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AzureStorage: purge corrupted queue messages.

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2/5
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1-3 hours
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45/100
Issue type
Bug
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Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
azure, csharp

Research direction

Start with the deserialization-failure handling at the referenced lines in src/DurableTask.AzureStorage/Messaging/ControlQueue.cs and WorkItemQueue.cs. Compare how each queue handles failed framework-type deserialization, then verify that corrupted messages are deleted rather than retried indefinitely.

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Description

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We should evaluate updating these two code locations to delete corrupted (fails deserialization) messages from the queue. It is not expected that deserialization failures is a transient issue and no amount of retries / time delay will fix these messages. Particularly because it is only framework types (and not user) being deserialized here.

Location 1:
https://github.com/Azure/durabletask/blob/b4ec695dc5c51319b99c20557f9d47a1dd518729/src/DurableTask.AzureStorage/Messaging/ControlQueue.cs#L108-L110

Location 2:

https://github.com/Azure/durabletask/blob/b4ec695dc5c51319b99c20557f9d47a1dd518729/src/DurableTask.AzureStorage/Messaging/WorkItemQueue.cs#L47-L49

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