fix(quickfiler): correct WebView2 breadcrumb host lifecycle, thread marshalling and initializer contract

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fix(quickfiler): correct WebView2 breadcrumb host lifecycle, thread marshalling and initializer contract

Summary

• Removes a stale-handler leak across pooled-viewer reuse: a ConditionalWeakTable owner registry with a static gate lets a superseded WebView2BreadcrumbHost detach its own subscription, replacing a constructor-side unhook that could never remove a predecessor's delegate (Bug: webview2breadcrumbhost-handler-retention-pooled-viewer #458).
• Marshals WebView2 SDK access onto the UI SynchronizationContext instead of calling it on whatever thread the caller happens to be on, and publishes IsCoreInitialized through a Volatile field rather than an unsynchronized auto-property (Bug: webview2breadcrumbhost-unmarshalled-sdk-call-and-unsynchronized-state #476).
• Corrects the IWebViewCoreInitializer contract: the false "1:1 forward" claim is replaced with documented behaviour, and both implementations now validate their arguments (Bug: iwebviewcoreinitializer-contract-defects #477).
• Narrows [ExcludeFromCodeCoverage] from whole classes down to six genuinely host-bound members, so eleven previously unmeasured members now enter the coverage denominator.
• Adds fifteen regression tests across three files, each written failing-first with a recorded red run before the fix.
• Repository coverage rises: line 85.1302% to 85.1435%, branch 79.1973% to 79.2018%.

Why

Three separately reported defects share one file set and one lifecycle area, so they are fixed together rather than in three passes over the same code.

WebView2BreadcrumbHost is constructed against a pooled WebView2 control. The previous constructor tried to unhook a handler from the control before subscribing, but the delegate it unhooked belonged to the incoming instance, not to the predecessor that had actually subscribed. -= against a different target removes nothing, so each reuse of the pool left another host reachable from the control. The registry makes the predecessor detach itself, which is the only instance that can.

Separately, the host called into the WebView2 SDK directly from the calling thread and published its initialization state through a plain auto-property. WebView2 is thread-affine, and an unsynchronized bool gives no ordering guarantee between the writer that completes initialization and a reader on another thread.

IWebViewCoreInitializer documented itself as a 1:1 forward of the SDK surface while hard-coding one of the SDK's arguments and validating none of its own.

What Changed

Core fix (QuickFiler/Viewers/)

• WebView2BreadcrumbHost.cs (+269 / -38 across the file): owner registry and static gate; constructor lookup-detach-replace sequence; UI-dispatcher installation with an inline fallback; marshalled NavigateToString and PostMessageJson; Volatile-published IsCoreInitialized; tolerant DetachCore for a null or already-disposed core.
• WebView2CoreInitializer.cs: argument validation, and the SDK-reaching bodies extracted into thin [ExcludeFromCodeCoverage] forwards so the surrounding logic stays measured.
• IWebViewCoreInitializer.cs: contract documentation corrected; the Evergreen-only decision recorded on the interface rather than left implicit.

Tests (QuickFiler.Test/)

• Viewers/WebView2BreadcrumbHostTests.cs (new, 440 lines) and Viewers/WebView2BreadcrumbHostContractTests.cs (new, 201 lines).
• Controllers/WebView2CoreInitializerTests.cs (+154 / -3).
• QuickFiler.Test.csproj gains exactly two <Compile Include> entries, both under this feature's owned Viewers\WebView2* prefix.

Documentation and evidence — 85 paths under the feature folder: the atomic plan (88 tasks, all checked), the spec (37 criteria, all checked), the three review artifacts, and the baseline, regression and QA-gate evidence trees.

Architecture / How It Fits Together

The host owns no WebView2 lifetime of its own; it attaches to a control the viewer pool owns and outlives. The registry keyed on that control is therefore the only place where "who is currently attached" can live, because neither the host nor the control can answer it alone. On construction a host takes the static gate, asks the registry who holds the control, tells that predecessor to detach itself, and records itself as the new owner.

Thread affinity is handled at the boundary rather than at each call site: the host captures the UI SynchronizationContext once at construction, and the two SDK-facing methods post through it, falling back to inline execution when no context is available. IsCoreInitialized is the one piece of state read across threads, so it is the one field published with Volatile.

IWebViewCoreInitializer remains the seam through which the item controller reaches the SDK, which is what makes the surrounding controller logic mockable.

