feat(platform)!: a reason on contract bans and suspensions

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Issue being fixed or feature implemented

Follow-up to #4830. A banlist entry was an empty item and a suspension entry only its until, so nothing on chain said why an identity was barred. Every ban and every suspension now carries a reason, stored with the entry, so whoever reads the list reads why.

The reason has room for a ban code. Contracts declare no ban codes today, so the code is reserved: it is expected to be None, and a moderator may still put any value there, which nothing checks.

What was done?

The reason (dpp::data_contract::config::moderation::ContractModerationReason)

pub struct ContractModerationReason {
    pub code: Option<u16>, // reserved for contract-declared ban codes, never checked
    pub text: String,      // free UTF-8, at most 1024 bytes, may be empty
}

• SystemLimits::max_contract_moderation_reason_length = 1024 (bytes of UTF-8, not characters).
• ContractUserModerationAction::Ban and ::Suspend gain a required reason. It is part of the signable bytes. Edited in place at protocol version 14: the transition is in no release (it merged with feat(platform)!: contract moderation with a banlist and a suspension list #4830 after 4.2.0-beta.2).
• Basic structure validation v0 refuses a text over the limit, unpaid, with the new ContractModerationReasonTooLongError (BasicError 10903, appended, discriminant 191 pinned). 10902 stays reserved as the comment in codes.rs says. The code is deliberately not validated.

Storage (rs-drive/src/drive/contract/moderation)

• Banlist entry value: the reason. Suspension entry value: until (u64 BE) then the reason.
• A reason is a tag byte (0 no code, 1 a code), the code as a big-endian u16 when tagged, then the text as UTF-8 to the end of the value (types.rs: encode_ban, decode_ban, encode_suspension, decode_suspension, all strict).
• The moderator pays the reason byte for byte and is refunded when the entry is removed.
• Fee estimation: an estimate prices a suspend that replaces an entry as a fresh insert of the whole entry. GroveDB's average-case replace assumes an item keeps its size, so it priced no storage for a longer reason (0 estimated against 27.7M credits applied for a 1 KB one), and a balance in between passed the fee validation and then failed the balance change with an internal error. The entries a write walks past, and the one a delete removes, are estimated at a typical reason (128 bytes of text), not at the longest.
• A value without the reason's tag byte (an empty banlist item, a bare until, as feat(platform)!: contract moderation with a banlist and a suspension list #4830 wrote them) reads as the empty reason rather than as corrupted state.
• structure.rs describes the new values, grovedb-structure.json regenerated (on top of feat(drive): describe the element flags of the GroveDB structure #4848).

Status and proofs

• ContractModerationStatus { ban: Option<ContractBan>, suspension: Option<ContractSuspension> } replaces the banned / suspended_until fields, which become the methods banned() and suspended_until(). ContractModerationListStatus carries the same entries, and ContractModerationListStatuses gains ban() and suspension(). None of these is Copy any more, so the transition's and the action's action() accessors return a reference.
• The proof of a moderation transition's execution now also checks that the stored reason (and until) is the one the transition gave.

Clients

• Proto: a top-level ContractModerationReason { optional uint32 code; string text }, ban_reason = 4 and suspension_reason = 5 on the status, reason = 3 on an entry. gRPC clients regenerated.
• drive-proof-verifier: reason_from_response refuses an entry without a reason and a code that does not fit a u16. It does not bound the text: the limit belongs to a protocol version, and the proved path reads whatever the proof holds.
• rs-sdk: ban_contract_user(.., identity_id, reason, ..) and suspend_contract_user(.., until, reason, ..).
• wasm-dpp2: reason?: { code?, text } on the transition options, required for a ban and a suspend and refused beside an unban or an unsuspend (like until), a reason getter (always with code, null when there is none, the shape toJSON() gives it), and banReason / suspensionReason on VerifiedContractModerationListStatuses. wasm-sdk: the same option on contractBanUser / contractSuspendUser, the reasons on the moderation result, the status and the entries page. js-evo-sdk passes the options through; docs updated.
• Book: data-model/contract-moderation.md and the error code table.

Things a reviewer should know

• A suspend that replaces an entry is still a batch_replace when applied, and the entry may now change size. A longer replacement by another moderator merges the flags the way a document that changes hands does (MergingOwnersStrategy::UseTheirs in GroveDB's update_element_flags): the replacing moderator pays for the added bytes and becomes the entry's owner. A shorter or an equally long one stays the first moderator's, who is refunded the removed bytes at once and the rest on removal. All three cases are pinned by tests, and the structure's flags description says so.
• The refusals a barred identity receives (41107, 41108, 41114) do not repeat the reason. The status query does.
• Swift and Kotlin have no moderation surface yet, so nothing to change there.

How Has This Been Tested?

