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Closes #192

If you pass a OrderQuoteResponse's appData straight into OrderSigningUtils.signOrder(), the document reaches the EIP-712 encoder and you get this:

Error: invalid hex string (argument="value", value="{\"appCode\":\"Decentralized CoW\",\"environment\":\"prod\",\"metadata\":{\"orderClass\":{\"orderClass\":\"limit\"},\"quote\":{\"slippageBips\":\"50\"}},\"version\":\"0.11.0\"}", code=INVALID_ARGUMENT, version=bytes/5.7.0)

Which tells you nothing about what you did wrong. appData in the order struct is a bytes32, so it can only hold the hash - but nothing says so until ethers chokes on it deep in the signing path.

This validates order.appData up front and throws a CowError that actually names the problem and points at getAppDataInfo().

why it doesn't just hash it for you

The issue suggests the SDK should "hash the correct parts" itself. I went the other way on purpose, and I'm happy to be overruled.

The canonical appDataHex is keccak256 over the deterministically stringified document - that's what stringifyDeterministic in @cowprotocol/app-data exists for. Hashing whatever string the caller happened to pass would produce a perfectly valid-looking bytes32 that doesn't match the document registered with the orderbook. You'd sign an order pointing at appData nobody can resolve, and you'd find out much later than you'd like.

Failing fast at the call site felt like the safer default for something that ends up in a signature. If you'd rather it auto-hash via getAppDataInfo() I'll happily switch it, it's a small change - it just means order-signing takes a dependency on app-data, which it currently doesn't have.

receipts

Guard removed, so you get today's behaviour - note it reproduces the exact error from the issue:

$ pnpm test
Error: invalid hex string (argument="value", value="{\"appCode\":\"Decentralized CoW\",...}", code=INVALID_ARGUMENT, version=bytes/5.7.0)
  reason: 'invalid hex string',
  code: 'INVALID_ARGUMENT',

✕ should reject a full appData document instead of surfacing an opaque hex error
✕ should reject an appData hash that is not 32 bytes

Tests: 2 failed, 13 passed, 15 total

With the guard:

$ pnpm test
✓ should reject a full appData document instead of surfacing an opaque hex error (7 ms)
✓ should reject an appData hash that is not 32 bytes (1 ms)

Test Suites: 1 passed, 1 total
Tests:       15 passed, 15 total

Both new tests run across all three adapters (ethers v5, ethers v6, viem) via the existing createAdapters() setup.

risk

Low-ish, but it's a new throw on a public method. Anything that was passing a non-bytes32 appData was already failing, just with a worse message - so no working call site changes behaviour. Only thing that'd break is someone relying on the ethers error type/message, which seems unlikely.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Added validation to ensure order app data is a valid 0x-prefixed bytes32 hash before signing.
    • Clear errors are now shown when full documents or incorrectly sized values are provided.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for invalid app data formats across supported signing adapters.

Passing a QuoteResponse's appData straight into signOrder currently
reaches the EIP-712 encoder and dies with 'invalid hex string
(argument="value", ... code=INVALID_ARGUMENT)', which says nothing
about what was actually wrong.

Validate order.appData is a bytes32 hash up front and throw a CowError
that names the problem and points at getAppDataInfo().

Deliberately not hashing the document for the caller: the canonical hash
is keccak256 over the deterministically stringified document and it has
to match what was registered with the orderbook. Hashing an arbitrary
string here would produce a valid-looking hash that resolves to nothing.
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The order-signing utilities now validate order.appData as a 0x-prefixed 32-byte hash before signing. Tests cover rejection of full JSON documents and shorter hexadecimal values across configured adapters.

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appData validation

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Bytes32 appData validation
packages/order-signing/src/utils.ts
assertAppDataHash validates the appData format and throws a descriptive CowError for invalid values.
Signing integration and rejection tests
packages/order-signing/src/utils.ts, packages/order-signing/tests/orderSigningUtils.test.ts
signOrder validates order.appData before the signing flow. Tests verify rejection of full JSON documents and short hexadecimal values across adapters.

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The change makes invalid appData fail with a clear error before signing. A small follow-up could assert the specific CowError type in tests, but no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR rejects document appData but does not hash stringified appData as required by issue #192. Update signOrder to derive the canonical appData hash from documents, or revise issue #192 to accept validation-only behavior.
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Per review - a generic Error with the same text would have passed.
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OrderSigningUtils doesn't accept appDataHash and stringified appData

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