Waleed d1e3eeea9e fix(knowledge): parse the stored artifact, not the document's display name (#6817)
* fix(knowledge): parse the stored artifact, not the document's display name

A connector document's `filename` is a display name that deliberately disagrees
with the bytes on disk: the sync engine records the source file's name
(`Report.pdf`) while storing the text the connector already extracted from it
under a `.txt` key, with `mimeType: 'text/plain'`.

`processDocumentAsync` discards the processing filename the sync engine computes
and rebuilds its input from the document row, so the parser was chosen from the
display name and re-parsed extracted text as the source binary. In production
that failed 1,379 SharePoint PDFs with `Invalid PDF structure.` and silently
double-wrapped 364 spreadsheets — those reported `completed`, wrapping a second
fake sheet around the connector's own extraction, because SheetJS accepts almost
any input.

Parser selection now prefers the extension of the object actually fetched,
falling back to the filename/MIME path when the URL is not ours or the key
carries no extension a parser claims. Both ingestion paths are honest under that
rule because `fitStorageKeyName` preserves extensions through truncation: an
upload keys on its original name, a connector document keys on what it stored.

This layer is what covers the stuck-document retry sweep, which rebuilds its own
input from the same display name — the sweep is the path that reprocesses the
already-failed documents, so a fix confined to `processDocumentAsync` would have
left the remediation itself broken.

The defect predates the connectors that expose it: Box fetches Box-side text
representations for `pdf`/`docx`/`xlsx` and stores them under the source name
too, so it was latent there before SharePoint and OneDrive reached binary
formats.

`connectorArtifactFileName` now owns the `.txt` suffix that the parser choice
depends on, so the invariant is structural instead of a convention repeated at
four call sites per function.

* fix(knowledge): raise the connector sync ceiling and tie it to the stale lock

A 2,600-document library exhausted the 30-minute budget and the run was killed
mid-listing, leaving the connector's `syncing` lock set until the scheduler
reclaimed it.

Raising the ceiling is not a lone constant, because reclaiming a stale lock
flips the connector to `error` and frees it for another sync. A TTL at or below
the run ceiling would hand the lock to a successor while the first sync is still
writing — two syncs racing the same `(connectorId, externalId)` rows. The
previous values, a 1800s run against a hard-coded 120-minute TTL declared in a
different file, held that invariant only by coincidence.

Both now derive from one another, with a test pinning the margin so the next
raise cannot silently break it.
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Open sim.ai

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