ManagementActor's ParseDataType/ParseElementDataType (bare Enum.TryParse) and
the two AlarmTriggerType parse sites in HandleAddAlarm/HandleUpdateAlarm (raw
Enum.Parse) all admitted ordinals ("2"), undefined values ("99" — a
deploy-time bomb that saves fine and only detonates at deploy), and
comma-joined name lists (bitwise-ORed together regardless of [Flags], e.g.
"String,Int32" silently becoming DateType.DateTime). A typo against the raw
Enum.Parse sites also surfaced as a masked "An internal error occurred"
rather than a curated field-naming error.
Adds ParseEnumStrict<TEnum>, mirroring the existing ParseDeploymentStatus
guard (names only, defined values only, comma-token rejection per the
Medium-wave T8 nuance / AuditQueryParamParsers.ParseEnumListStrict pattern),
and routes all four call sites through it.
Tests: 22 new ManagementActorTests cases per parse site (ordinal, undefined
numeric, comma-joined, and typo all rejected with the curated field-naming
error; every defined name still parses through to the service layer).
Proof of failure recorded in each rejection test's doc comment; verified
live by stashing the ManagementActor.cs fix — exactly the 14 new rejection
tests fail pre-fix (13 acceptance tests pass unchanged), confirming the
defect and the fix.
Joseph Doherty
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