fix: run the commit handler on a dedicated background thread

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • DataStore commit handlers now run on a dedicated background thread, helping prevent writes from being delayed when the application thread pool is busy.
  • Exceptions raised during commit processing are handled without terminating the application.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

DataStore commit handlers now run on a dedicated named background thread. The processor preserves serialized updates and catches escaping handler exceptions.

Changes

DataStore Commit Processing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Dedicated commit handler thread JsonFlatFileDataStore/DataStore.cs, CHANGELOG.md	DataStore replaces Task.Run with a named background Thread. Commit processing preserves update serialization and file/state updates. Handler exceptions are caught, and the changelog records the change.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to fe7fb

The new background commit worker can stop after an exception, leaving writes incomplete and potentially causing shutdown to hang. This high-impact failure mode should be fixed before merging.

🚥 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 2 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: moving commit handler execution to a dedicated background thread.
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 `@JsonFlatFileDataStore/DataStore.cs`:
- Around line 96-100: Update the commit-processing loop around
CommitActionHandler and getLatestJson so an exception outside the inner try
blocks does not silently terminate the consumer thread: notify every dequeued
action with Ready(false, exception), reset _executingJsonUpdate in a finally
block, and either continue processing or record an explicit terminal fault that
later commits observe instead of waiting indefinitely.

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• CHANGELOG.md
• JsonFlatFileDataStore/DataStore.cs

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