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Why

Address #829, which documents the failures this fixes, the complete rippled fee model for all 81 transaction types, and worked examples for every fee shape.

What changed

One method taking an Immutables params object, so a future amendment adds a defaulted field rather than a new method:

ComputedNetworkFees computeFee(FeeParams params);

Everything derivable comes off the transaction — its type and therefore any surcharge, an EscrowFinish's fulfillment, a Batch's inners and the accounts that must sign it. What remains is what cannot be derived, because the fee is signed over and the signatures do not exist yet:

FeeResult   feeResult();
Transaction transaction();

UnsignedInteger signersCount()               = 0;   // this account multi-signs
UnsignedInteger sponsorSignersCount()        = 0;   // its sponsor multi-signs
UnsignedInteger counterpartySignatureCount() = 1;   // LoanSet
UnsignedInteger loanPaymentFeeIncrements()   = 1;   // LoanPay, 1-20
Optional<XrpCurrencyAmount> ownerReserve();         // AccountDelete, AMMCreate; not on FeeResult
Map<Address, UnsignedInteger> signaturesPerBatchSigner() = {};   // Batch, priced before signing

FeeParams' @Value.Check rejects any value that would otherwise be silently ignored: a field that does not apply to the transaction type, a signature count outside its valid range (0–32 for the account/sponsor signer counts, 1–32 for counterpartySignatureCount and per-batch-signer counts, all capped at the signer-list limit), a missing or superfluous ownerReserve, a signaturesPerBatchSigner entry for an account that need not sign, and that map at all once BatchSigners are present.

Batch.requiredSigners() is new, deriving the accounts that must sign from the inner transactions exactly as Batch::preflightSigValidated does — each inner's initiator (its Delegate or Account), its Sponsor when the inner carries a SponsorSignature, and (forward-compat, currently gated off by rippled's kDisabledTxTypes) a LoanSet's Counterparty. It lives on Batch rather than in FeeUtils because it is a property of a Batch rather than of fees — anyone assembling one needs to know who to circulate it to.

API changes

Method Change
computeNetworkFees(FeeResult) unchanged
computeMultisigNetworkFees deprecated — cannot be accurate without changing its signature
EscrowFinish.computeFee deprecated — shipped since v5.1.0, so kept along with its tests
computeBatchFee (both overloads) removed
computeLoanSetNetworkFees removed
computeConfidentialMptNetworkFees removed
computeSponsorshipTransferNetworkFees removed

The four removals are in v6.1.0-rc.2 but not in any stable release — v6.0.0 contains only computeNetworkFees(FeeResult) and computeMultisigNetworkFees — so this is the last point at which removing them is free rather than a deprecation cycle.

The trade-off worth reviewing

Fees are derived from the transaction, and Transaction.fee() is mandatory, so callers build with a placeholder fee, compute, then reprice through the generated withFee:

final Batch unpricedBatch = Batch.builder()
  .account(alice)
  .fee(XrpCurrencyAmount.ofDrops(0))
  .sequence(aliceSequence)
  .signingPublicKey(alicePublicKey)
  .addRawTransactions(
    RawTransactionWrapper.of(paymentFromBob),
    RawTransactionWrapper.of(paymentFromCarol))
  .build();

final Batch batch = ImmutableBatch.copyOf(unpricedBatch).withFee(
  FeeUtils.computeFee(FeeParams.builder()
    .feeResult(feeResult)
    .transaction(unpricedBatch)
    .build()).recommendedFee()
);

That second construction is the cost of passing the transaction instead of a set of counts, and it is visible in all 24 migrated call sites. Most sites pass nothing beyond feeResult and transaction.

An alternative is to define a separate method named computeAndApplyFee so that we can do something like

Batch batch = FeeUtils.computeAndApplyFee(
  FeeParams.builder().feeResult(feeResult).transaction(unpricedBatch).build());

Testing

FeeUtilsTest covers computeFee with tests built from real transactions rather than mocks — every row of the fee model in #829 plus each @Value.Check rejection. 24 call sites migrated across BatchTransactionIT, LendingProtocolIT, AbstractConfidentialMptIT and SponsorshipIT.

Deliberately out of scope

SetRegularKey's free case is charged the generic fee — a harmless overpay, since detecting it needs the AccountRoot's lsfPasswordSpent flag. LoanPay increments are supplied rather than derived, since deriving them needs the Loan, LoanBroker and Vault objects.