Targeted suites of every crate touched, locally on macOS:

• cargo test -p dpp --all-features --lib -- moderation basic_error_tail (31) and -- json_convertible (371): the reason's JSON shape, its byte-counted limit, the transition round trip through bytes / JSON / value, the reason being signed, the frozen BasicError discriminant.
• cargo test -p drive --lib -- structure:: moderation (37): entry encoding and malformed entries, ban / suspend / replace with fetch, proof and verify agreeing, estimate vs applied storage, a ban charged by the length of its reason up to the limit, the same-size, the longer and the shorter replacement by another moderator, a replacement never estimated below what it costs (0 to 1024 bytes and back), entries from before reasons reading as the empty reason, structure conformance.
• cargo test -p drive-proof-verifier --lib moderation (17): unproved status and entries, a missing reason and a code past u16 refused.
• cargo test -p drive-abci --lib moderation (39): the pipeline tests with reasons, a reason over the limit refused unpaid with 10903 for a ban and a suspend, any code accepted and stored, an empty reason, the execution proof showing the reason, both query handlers on the wire and proved.
• wasm-dpp2 ContractUserModerationTransition.spec.ts (15, rebuilt after the last change) and js-evo-sdk facades/contracts.spec.ts (20) after building wasm-dpp2, wasm-sdk and js-evo-sdk; eslint on the changed TypeScript.
• cargo clippy on dpp, drive, drive-abci, drive-proof-verifier, dash-sdk (all targets) and on wasm-dpp, wasm-dpp2, wasm-sdk (wasm32); cargo fmt --all -- --check; cargo check of rs-dapi, rs-dapi-client, rs-sdk-ffi, strategy-tests.

The full drive-abci and strategy suites were not run locally.

Breaking Changes

Consensus-breaking against the current v4.2-dev only: the ContractUserModeration transition (type 24) and the stored banlist and suspension entries change shape. Neither is in a release, and both stay gated at protocol version 14.

API: ContractModerationStatus fields become ban / suspension (with banned() / suspended_until() methods), Drive::add_contract_ban and Drive::add_contract_suspension take the reason, the rs-sdk ban_contract_user / suspend_contract_user take the reason, and the JS banUser / suspendUser options need reason.

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Contract moderation bans and suspensions now carry structured reasons. The change updates validation, storage encoding, state transitions, queries, proofs, protobuf responses, SDKs, WebAssembly bindings, and tests. Reason text is limited to 1024 UTF-8 bytes.

Changes

Contract moderation reason flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reason contracts and validation packages/rs-dpp/src/data_contract/config/moderation/*, packages/rs-dpp/src/state_transition/..., packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/...	Adds ContractModerationReason, structured ban and suspension entries, reason-bearing actions, and error 10903 for oversized reason text.
Storage encoding and operation wiring packages/rs-drive/src/drive/contract/moderation/*, packages/rs-drive/src/util/batch/..., packages/rs-drive/src/state_transition_action/...	Stores reasons in ban and suspension values, decodes them into moderation status, passes them through drive operations, and updates storage estimates.
Queries, proofs, and wire responses packages/rs-drive-abci/src/query/..., packages/rs-drive/src/verify/..., packages/rs-drive-proof-verifier/src/..., packages/dapi-grpc/protos/..., packages/dapi-grpc/clients/...	Returns reasons in moderation status and entries, validates reasons during proof conversion, and adds protobuf fields and generated client support.
SDK and WebAssembly surfaces packages/rs-sdk/..., packages/wasm-dpp2/..., packages/wasm-sdk/...	Requires reasons for ban and suspend inputs and exposes ban, suspension, and entry reasons in JavaScript and TypeScript results.
Documentation and tests book/src/..., packages/rs-drive/.../tests.rs, packages/wasm-dpp2/tests/..., packages/js-evo-sdk/tests/...	Documents reason limits and storage formats and covers serialization, validation, storage billing, proof conversion, and client behavior.

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Some JavaScript callers can construct moderation requests that fail only at runtime, and an unproved node response can expose an oversized reason. These bounded issues should be corrected before merge.

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In `@packages/js-evo-sdk/src/contracts/facade.ts`:
- Around line 114-116: Define a moderation options type with required reason and
use it for the banUser and suspendUser facade methods, while retaining
wasm.ContractModerationOptions for unbanUser and unsuspendUser. Ensure
TypeScript rejects calls to the banning and suspending methods that omit reason.

In `@packages/js-evo-sdk/tests/unit/facades/contracts.spec.ts`:
- Line 255: Add an assertion for moderated.suspensionReason alongside the
existing banReason assertion in the transition loop, comparing it with
result.suspensionReason when present and undefined otherwise. Keep the existing
banReason assertion unchanged.
- Line 247: Update the moderation test options setup to use action-specific
objects instead of one shared options object. In the stubs or calls for banUser,
suspendUser, unbanUser, and unsuspendUser, include reason only for banUser and
suspendUser, and include until only for suspendUser, matching the WASM
entrypoint validation.

In `@packages/rs-drive-proof-verifier/src/types/contract_moderation.rs`:
- Around line 138-152: Update reason_from_response to validate the constructed
ContractModerationReason before returning it, using the existing validation and
converting oversized UTF-8 text failures into Error::ResponseDecodeError.
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