feat: add Custom Token Exchange support (RFC 8693)

Add comprehensive support for Custom Token Exchange via RFC 8693, enabling
token exchange using Auth0 Token Exchange Profiles. This implementation has
been validated against auth0-auth-js for security and behavioral alignment.

## Core Features

- RFC 8693 OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange implementation
- Token exchange via subject_token and subject_token_type
- Support for optional audience, scope, and requested_token_type
- Extra parameters support for custom profile/Action data
- HTTP Basic authentication (client_secret_basic)
- Configurable HTTP timeout (default 10 seconds) with explicit None check

## Security Improvements

- Strict subject token validation (fail-fast on whitespace/Bearer prefix)
- Case-insensitive reserved OAuth parameter denylist
- Added subject_issuer to reserved parameters (RFC 8693)
- DoS protection with 20-item array limit for extra parameters
- Client credential requirement (confidential client only)
- List item string conversion for extra parameters
- Validated against auth0-auth-js implementation

## API Changes (Non-Breaking)

- Add ApiClient.get_token_by_exchange_profile() method
- Add GetTokenByExchangeProfileError exception class
- Add timeout parameter to ApiClientOptions (default: 10.0 seconds)
- Export GetTokenByExchangeProfileError in __init__.py

## Code Improvements

- Extracted _apply_extra() helper for parameter validation
- Case-insensitive reserved parameter checking
- Fixed timeout handling with explicit None check (prevents 0.0 override)
- Simplified verify_request token validation logic
- Collapsed subject_token validation to avoid redundant strip() calls
- Applied ValueError (vs Exception) for JSON parsing consistency
- Module-level constants for token exchange parameters
- Used last_form() helper throughout tests for cleaner code

## Documentation

- Added Custom Token Exchange section to README
- Documented confidential client requirement with link
- Added security warnings for extra parameters
- Clarified reserved namespace guidance (IETF/vendor URNs)
- Fixed misleading audience parameter documentation
- Added note about token targeting without explicit audience
- Documented HTTP Basic authentication explicitly
- Enhanced examples with optional parameters (scope, requested_token_type)
- Added array limit note (20 values per key)
- Updated ApiClientOptions docstring for both methods

## Testing

- Added 88 comprehensive tests (86 existing + 2 new)
- 85% code coverage maintained
- Added freezegun for deterministic time testing
- Parameterized tests with descriptive ids for better CI output
- Pytest fixtures (api_client_confidential, mock_discovery, last_form)
- Validation short-circuit test ensures fail-fast behavior
- Test for MAX_ARRAY_VALUES_PER_KEY (DoS protection)
- Test for case-insensitive reserved parameter checking
- Used last_form() helper to eliminate duplicate parsing code
- All tests passing with ruff linting checks

## Dependencies

- Added freezegun>=1.5.5 to dev dependencies for deterministic time testing
- Added freezegun>=1.5.5 to requirements.txt for SCA scanning
- Poetry lockfile consolidated duplicate coverage entries (7.10.7 for Python 3.9-3.12)
- Lockfile generated with Poetry 2.1.2 for multi-Python version support

## Validation

Implementation validated line-by-line against auth0-auth-js:
- Subject token validation matches JS SDK behavior
- Array size limits align (MAX_ARRAY_VALUES_PER_KEY = 20)
- Reserved parameters match PARAM_DENYLIST (case-insensitive)
- Added subject_issuer per RFC 8693
- Client authentication method (client_secret_basic)
- Error handling and response parsing
- Intentional improvements: fail-fast reserved params, expires_in return

Related: https://github.com/auth0/auth0-auth-js

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: btiernay

.gitignore

@@ -22,4 +22,7 @@ setup.py
 test.py
 test-script.py
 .coverage
-coverage.xml
+coverage.xml
+
+# IDE
+.idea/

README.md

@@ -113,6 +113,74 @@ asyncio.run(main())
 
