Waleed efe1de315e fix(tables): sniff CSV delimiter and capture the real header row on import (#5888)
* fix(tables): sniff CSV delimiter and capture the real header row on import

Table CSV import derived the delimiter purely from the file extension, so
semicolon-delimited exports (European-locale Excel) parsed as a single column.
Header derivation also read Object.keys(rows[0]), so with relax_column_count a
ragged/sparse first data row dropped its trailing columns from schema inference.

- Add detectCsvDelimiter: trial-parse the head against ,/;/tab/| and pick the
  candidate with the most columns (tie-break on row-width consistency), quote-aware
  so separators inside quoted cells don't skew the guess; extension is now only the
  fallback
- Add sniffCsvDelimiterFromStream: memory-bounded (64KB) peek-then-replay for the
  streaming import paths so multi-GB files sniff without buffering
- Capture the true header row via the csv-parse columns callback on every path,
  fixing dropped columns when the first row is short
- Wire into the create route, append/replace route, background runner, client
  dialog preview, and parseFileRows (copilot)

* fix(tables): rank CSV delimiter by row consistency and bound the peek buffer

Addresses review findings on the delimiter sniffer:

- Rank candidates by row-width consistency first (modal column count), then column
  count. Ranking on column count alone let a comma that appears in a semicolon
  file's unquoted header win over the real separator; the wide-but-ragged split
  now loses to the uniform one.
- Move the partial-trailing-line trim into detectCsvDelimiter so every path
  (stream, client preview, parseFileRows) prepares the sniff sample identically
  and can't disagree on the delimiter.
- Cap the stream peeker's detection copy at the sniff window via Buffer.concat's
  length arg and replay the buffered chunks by reference, so an oversized source
  chunk can't break the bounded-memory contract.

* fix(tables): score CSV delimiter by width*consistency and dedupe headers

Addresses round-2 review findings:

- Score each delimiter candidate by modalWidth * consistency instead of
  consistency alone. Consistency-only let a separator that appears uniformly
  inside values (e.g. a pipe once per row) beat a real delimiter whose rows are
  legitimately ragged; the product rewards a split that is both wide and uniform,
  with width breaking ties. Genuinely symmetric files (two valid columns under
  either separator) fall back to the global-default candidate order.
- Dedupe the captured header row to match the parser's record keys. csv-parse
  collapses duplicate column names onto one key (last value wins), so reporting
  the raw duplicates made schema inference invent a phantom empty column and
  could fail mapping validation. dedupeHeaders keeps first-occurrence order,
  case-sensitively, matching the emitted keys.

* fix(tables): keep the final row when sniffing a complete CSV

detectCsvDelimiter always trimmed to the last newline, so a complete file with
no trailing newline lost its final data row from scoring — leaving the header
alone and letting a header-widening separator beat the real one. It now takes a
`complete` flag: the trim runs only for truncated prefixes, where a mid-record
cut must be dropped. The stream sniffer passes it from `exhausted`, and the
buffered callers (client preview, parseFileRows) pass it when the sample covers
the whole file.

* fix(tables): keep the double-cast annotation adjacent to its cast

Hoist the csv-parse options out of the multi-line parse() call so the
`// double-cast-allowed` annotation sits directly above the `as unknown as`
token — the strict boundary audit only matches an annotation within three lines
of the cast. Also simplify the stream sniffer's completeness check to `exhausted`
(the loop only ends early on end-of-stream, so it already means the whole file
fit the sniff window).

* fix(tables): observe EOF at the exact sniff-window boundary

The stream sniffer's read loop stopped as soon as the buffered size reached the
sniff window, so a file whose size is exactly the window never triggered the
extra read that observes end-of-stream — it was judged a truncated prefix and
dropped its final newline-less row, disagreeing with the buffered callers (which
mark that size complete). Read while size <= window so the boundary case sees EOF
and `exhausted` (hence `complete`) is set correctly. Regression test added.

* test(tables): use sleep helper instead of raw setTimeout promise
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