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kollaikal-rupesh 80bd935c19 Add ServiceSwitcherStrategyFailover for automatic failover on service errors (#3870)
* Add ServiceSwitcherStrategyFailover for automatic error-based service switching

Introduce a strategy hierarchy: ServiceSwitcherStrategy (base) →
ServiceSwitcherStrategyManual (handles ManuallySwitchServiceFrame) →
ServiceSwitcherStrategyFailover (adds error-based failover). ServiceSwitcher
now defaults to ServiceSwitcherStrategyManual with strategy_type optional.
Non-fatal ErrorFrames are forwarded to the strategy via handle_error().

* Move metadata request into _set_active_if_available

Requesting metadata is part of making a service active, so it belongs
alongside setting _active_service and firing on_service_switched. This
removes the duplicate queue_frame calls from ServiceSwitcher push_frame
and process_frame.
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  • ServiceSwitcherStrategy base class now provides a handle_error() hook for subclasses to implement error-based switching. ServiceSwitcher defaults to ServiceSwitcherStrategyManual and strategy_type is now optional.