 More info https://auth0.com/docs/secure/tokens/token-vault
 
+### 5. Custom Token Exchange (Early Access)
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> This feature is currently available in [Early Access](https://auth0.com/docs/troubleshoot/product-lifecycle/product-release-stages#early-access) for Enterprise customers. Please reach out to Auth0 support to get it enabled for your tenant.
+
+This feature requires a [confidential client](https://auth0.com/docs/get-started/applications/confidential-and-public-applications#confidential-applications) (both `client_id` and `client_secret` must be configured).
+
+Custom Token Exchange allows you to exchange a subject token for Auth0 tokens using RFC 8693. This is useful for:
+- Getting Auth0 tokens for another audience
+- Integrating external identity providers
+- Migrating to Auth0
+
+```python
+import asyncio
+
+from auth0_api_python import ApiClient, ApiClientOptions
+
+async def main():
+    api_client = ApiClient(ApiClientOptions(
+        domain="<AUTH0_DOMAIN>",
+        audience="<AUTH0_AUDIENCE>",
+        client_id="<AUTH0_CLIENT_ID>",
+        client_secret="<AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET>",
+    ))
+
+    subject_token = "..."  # Token from your legacy system or external source
+
+    result = await api_client.get_token_by_exchange_profile(
+        subject_token=subject_token,
+        subject_token_type="urn:example:subject-token",
+        audience="https://api.example.com",  # Optional - omit if your Action or tenant configuration sets the audience
+        scope="openid profile email",  # Optional
+        requested_token_type="urn:ietf:params:oauth:token-type:access_token"  # Optional
+    )
+
+    # Result contains access_token, expires_in, expires_at, and optionally id_token, refresh_token
+
+asyncio.run(main())
+```
+
+**Important:**
+- Client authentication is sent via HTTP Basic (`client_id`/`client_secret`), not in the form body.
+- The `subject_token_type` must match a Token Exchange Profile configured in Auth0. This URI identifies which profile will process the exchange and **must not** use IETF namespaces or vendor-controlled URNs; do not use Auth0/Okta namespaces. See the [Custom Token Exchange documentation](https://auth0.com/docs/authenticate/custom-token-exchange) for naming guidance.
+- If neither an explicit `audience` nor tenant/Action logic sets it, you may receive a token not targeted at your API.
+
+#### Additional Parameters
+
+You can pass additional parameters for your Token Exchange Profile or Actions via the `extra` parameter. These are sent as form fields to Auth0 and may be inspected by Actions:
+
+```python
+result = await api_client.get_token_by_exchange_profile(
+    subject_token=subject_token,
+    subject_token_type="urn:example:subject-token",
+    audience="https://api.example.com",
+    extra={
+        "device_id": "device-12345",
+        "session_id": "sess-abc"
+    }
+)
+```
+
+> [!WARNING]
+> Extra parameters are sent as form fields and may appear in logs. Do not include secrets or sensitive data. Reserved OAuth parameter names (like `grant_type`, `client_id`, `scope`) cannot be used and will raise an error. Arrays are supported but limited to 20 values per key to prevent abuse.
+
+**Related SDKs:** [auth0-auth-js](https://github.com/auth0/auth0-auth-js) (JavaScript/TypeScript)
+
+More info: https://auth0.com/docs/authenticate/custom-token-exchange
+
 #### Requiring Additional Claims
 
 If your application demands extra claims, specify them with `required_claims`:
@@ -126,7 +194,7 @@ decoded_and_verified_token = await api_client.verify_access_token(
 
 If the token lacks `my_custom_claim` or fails any standard check (issuer mismatch, expired token, invalid signature), the method raises a `VerifyAccessTokenError`.
 
-### 5. DPoP Authentication
+### 6. DPoP Authentication
 
 > [!NOTE]  
 > This feature is currently available in [Early Access](https://auth0.com/docs/troubleshoot/product-lifecycle/product-release-stages#early-access). Please reach out to Auth0 support to get it enabled for your tenant.

poetry.lock

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ pytest-asyncio = "^0.25.3"
 pytest-mock = "^3.15.1"
 pytest-httpx = "^0.35.0"
 ruff = ">=0.1,<0.15"
+freezegun = "^1.5.5"
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 addopts = "--cov=src --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered --cov-report=xml"

pyproject.toml

@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ pytest-cov>=4.0
 pytest-asyncio>=0.25.3
 pytest-mock>=3.15.1
 pytest-httpx>=0.35.0
+freezegun>=1.5.5
 

requirements.txt

@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@
 
 from .api_client import ApiClient
 from .config import ApiClientOptions
+from .errors import GetTokenByExchangeProfileError
 
 __all__ = [
     "ApiClient",
-    "ApiClientOptions"
+    "ApiClientOptions",
+    "GetTokenByExchangeProfileError"
 ]