[Fix] Massive Logs Support to CLI

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Fix: project-chip/certification-tool#1072
Depends on the CLI's: project-chip/certification-tool-cli#107

Description

Fixes #1072 — SDK test logs were being silently truncated in CLI runs, and large test cases could stall the whole backend for tens of seconds right as a run finished.

Background for context

When a Python-based test case runs, the SDK container writes its trace output to a file. The backend tails that file and turns each line into a log entry that goes two places: a database column (so the log can be downloaded later) and a
WebSocket broadcast (so the CLI/UI can show it live). For small test cases this was never a problem. For large ones (e.g. TC-ACE-2.4, which can produce 800,000+ log lines), it exposed real bugs in both the log-capture step and the delivery
pipeline.

The main fix: redundant database writes were blocking the server

The biggest issue: every ~0.5 seconds during a run, the backend re-queued the entire accumulated log (as one Python object reference) for saving to the database — but never actually committed it until the run finished.
At that point, it drained the queue and called session.commit() once per queued item. Since the queue held the same object reference every time, a 12-minute run produced ~1,400 redundant commits of the same, ever-growing, ~85MB blob, executed back-to-back, synchronously, on the server's single event loop. This blocked everything — other requests, other WebSocket connections — for however long that took, right at the moment the run was wrapping up and needed to send its final "completed" messages.

Fix: track "already pending" writes by object identity so redundant re-queuing collapses into a single pending save, and move the actual database commit off the event loop (asyncio.to_thread) so even that one remaining write can't block anything else.

Supporting fixes

• SDK log capture was silently losing data. The subprocess that runs the test wrote its output to a file using default OS buffering, so content could sit unflushed for a long time. Fixed by switching to line buffering. Separately, the
  code that matched log lines to test steps assumed step names were plain numbers ("1", "2", ...) — tests with looped/parameterized steps use composite names (e.g. "3a_kView"), which never matched, so their output was silently dropped.
  Fixed by matching on the real step name instead:
• Unbounded WebSocket broadcasts. A dense burst of log lines (e.g. an end-of-run conformance report) could get batched into a single, multi-megabyte WebSocket message with no size limit and no yield point during serialization. Now
  broadcast in fixed-size chunks (200 entries) so no single message can monopolize the event loop.
• Dropped connections were retried forever. The WebSocket broadcaster only handled the "graceful close" case; an abrupt disconnect (e.g. from the stall above) wasn't recognized, so the backend kept trying to send to a dead connection for the rest of the run. Now both cases are handled and the dead connection is removed immediately.

Verified

Re-ran TC-ACE-2.4 (the reported case) end-to-end. The CLI's saved log and the backend's own downloadable copy match line-for-line through to Test Run Completed on both runs, with no gap and no multi-second stall near completion.

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The changes configure WebSocket ping timeouts and improve closed-connection cleanup. Execution updates now use identity-based deduplication, asynchronous saves, and worker-thread commits. UI log broadcasts use chunks of 200 records. Matter test logging now tracks SDK step names, handles invalid encodings, uses line buffering, and emits output in asynchronous batches. Regression tests cover these behaviors.

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148-152: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the real database commit path.

The only test that awaits apply_updates() patches Session.commit, so it does not verify persistence. Add an integration test that uses the configured PostgreSQL database, runs apply_updates() without mocking Session.commit, and reloads the updated row in a new session.

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In `@app/test_engine/test_db_observer.py` around lines 148 - 152, Add an
integration test alongside the existing apply_updates coverage that uses the
configured PostgreSQL database, invokes apply_updates() without patching
Session.commit, and verifies persistence by loading the modified row through a
separate new session. Keep mocked commit tests unchanged and reuse the existing
database/session setup and update symbols.

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In `@app/test_engine/test_ui_observer.py`:
- Around line 94-96: Initialize __async_updates as an instance attribute in
TestUIObserver.__init__() instead of relying on the class-level list. Update
complete_tasks() to snapshot the current instance list and clear that same list
after taking the snapshot, so completed broadcast tasks are not retained or
shared across TestUIObserver instances.
- Around line 94-96: Update TestUIObserver.__send_message and the
SocketConnectionManager.broadcast path to serialize TEST_LOG_RECORDS broadcasts
per websocket, preserving chunk order despite separately scheduled tasks. Add a
regression test that verifies ordered delivery, and ensure the external UI
consumer appends each received payload to its accumulated log entries rather
than replacing them.

In
`@test_collections/matter/sdk_tests/support/python_testing/models/rpc_client/test_harness_client.py`:
- Around line 194-197: Update the open call in the execution-log writing block
to explicitly use UTF-8 encoding, while preserving the existing line-buffering
behavior.

In
`@test_collections/matter/sdk_tests/support/python_testing/models/test_case.py`:
- Around line 561-573: Stream log content in bounded batches instead of loading
the entire file before yielding. At
test_collections/matter/sdk_tests/support/python_testing/models/test_case.py
lines 561-573, replace readlines() with incremental batch reads while preserving
batched logging and event-loop delays; at lines 504-527, process only content
after the cursor incrementally without using f.read() to load the complete file.
- Around line 216-221: Update the incremental file-reading logic in the test
case model to track a byte cursor and preserve UTF-8 incremental decoder state
across reads, rather than decoding each text chunk independently. Ensure split
multibyte characters are emitted only after their final byte arrives and keep
cached content and subsequent log slicing positions consistent. Add a regression
test that appends the final byte of a split UTF-8 character.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@app/test_engine/test_db_observer.py`:
- Around line 148-152: Add an integration test alongside the existing
apply_updates coverage that uses the configured PostgreSQL database, invokes
apply_updates() without patching Session.commit, and verifies persistence by
loading the modified row through a separate new session. Keep mocked commit
tests unchanged and reuse the existing database/session setup and update
symbols.

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