The output half of #648 is untouched. This PR makes the fee calculation impossible to call wrongly; that issue is about making it impossible to skip, which needs a TransactionFee wrapper so a hand-computed XrpCurrencyAmount cannot be set on a Batch at all. Worth noting it is smaller than it reads — only the ~11 types with a non-generic fee shape need it, and it can start with Batch alone.

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The refactor replaces several fee-computation methods with a single computeFee(FeeParams) that derives most terms from the transaction. The design is coherent and well-tested for every case exercised in FeeUtilsComputeFeeTest, but there's a real gap in how a LoanPay's fee-increment multiplier is (or isn't) applied when LoanPay appears as a Batch inner transaction — worth confirming before merge, since it contradicts the method's own javadoc.

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Fulfillment surcharge calculation needs verification—potential one-fee-unit underpayment near byte boundaries.

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Unified transaction fee calculation

Layer / File(s) Summary
FeeParams contract and validation
xrpl4j-core/src/main/java/org/xrpl/xrpl4j/model/client/fees/FeeParams.java
Adds validated inputs for signature counts, lending increments, owner reserves, and Batch signer forecasts.
Batch signer derivation
xrpl4j-core/src/main/java/org/xrpl/xrpl4j/model/transactions/Batch.java, xrpl4j-core/src/test/java/org/xrpl/xrpl4j/model/transactions/BatchTest.java
Derives Batch signers from initiators, delegates, sponsors with signatures, and LoanSet counterparties.
Fee dispatch and surcharge rules
xrpl4j-core/src/main/java/org/xrpl/xrpl4j/model/client/fees/FeeUtils.java, xrpl4j-core/src/main/java/org/xrpl/xrpl4j/model/transactions/EscrowFinish.java
Replaces specialized fee methods with FeeUtils.computeFee(FeeParams) and applies transaction-specific pricing rules.
Fee calculation tests
xrpl4j-core/src/test/java/org/xrpl/xrpl4j/model/client/fees/FeeUtilsTest.java
Adds coverage for fee scaling, surcharges, lending, owner reserves, batches, confidential transactions, and validation failures.
Integration test migration
xrpl4j-integration-tests/src/test/java/org/xrpl/xrpl4j/tests/*IT.java
Updates confidential, Batch, lending, and sponsorship helpers to calculate fees before signing.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 77e8f

Batch fee calculation may charge incorrect amounts for LoanSet and LoanPay transactions, including possible overcharging or undercharging. The PR should not merge until these cases are corrected or explicitly accepted by the owner.

Suggested reviewers: cybele-ripple, patel-raj11, sappenin

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Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the unified fee API, validation rules, API removals, migrations, testing, and out-of-scope items.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The description references issue #829 and clearly connects the implementation to the documented fee-model failures and requirements.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes match the stated objective. The description explicitly identifies SetRegularKey handling, LoanPay increment derivation, and issue #648 output changes as out of scope.
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In `@xrpl4j-core/src/main/java/org/xrpl/xrpl4j/model/client/fees/FeeParams.java`:
- Around line 286-296: Require a positive signature count for counterparty and
batch-signer entries before fee calculation. Update the validation around
counterpartySignatureCount and each value in signaturesPerBatchSigner, including
the loop in FeeParams validation, to call the existing checkAtLeastOneSignature
helper in addition to checkSignatureCount, while preserving the required-signer
membership check.

In `@xrpl4j-core/src/main/java/org/xrpl/xrpl4j/model/client/fees/FeeUtils.java`:
- Around line 315-329: Update fulfillmentUnits to base the surcharge calculation
on the serialized Fulfillment field size used by rippled, rather than the
decoded preimage length; preserve the existing PreimageSha256Fulfillment
validation and zero-fulfillment behavior.

In `@xrpl4j-core/src/main/java/org/xrpl/xrpl4j/model/transactions/Batch.java`:
- Around line 147-148: Update the Javadoc describing BatchSigners near
requiredSigners() so it states that every required signer must be present, while
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This is a well-executed, heavily-tested refactor (FeeParams + FeeUtils.computeFee, Batch.requiredSigners(), and 26 migrated call sites). I traced the fee-unit arithmetic in FeeUtils.computeFee/computeFeeForBatch against every new FeeUtilsTest case (signature counts, EscrowFinish fulfillment surcharge, LoanSet/LoanPay, confidential MPT multiplier, owner-reserve replacement, and Batch signature derivation) and it is internally consistent; I also verified that every migrated call site (BatchTransactionIT, LendingProtocolIT, SponsorshipIT, AbstractConfidentialMptIT) signs the repriced transaction (via withFee) rather than the placeholder-fee one. I did not find a correctness or security bug in the changed lines. The one thing worth a second look before merging is a factual claim about rippled internals baked into permanent public Javadoc.