Verification

Completed (full toolchain re-run after the base merge, in the mandated order, against this head)

Gate	Command	EXIT_CODE
Format	dotnet tool run csharpier check .	0
Analyzers	msbuild TaskMaster.sln /t:Rebuild /m /p:Configuration=Debug "/p:Platform=Any CPU" /p:EnableNETAnalyzers=true /p:EnforceCodeStyleInBuild=true	0
Type check	msbuild TaskMaster.sln /t:Rebuild /m /p:Configuration=Debug "/p:Platform=Any CPU" /p:TreatWarningsAsErrors=true	0
Tests	Invoke-MSTestWithCoverage.ps1	0

• Analyzers: 0 errors, 5 warnings, all the same non-code System.Reactive packages.config diagnostic that predates this branch. Type check: 0 errors, 0 CS86xx.
• Both MSBuild runs used /t:Rebuild and recorded zero Skipping target "CoreCompile" lines, so neither gate was vacuous. Non-vacuity is further evidenced by 36 csc.exe invocations and 65 CoreCompile: headers over 19 projects.
• Tests: 6734 / 6734 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped (baseline 6701 before the fifteen new tests and the merged siblings' additions).
• Coverage, read from the Cobertura root elements: line-rate 0.851302 to 0.851435, branch-rate 0.791973 to 0.792018. Both rose. Both clear the 85% line and 75% branch floors.
• Feature review returned 0 blocking findings across the policy audit, code review and feature audit.
• All 37 spec criteria are checked off individually, each traced to a named artifact or diff.

Recommended

• Re-run the four toolchain commands above after any rebase.
• Exercise QuickFiler pooled-viewer reuse against a live Outlook profile; the pooling path itself is not unit-testable.

Backward Compatibility / Migration Notes

No public API is removed or renamed. IWebViewCoreInitializer method signatures are unchanged; the change is documentation plus argument validation, so an existing implementation continues to compile. Callers that previously passed a null or whitespace cacheFolder and relied on the SDK's own behaviour will now receive an ArgumentNullException or ArgumentException naming the parameter. No consumer in this repository does so.

Detach ordering for pooled viewers changes: the predecessor host now detaches at the point its successor is constructed rather than never.

Risks and Mitigations

• Detach ordering. A predecessor now detaches when its successor constructs. Covered by the predecessor-detach, null-core-tolerance and disposed-self-detach regression tests. Rollback is a revert of the single fix commit.
• Marshalling changes timing. SDK calls now cross a SynchronizationContext post rather than running inline. The inline fallback preserves the old behaviour where no UI context exists, and both paths are covered.
• Coverage margin is thin. The repository sits 0.1435 percentage points above the 85% line floor. This change moves it up, not down, but the margin leaves little room for an unrelated regression.

Review Guide

1. QuickFiler/Viewers/WebView2BreadcrumbHost.cs — the substance of the change; read the constructor and DetachCore first.
2. QuickFiler/Viewers/WebView2CoreInitializer.cs and IWebViewCoreInitializer.cs — the seam contract.
3. QuickFiler.Test/Viewers/WebView2BreadcrumbHostTests.cs and WebView2BreadcrumbHostContractTests.cs.
4. docs/features/active/webview2-host-initializer-defects-476/code-review.2026-08-27T23-46.md — the review findings and their disposition.

The 85 documentation and evidence paths are additive and mechanical; they can be skimmed.

Follow-ups

Two non-blocking findings are recorded but deliberately not fixed here, to avoid widening the change beyond the reviewed tree. Both are committed on this branch and therefore survive into the integration branch for the epic capstone.

• CR-1 (code-review.2026-08-27T23-46.md): DetachCore does not remove the predecessor's _control.Disposed += OnControlDisposed subscription, so one edge from the control to a superseded host survives until the control is disposed. The spec's residual-risk item 3 is overstated by exactly this edge. One-line fix; recommended for promotion at epic close.
• P5-T40 (evidence/other/followup-promotion-handoff.2026-08-27T23-31.md): the EFC item controller reaches the WebView2 SDK directly at four sites instead of going through this seam, so it receives none of the guards added here. That file is outside this feature's writable set and is owned by a concurrent sibling feature; it must be promoted separately.

The plan's own 90% floor over the eleven members newly entering measurement is not met (86/99 = 86.87%). The four short members are NavigateToString, DetachCore, CreateEnvironmentAsync and EnsureCoreWebView2Async; every uncovered line was structurally verified to be an SDK-reaching statement or its closing brace, which cannot execute without the Evergreen runtime. Review dispositioned this non-blocking on the ground that the 90% floor binds members that are added, not pre-existing members entering measurement because a class-level exemption was correctly narrowed. Worth maintainer ratification in the coverage-uplift tracking.

The CLAUDE.md 80/90 and .claude/rules/general-unit-test.md 85/75 coverage thresholds contradict each other. The stricter of each pair was applied and the contradiction changed no verdict here, but it remains unresolved repository-wide.

GitHub Auto-close

• Closes Bug: webview2breadcrumbhost-unmarshalled-sdk-call-and-unsynchronized-state #476
• Closes Bug: webview2breadcrumbhost-handler-retention-pooled-viewer #458
• Closes Bug: iwebviewcoreinitializer-contract-defects #477

All three were confirmed OPEN with gh issue view immediately before this body was written. This pull request targets epic/quickfiler-bug-family-integration rather than the repository default branch, so GitHub will not act on these keywords at merge time; they record linkage for the epic capstone, which is responsible for the actual closure.