ReadBatch built parallel rowIds / events lists: rowIds.Add ran for every
row but events.Add was guarded by `if (evt is not null)`. A corrupt /
null-deserializing payload desynced the lists, so DrainOnceAsync applied
each outcome to the wrong RowId — an Ack could delete an un-sent event
(silent alarm-event data loss) and the corrupt row stalled the queue
head forever.
ReadBatch now returns a single list of QueueRow(long RowId,
AlarmHistorianEvent? Event) records so a rowId can never drift from its
event; deserialization is wrapped to yield null on JsonException.
DrainOnceAsync immediately dead-letters rows whose payload is
null/un-deserializable and forwards only well-formed events to the
writer, mapping outcomes by RowId.
Regression tests cover a corrupt row mid-batch and at the queue head.
Core.AlarmHistorian suite: 16/16 pass.
Resolves code-review finding Core.AlarmHistorian-001 (Critical).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Joseph Doherty
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