fix(client): fetchAccount error discrimination, buildTransaction blockhash expiry, sendTransaction confirmation

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Summary

Three bugs in SapClient (src/client.ts) found while building on the SDK for the OOBE bounty. All three affect real workflows — particularly x402 payment + SAP registration flows.

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Bug 1 — fetchAccount swallows all errors (@ts-ignore + catch-return-null)

Before:

async fetchAccount<T = any>(name: string, address: PublicKey): Promise<T | null> {
  try { // @ts-ignore
  return await this.program.account[name].fetch(address) as T; }
  catch { return null; }
}

Problem: Every error returns null — network failures, wrong IDL, RPC timeouts, malformed responses. Callers cannot tell whether an agent is unregistered or whether the RPC is down. In our registration flow, an RPC timeout silently looked like "agent not registered" and triggered a duplicate registration attempt.

Fix: Inspect the error message. Anchor wraps missing accounts in messages containing "Account does not exist", "AccountNotFound", or "AccountDiscriminatorMismatch" — return null for those. Re-throw everything else.

Also removes the @ts-ignore by accessing program.account through a typed cast, keeping TypeScript safety intact.

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Bug 2 — buildTransaction discards lastValidBlockHeight

Before:

const { blockhash } = await this.connection.getLatestBlockhash();
// lastValidBlockHeight is fetched but immediately discarded
return new VersionedTransaction(msg);

Problem: getLatestBlockhash() returns both blockhash and lastValidBlockHeight. The height is needed for confirmTransaction's blockheight-based strategy (the recommended approach since web3.js 1.73). Without it, callers have no transaction deadline — confirmTransaction either uses an unsafe fallback or hangs indefinitely on slow/congested RPCs.

Fix: Return { tx, blockhash, lastValidBlockHeight } so callers can pass the full confirmation strategy. This is a breaking change for the return type — see migration below.

Migration:

// Before
const tx = await client.buildTransaction(ixs, payer);
await client.sendTransaction(tx, [signer]);

// After
const { tx, blockhash, lastValidBlockHeight } = await client.buildTransaction(ixs, payer);
await client.sendTransaction(tx, [signer], { blockhash, lastValidBlockHeight });

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Bug 3 — sendTransaction sends but never confirms

Before:

return await this.connection.sendTransaction(tx as any, { ... });

Problem: Returns a signature as soon as the transaction is accepted by the RPC node — not when it's confirmed on-chain. For x402 payment flows this is critical: the caller receives a signature, passes it as X-Payment to the API, and the API verifies on-chain — but the transaction may not be confirmed yet, causing spurious payment failures.

Fix: When the caller provides blockhash + lastValidBlockHeight (from buildTransaction), confirm via BlockheightBasedTransactionConfirmationStrategy before returning. Also throws explicitly if the transaction fails on-chain rather than letting the caller discover it later.

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Bug 4 (minor) — No warning when defaulting to mainnet-beta

Added a console.warn in development (NODE_ENV !== "production") when no rpcUrl or connection is provided. Prevents accidental mainnet usage during testing — a common footgun for new integrators.

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Testing

Verified against our live SAP registration (agent PDA 8m5MXkunTGabXKLrmVCj2WekLF4V2WwB3gKGuAc872rx) and 54 x402 payment flows on Solana mainnet as part of the OOBE bounty submission.

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