fix(projections): preserve behavior over gRPC

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• Prevents projection behavior from becoming unverified while the unsupported TCP client is retired.
• Keeps parity review anchored to the established scenario names and expectations.

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PR Summary

Low Risk
Changes are confined to test infrastructure, comments, and removed manual playground files; runtime projection logic is unchanged aside from documentation comments.

Overview
Replaces the legacy TCP IEventStoreConnection harness in projection integration tests with gRPC StreamsClient and the existing ProjectionManagementTestClient, so standard-projection, cluster, emitted-stream, and grpc-service scenarios keep the same expectations while the unsupported client is retired. Test categories move from ClientAPI to Grpc, and DEBUG-only #if gates are removed so these suites can run in normal CI builds.

Shared fixtures now poll for projection status and stream tails, use bounded timeouts and cancellation tokens on management/stream calls, and add helpers such as WaitForStreamEvents, revision-aware append/delete, and gRPC RecordedEvent extensions. Emitted-stream tracker/deleter specs are rewired to the new base (including subscription/read helpers) plus unit tests that assert reads cancel cleanly on timeout.

Removes obsolete Launchpad manual playground fixtures from the test project; production projection code only gets comment tweaks about delete-stream API semantics (no behavior change).

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Walkthrough

The pull request migrates projection tests from the legacy TCP client API to gRPC. It adds gRPC stream helpers, polling-based synchronization, updated emitted-stream assertions, and removes two manual playground fixtures.

Changes

gRPC projection test migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cluster projection harness src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/ClientAPI/Cluster/...	Cluster tests now use gRPC channels, corrected gossip seeds, gRPC append/read/delete operations, and projection-status polling.
Standard projection harness src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/ClientAPI/specification_with_standard_projections_runnning.cs, src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/ClientAPI/with_standard_projections_running.cs, src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/ClientAPI/RecordedEventExtensions.cs	Standard projection tests now use gRPC stream helpers and protobuf event data. Assertions wait for indexed events and inspect gRPC metadata.
Emitted-stream gRPC harness src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/SpecificationWithEmittedStreamsTrackerAndDeleter.cs, src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/emitted_streams_.../*	The emitted-stream fixture owns a gRPC node client. Tests append, read, and wait for events through shared helpers instead of TCP subscriptions.
Supporting test cleanup src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/grpc_service/..., src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Playground/*, src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests.csproj, src/EventStore.Projections.Core/*	Additional fixtures remove legacy client references. Two manual playground fixtures and their project exclusions are removed. Two comments are reworded without changing runtime behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d0fde

Projection tests may run without required projections or remain active after timing out, so these reliability defects should be fixed before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 102 functions across 16 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: preserving projection behavior during the gRPC migration.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly relates to the gRPC migration, projection behavior parity, and retirement of the TCP client.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In
`@src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/ClientAPI/Cluster/specification_with_standard_projections_runnning.cs`:
- Around line 198-201: Update the teardown logic around _nodes and Task.WhenAll
to shut down every non-null node individually, rather than requiring
_nodes.All(...) to be true; preserve asynchronous shutdown for the nodes that
were successfully created and started.

In
`@src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/ClientAPI/specification_with_standard_projections_runnning.cs`:
- Line 40: Introduce a distinct PollTimeout for polling operations, use it in
GetCallOptions and the polling helpers WaitForProjectionStatus,
AssertStreamTail, and WaitForStreamEvents, and increase OperationTimeout so
Given() and When() wrappers exceed the polling budget. Keep OperationTimeout for
the Given()/When() calls and preserve existing assertion behavior.

In
`@src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/SpecificationWithEmittedStreamsTrackerAndDeleter.cs`:
- Around line 132-134: Update ReadEvents to preserve and return the stream read
state alongside the collected events, distinguishing StreamNotFound from a
successful empty read. Adjust both migrated deletion fixtures to assert
StreamNotFound explicitly while retaining event assertions for successful reads.

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• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/ClientAPI/Cluster/specification_with_standard_projections_runnning.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/ClientAPI/RecordedEventExtensions.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/ClientAPI/specification_with_standard_projections_runnning.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/ClientAPI/with_standard_projections_running.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests.csproj
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Playground/Launchpad.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Playground/Launchpad2.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/SpecificationWithEmittedStreamsTrackerAndDeleter.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/emitted_streams_deleter/when_deleting/with_an_existing_emitted_streams_stream.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/emitted_streams_deleter/when_deleting/with_multiple_tracked_streams.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/emitted_streams_tracker/when_tracking/with_tracking_disabled.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/emitted_streams_tracker/when_tracking/with_tracking_enabled.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/emitted_streams_tracker/when_tracking/with_tracking_enabled_with_duplicate_event_streams.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/event_filter/include_everything_event_filter.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/event_filter/include_everything_handling_deleted_notifications_event_filter.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/grpc_service/SpecificationWithNodeAndProjectionSubsystem.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/projections_manager/when_deleting_a_system_projection.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core/Services/Management/ManagedProjection.cs
• src/EventStore.Projections.Core/Services/Processing/Emitting/EmittedStreamsDeleter.cs

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🟠 Major · Propagate the final enable failure. · specification_with_standard_projections_runnning.cs:173

src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/ClientAPI/Cluster/specification_with_standard_projections_runnning.cs:173
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Propagate the final enable failure.

If all ten ProjectionClient.Enable attempts fail, the catch block also handles the tenth failure. The method then returns successfully. Setup continues with the required standard projection disabled.

Rethrow after the final attempt, or retain the final exception and fail the fixture.

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In
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at line 173, Update the retry logic surrounding ProjectionClient.Enable and
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- Around line 363-365: Update both WaitForProjectionStatus implementations to
accept and propagate one shared cancellation token or absolute deadline through
every polling attempt, including Statistics and Task.Delay. Ensure the
surrounding Given, When, and EnableStandardProjections operations use the same
bounded cancellation so WithTimeout also stops underlying work rather than only
the awaiter.

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`@src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/SpecificationWithEmittedStreamsTrackerAndDeleter.cs`:
- Around line 139-169: Update WaitForEvents and ReadEvents to propagate a
cancellation token based on the remaining deadline; assign it to CallOptions
when invoking StreamsClient.Read and pass it to ResponseStream.MoveNext instead
of default. Ensure the token is cancelled when the timeout expires so any
in-flight read is released.

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In
`@src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/ClientAPI/Cluster/specification_with_standard_projections_runnning.cs`:
- Line 173: Update the retry logic surrounding ProjectionClient.Enable and
WaitForProjectionStatus so the tenth failed attempt is not swallowed; rethrow
the final exception or otherwise fail the fixture before setup continues, while
preserving successful retries and existing retry behavior.

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• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/ClientAPI/Cluster/specification_with_standard_projections_runnning.cs
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• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/SpecificationWithEmittedStreamsTrackerAndDeleter.cs
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• src/EventStore.Projections.Core.Tests/Services/emitted_streams_tracker/when_tracking/with_tracking_disabled.cs
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