Tokens are not redeemed for viewed Ads at server side when passing --rewards=debug=true command-line arg

[GeetaSarvadnya]

Description

Found while testing #3659
Tokens are not redeemed for viewed Ads at server side

Steps to Reproduce

1. Clean profile 0.63.46
2. Launch the browser through command line using C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe --enable-logging --log-level=2 --vmodule=brave_ads=3 --brave-ads-production --rewards=staging=false --rewards=debug=true
3. View a couple of Ads
4. Close the browser
5. Wait for 25 mins
6. Relaunch browser
7. Verify console logs
8. Tokens are not redeemed for viewed ads

Actual result:

Redeemed token records are empty at the server side

Payment id: "5c53d8f3-0bd4-4830-a7e9-b5bb96e60b61"

chrome_debug.log

Expected result:

Redeemed token records should be available in DB table

Reproduces how often:

Always

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	0.63.46 Chromium: 74.0.3729.91 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	03844ed83e02b8add3f4b9cb859a7108d55b2e4d-refs/branch-heads/3729@{#860}
OS	Windows 10 OS Build 17134.523

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? NA
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? No
• Can you reproduce this issue with the dev channel? Not verified
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Not verified

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? NA
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?NA
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

Miscellaneous Information:

@amirsaber: Thanks for checking records at the server side
@brave/legacy_qa @tmancey

[tmancey]

Steps to reproduce (on any platform across all build channels)

• Launch browser with --rewards=debug=true command-line arg
• View some Ads
• Close the browser
• Wait for ~25 minutes
• Launch the browser

Expected result:

Tokens are redeemed with the Ads service

Actual result:

Tokens are not redeemed and the timer resets to ~25 minutes

NOTES: If the user does not close the browser tokens are redeemed.

@GeetaSarvadnya can you please confirm and update the steps in the description

[GeetaSarvadnya]

@tmancey Steps are updated. The issue is arising when we use --rewards=debug=true flag and close the browser after viewing ads.

[GeetaSarvadnya]

Verification passed on

Brave	0.64.68 Chromium: 74.0.3729.108 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Revision	daaff52abef89988bf2a26091062160b1482b108-refs/branch-heads/3729@{#901}
OS	Windows 10 OS Build 17134.523

• Verified the STR mentioned in the description

Verified passed with

Brave	0.64.72 Chromium: 74.0.3729.131 (Official Build) beta(64-bit)
Revision	518a41c1fa7ce1c8bb5e22346e82e42b4d76a96f-refs/branch-heads/3729@{#954}
OS	Mac OS X

• Verified STR from description

Verified passed with

Brave	0.64.75 Chromium: 74.0.3729.131 (Official Build) beta(64-bit)
Revision	518a41c1fa7ce1c8bb5e22346e82e42b4d76a96f-refs/branch-heads/3729@{#954}
OS	Linux