ci: create env.json before build in functional tests

[Dor-bl]

PR title

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Related issue

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List of changes

• In .github/workflows/functional-test.yml, move the "Create test environment file" step before "Build solution" in both the android-tests and ios-tests jobs.

Types of changes

• Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality or value)
• Refactoring (non-breaking change that improves code without altering functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality not to work as expected)
• New test coverage (non-breaking change that adds tests for existing, previously untested functionality)
• Test fix (non-breaking change that improves test stability or correctness)
• Chore/Maintenance (updates to build scripts, dependencies, or GitHub Actions)

Tests

• Unit tests
• Integration tests
• No automated tests (explain why below)

How they run: This is a CI workflow ordering fix; it's exercised by the existing functional-test.yml runs themselves (Android/iOS jobs) rather than by unit/integration tests.

Documentation

• Not applicable (no user-facing behaviour change, e.g. tests, CI or maintenance only)

Details

The android-tests and ios-tests jobs in functional-test.yml ran dotnet build before the "Create test environment file" step wrote test/integration/env.json. The integration test csproj has:

<None Update="env.json" Condition="Exists('env.json')">
  <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
</None>

Condition="Exists('env.json')" is evaluated at build time, so when env.json doesn't exist yet during dotnet build, the item is excluded from the project and never copied to bin/Release/net8.0. Since the test step then runs with --no-build, the file is never copied later either, producing:

Error initializing environment: Could not find file '.../test/integration/bin/Release/net8.0/env.json'.

Fix: create env.json before dotnet build runs so it exists when the project is evaluated and gets copied to the output directory as intended.

Reference failing run: https://github.com/Dor-bl/dotnet-client/actions/runs/35195002624/job/105116041898#step:15:91

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Pull request overview

Moves env.json creation before restore/build in Android and iOS functional-test jobs.

Changes:

• Reorders environment-file creation before restore/build.
• Applies the fix to both functional-test jobs.

File summaries

File	Description
.github/workflows/functional-test.yml	Reorders CI steps in both functional-test jobs.

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