox OAuth clients are not provisioned for the subdomain and the
token request returns invalid_client. Set CHECKOUT_TEST_USE_SUBDOMAIN=true and the
suite runs against CHECKOUT_MERCHANT_SUBDOMAIN instead, so once sandbox is
provisioned like production it is a one-line change in the workflows, already
wired and documented, rather than a rewrite of every fixture.

The switch is deliberately separate from CHECKOUT_MERCHANT_SUBDOMAIN, which CI
already exports: provisioning should drive the behaviour, not the presence of a
secret.
Versions are bumped on master during the release, not in a feature branch, per
the release workflow. This branch should carry only the change itself; the major
bump is classified and applied when the release is cut.
Two problems with the previous approach. It needed a new variable in 21 workflow
files, which is not viable without access to create secrets. And it wrapped the
builder chain in a configureDomain helper that is not part of the public API, so
the tests stopped looking like the code a merchant would actually write.

Every fixture now calls the real opt-out inline, in the chain, with a comment
saying why: the sandbox OAuth clients are not provisioned for the merchant-specific
subdomain, so the token request comes back invalid_client. When sandbox is
provisioned, those calls become the subdomain setter.

The unit tests covering all four combinations are untouched: they already used the
public API directly.
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🟡 Risk Classification: MINOR

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Classification reasons

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Files analysed: 34


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