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Expire memory codec contexts per invocation - #44

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Summary

  • Expire every application memory-codec context in a finally block, including failed and throwing codec invocations.
  • Require the original activation epoch, dispatch thread, and live activation before every context metadata or raw-memory access.
  • Add an internal SDK-backed port so regression tests prove expired contexts make zero SDK calls.
  • Document the ephemeral context contract without changing the shipped interfaces.

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  • Targeted codec-context lifetime tests: 8 passed.
  • Full Core test project: 235 passed.
  • Release build with warnings as errors: 0 warnings, 0 errors.
  • Package creation: passed.
  • Native AOT probe publish and execution for win-x64: passed.

The full solution test run passed 517 of 518 tests. Its sole failure is the known Lua-generator snapshot CRLF/LF mismatch in ModuleAdapterSnapshotUsesOneAdmittedOperationAndPreflightsEveryExport; this PR does not touch generator sources or snapshots.

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This resolves the managed lifetime slice of CLI-005 using the archive's source-based R22/R27 guidance and the issue's explicit PointerSize, exception, worker, re-enable, and non-pooling criteria. No live Cheat Engine qualification is claimed.

Closes #21

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  • Documentation

    • Clarified that memory read and write contexts are valid only while their codec operation is running.
    • Retaining a context after completion or failure is unsupported; subsequent access raises an expiration error.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved memory codec safety by rejecting access from expired, stale, or unauthorized execution contexts.
    • Preserved original codec exceptions and memory-operation failure details when operations fail.

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Memory codec context lifetime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Context contracts and memory port
libs/CheatEngine.Client.Abstractions/Memory/*, libs/CheatEngine.Client.Core/Domains/IMemoryCodecContextPort.cs
The context documentation defines invalidation after codec completion. The internal port provides target bitness detection and byte read/write operations with failure messages.
MemoryClient context lifecycle
libs/CheatEngine.Client.Core/Domains/MemoryClient.cs, libs/CheatEngine.Client.Extensions.DependencyInjection/CheatEngineClientServiceCollectionExtensions.cs
MemoryClient receives CoreLifetime and the memory port. It expires contexts after codec execution and rejects expired, stale, inactive, wrong-thread, and non-main-thread access.
Lifecycle and constructor validation
tests/CheatEngine.Client.Core.Tests/Domains/*, tests/CheatEngine.Client.Core.Tests/TestSupport/InertCoreLifetime.cs
Tests cover successful, failed, throwing, stale, cross-thread, and activation-epoch context use. Existing tests now provide the required lifetime dependency.

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libs/CheatEngine.Client.Core/Domains/MemoryClient.cs (1)

824-824: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Rename ThrowIfUsable to state the real condition.

The method throws when the context is not usable. The current name states the opposite condition. Rename it to ThrowIfUnusable and update the call sites on lines 773, 787, and 800.

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-		private void ThrowIfUsable()
+		private void ThrowIfUnusable()
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In `@libs/CheatEngine.Client.Core/Domains/MemoryClient.cs` at line 824, Rename the
private method ThrowIfUsable to ThrowIfUnusable in MemoryClient and update all
call sites, including those in the methods at the referenced locations, to use
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In `@libs/CheatEngine.Client.Core/Domains/MemoryClient.cs`:
- Line 824: Rename the private method ThrowIfUsable to ThrowIfUnusable in
MemoryClient and update all call sites, including those in the methods at the
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  • libs/CheatEngine.Client.Abstractions/Memory/IMemoryReadContext.cs
  • libs/CheatEngine.Client.Abstractions/Memory/IMemoryWriteContext.cs
  • libs/CheatEngine.Client.Core/Domains/IMemoryCodecContextPort.cs
  • libs/CheatEngine.Client.Core/Domains/MemoryClient.cs
  • libs/CheatEngine.Client.Extensions.DependencyInjection/CheatEngineClientServiceCollectionExtensions.cs
  • tests/CheatEngine.Client.Core.Tests/Domains/MemoryClientBehaviorCoverageTests.cs
  • tests/CheatEngine.Client.Core.Tests/Domains/MemoryClientDispatchFailureTests.cs
  • tests/CheatEngine.Client.Core.Tests/Domains/MemoryClientTests.cs
  • tests/CheatEngine.Client.Core.Tests/Domains/MemoryCodecContextLifetimeTests.cs
  • tests/CheatEngine.Client.Core.Tests/TestSupport/InertCoreLifetime.cs

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