feat(platform)!: a window after a document's last modification for moderators to delete it

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Follow-up to #4857. A document type can let the contract's moderators delete its documents, at any age. A contract may want that power to expire: moderation acts on what was just written, it does not reach back into content that has stood unchallenged. For example: "a post can not be removed by moderators once 24 hours have passed since it was last modified."

This is a parameter of the contract, declared per document type. Nothing is hard-coded: 24 hours is 86400 in the schema.

What was done?

The keyword (dpp)

"post": {
  "type": "object",
  "canBeDeletedByModerators": true,
  "canBeDeletedByModeratorsFor": 86400,
  "required": ["text", "$updatedAt"],
  ...
}

• canBeDeletedByModeratorsFor (meta-schema v3, DocumentTypeV2::documents_can_be_deleted_by_moderators_for: Option<u32>): for how many seconds after a document's last modification ($updatedAt) the moderators may still delete it. Absent means no limit, which is what feat(platform)!: moderators delete documents of the document types that allow it #4857 shipped.
• Seconds, as the other durations of a document type are (timeRange range, step, ttl). The value is a u32, so the conversion to milliseconds can not overflow.
• It needs canBeDeletedByModerators: true (it limits nothing otherwise), at least one second, and its clock in the type's required, so every document carries it. The clock is $updatedAt, set at creation and moved by a replace and by a price update (a transfer or a purchase does not move it). A type with documentsMutable: false may list $createdAt instead: nothing modifies such a document after its creation. A type whose documents can be replaced must require $updatedAt.
• Its shape is enforced by the parser itself, on the stored path too, as test(dpp): guard doctype keyword names against stray keys of contracts admitted under meta-schema v0 #4855 asks of every doctype-level keyword of this generation. The name is on neither network's list of stray doctype keys.
• Fixed with the type, in both directions (validate_update 1, DocumentTypeUpdateError): a longer window would reopen documents that had settled, and one rule keeps what an author was told when they wrote.

The rule (drive-abci)

• In the DeleteDocument transform of ContractUserModeration, after the document is read: when the type sets a window and block time is past $updatedAt + window, the deletion is refused, paid, with the new DocumentModerationWindowElapsedError (41116, StateError discriminant 134 appended and pinned, after feat(platform)!: document transitions state the action fee they agree to pay #4858's three). To the millisecond the window ends on, the deletion passes.
• Nobody is exempt, the contract owner included. The document's own owner is not concerned: canBeDeleted rules their deletion at any age.
• A replace moves $updatedAt, so rewritten content gets a fresh window. That is the point of measuring from the last modification rather than from creation: an author can not wait the window out and then edit a post into something nobody can remove.
• The transform reads $updatedAt and falls back to $createdAt. The type requires one of the two, so every document carries it; one that carried neither would read as modified at time zero, which is settled: the refusal that protects the author, not an internal error. The error names the time it used (last_modified_at).

No storage, proof, query or wire change: the keyword lives in the document schema, which clients already carry, and the transition is unchanged.

Docs: book data-model/contract-moderation.md, the error code table, the protocol version 14 changelog (item 19), the meta-schema descriptions, and the SDK doc comments of the deletion.

How Has This Been Tested?

Locally on macOS:

• cargo test -p dpp --all-features --lib: 4483 passed. New: the window parses, defaults to none, is refused without the flag (set to false or left out), without a clock in required, on a mutable type that lists only $createdAt, is accepted on an immutable type with $createdAt alone, and when it is not a positive u32 number of seconds, with and without full validation; the window can not change on an update in any direction (longer, shorter, added, removed) and passes unchanged; the pinned StateError discriminant; the stray keyword guard of test(dpp): guard doctype keyword names against stray keys of contracts admitted under meta-schema v0 #4855.
• cargo test -p drive-abci --lib -- contract_user_moderation contract_document_removals contract_moderation: 59 passed. New pipeline tests: a moderator deletes a post at exactly the last millisecond of the window; one millisecond later the moderator and the contract owner are both refused with 41116, paid, no removal record is left, and the author's own deletion still passes; a replace long after the window closed opens it again, and the record carries the later removal time; a contract update that lengthens or removes the window is refused (40212); on an immutable type that carries only $createdAt the window is measured from the creation and the refusal names that time.
• cargo test -p drive --lib -- drive::contract::moderation structure::tests: 42 passed (nothing in Drive changes; run because the document type struct gained a field).
• cargo check of drive-proof-verifier, dash-sdk, rs-sdk-ffi, and of wasm-dpp, wasm-dpp2, wasm-sdk for wasm32. cargo clippy --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings on dpp and drive-abci; cargo fmt --all -- --check; eslint on the changed TypeScript.

Not run locally: the full drive-abci and strategy suites, the wasm and JS specs (only doc comments changed there). cargo clippy -p wasm-dpp --target wasm32-unknown-unknown fails on the base branch in packages/data-contracts (an unused variable), a file this PR does not touch.