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This is a large, carefully-executed refactor of fee computation into a single FeeParams/computeFee(FeeParams) API. I cross-checked the core arithmetic in FeeUtils.computeFee/computeFeeForBatch/surchargeUnits/batchSignatureCount against the 34 new unit tests case-by-case (generic, EscrowFinish, LoanSet/LoanPay, owner-reserve, and all Batch scenarios including mixed confidential+regular inners and multi-sig batch signers) and the formulas are internally consistent and match the documented rippled fee model. Batch.requiredSigners() correctly generalizes the old inline signer-derivation logic (adding Sponsor and keeping LoanSet Counterparty) and is reused consistently by both the BatchSigners completeness check and fee pricing. FeeParams' @Value.Check rejections (pseudo-tx, unknown type, signer-list limit, field-not-applicable, owner-reserve presence, signaturesPerBatchSigner validity) are all exercised by tests and look correctly implemented. I did not find a concrete correctness bug in the added/changed lines with high confidence; the one item below is a verification suggestion rather than an assertion of a defect.

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230-233: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not double-charge the LoanSet counterparty in a Batch.

Batch.requiredSigners() includes the LoanSet counterparty, so batchSignatureCount(...) already charges that BatchSigner. The inner loop then calls surchargeUnits(...), which adds the default counterpartySignatureCount() again. This can charge one extra base fee for an inner LoanSet.

Skip the LOAN_SET counterparty surcharge for inner transactions. Add a regression test for a Batch containing a LoanSet.

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In `@xrpl4j-core/src/main/java/org/xrpl/xrpl4j/model/client/fees/FeeUtils.java`
around lines 230 - 233, Update the inner-transaction fee calculation in FeeUtils
so a Batch containing a LoanSet does not add the LoanSet counterparty surcharge
twice; bypass the LOAN_SET counterparty surcharge when computing surchargeUnits
for inner transactions while preserving other surcharge behavior, and add a
regression test covering Batch with LoanSet.

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In `@xrpl4j-core/src/main/java/org/xrpl/xrpl4j/model/client/fees/FeeUtils.java`:
- Around line 230-233: Update the inner-transaction fee calculation in FeeUtils
so a Batch containing a LoanSet does not add the LoanSet counterparty surcharge
twice; bypass the LOAN_SET counterparty surcharge when computing surchargeUnits
for inner transactions while preserving other surcharge behavior, and add a
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This is a substantial, well-tested refactor of fee computation (FeeUtils.computeFee(FeeParams)) that replaces several narrow, deprecated/removed fee-calculation methods with a single transaction-driven API. The design and most of the arithmetic check out against the 34 unit tests added. However, I found a likely regression in the new Batch.requiredSigners() method: it derives per-inner required signers from delegate()/account() and sponsor(), but drops the LoanSet counterparty-signer rule that existed in the code it replaces (and that a now-deleted test, testBatchSignerRequiredForLoanSetCounterparty, specifically covered). Since this method is now the single source of truth for both checkBatchSigners() validation and Batch fee computation, this silently weakens signer validation and can under-price/under-require signatures for a Batch containing a LoanSet inner with a counterparty. Relatedly, FeeParams.check() only allows a non-default counterpartySignatureCount()/loanPaymentFeeIncrements() when the outer transaction is exactly LoanSet/LoanPay, leaving no way to correctly price a Batch whose inner LoanSet/LoanPay needs a non-default value.

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In `@xrpl4j-core/src/main/java/org/xrpl/xrpl4j/model/client/fees/FeeUtils.java`:
- Line 232: Update the fee calculation around surchargeUnits so LOAN_PAY Batch
inners add their loanPaymentFeeIncrements to the standalone inner fee,
preserving the existing base-fee contribution and behavior for other transaction
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@kuan121 kuan121 changed the title [WIP] Transaction fee calculation refactoring Transaction fee calculation refactoring Aug 31, 2026

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