Breaking Changes

Consensus-breaking against the current v4.2-dev only, gated at protocol version 14 and in no release: a new document type keyword, a new refusal of ContractUserModeration, and a new StateError variant. A contract that does not set the keyword behaves exactly as before.

API: DocumentTypeV2Getters gains documents_can_be_deleted_by_moderators_for.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added an optional deletion window that limits how long contract moderators can delete eligible documents after their last update.
  • Document replacements reopen the deletion window; transfers and purchases do not.
  • Deletions attempted after the window expires now return a dedicated error, including for contract owners.
  • Added support for configuring and validating this setting in document types.

• Documentation

  • Updated error references and API documentation for the moderator deletion window and expiration behavior.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for expiration boundaries, window reopening, invalid configurations, and document-type updates.

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The change adds an optional, immutable moderator deletion window based on $updatedAt. It parses and validates the new document-type property, rejects expired deletions with error 41116, preserves boundary and reopening behavior, and updates related documentation and bindings.

Changes

Moderator deletion window

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Window contract and schema parsing packages/rs-dpp/schema/meta_schemas/document/v3/document-meta.json, packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/...	Document types support canBeDeletedByModeratorsFor as an optional u32 window. The parser requires moderator deletion permission and $updatedAt, rejects invalid values, stores the window on DocumentTypeV2, and exposes accessors.
Window update invariants packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/methods/validate_update/v1/mod.rs	Document type updates must keep the moderator deletion window unchanged. Tests cover adding, removing, extending, shortening, and preserving the window.
Expiration errors and deletion enforcement packages/rs-dpp/src/errors/consensus/..., packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/state_transitions/contract_user_moderation/..., packages/wasm-dpp/src/errors/consensus/consensus_error.rs	Adds DocumentModerationWindowElapsedError with code 41116. Moderator deletion fails after the deadline, succeeds at the deadline, and reopens after document modification. Tests also cover author deletion and related execution behavior.
Protocol and API documentation book/src/..., packages/js-evo-sdk/src/contracts/facade.ts, packages/rs-platform-version/src/version/v14.rs, packages/wasm-sdk/src/state_transitions/contract.rs	Documentation describes the new property, expiration behavior, and error code 41116.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DocumentMetaSchema
  participant DocumentTypeV3Parser
  participant ContractUserModeration
  participant StateError
  DocumentMetaSchema->>DocumentTypeV3Parser: provide canBeDeletedByModeratorsFor
  DocumentTypeV3Parser->>ContractUserModeration: store validated window
  ContractUserModeration->>ContractUserModeration: compare block time with updated_at plus window
  ContractUserModeration->>StateError: return error 41116 after expiration

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The feature works as intended, but its documentation can mislead SDK users about deadline timing and who may delete an expired document. This is mergeable with prompt documentation correction.

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Inline comments:
In `@book/src/data-model/contract-moderation.md`:
- Line 119: The expiry wording must apply only to moderator and contract-owner
deletion, while preserving the document owner’s normal canBeDeleted rules after
expiry. In book/src/data-model/contract-moderation.md lines 119-119, revise the
statement to name moderator and contract-owner deletion; in
packages/rs-platform-version/src/version/v14.rs lines 432-436, replace the
unrestricted “nobody removes it” wording with equivalent wording that excludes
document-owner deletion from the expiry restriction.

In `@packages/js-evo-sdk/src/contracts/facade.ts`:
- Around line 147-149: The deletion documentation must state that the deadline
is inclusive: refusal begins only after block time exceeds the configured
window, so deletion remains allowed at the exact deadline. Update the wording at
packages/js-evo-sdk/src/contracts/facade.ts lines 147-149 and
packages/wasm-sdk/src/state_transitions/contract.rs lines 317-319 to describe
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• book/src/data-model/contract-moderation.md
• book/src/error-handling/error-codes.md
• packages/js-evo-sdk/src/contracts/facade.ts
• packages/rs-dpp/schema/meta_schemas/document/v3/document-meta.json
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/accessors/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/accessors/v2/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/class_methods/try_from_schema/common/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/class_methods/try_from_schema/v3/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/class_methods/try_from_schema/v3/moderators_delete_tests.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/methods/validate_update/v1/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/v2/accessors.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/document_type/v2/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/errors/consensus/codes.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/errors/consensus/state/contract_moderation/document_moderation_window_elapsed_error.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/errors/consensus/state/contract_moderation/mod.rs
• packages/rs-dpp/src/errors/consensus/state/state_error.rs
• packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/state_transitions/contract_user_moderation/state/v0/mod.rs
• packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/state_transitions/contract_user_moderation/tests.rs
• packages/rs-platform-version/src/version/v14.rs
• packages/wasm-dpp/src/errors/consensus/consensus_error.rs
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