fix: dev to main - Add location parameter to AI search service and update package versions, improvements to local development setup

[Pavan-Microsoft]

Purpose

This pull request introduces several improvements to local development setup, infrastructure automation, dependency updates, and documentation. The main focus is on enhancing the developer experience by providing robust startup scripts for both Windows and Unix-like systems, improving environment and process management, updating dependencies for better security and compatibility, and refining infrastructure deployment scripts.

Local Development Experience Improvements:

• Added automated startup scripts (start.cmd for Windows and start.sh for macOS/Linux/WSL) that handle environment setup, dependency installation, Azure authentication, and starting backend/frontend servers, including automatic cleanup of processes on exit or interruption. The documentation (LocalDevelopmentSetup.md) was updated to reflect these changes and provide clear instructions. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Dependency Updates:

• Updated several Python and Node.js package dependencies to address security, compatibility, and feature improvements, including aiohttp, requests, pytest, pypdf, and lodash. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Infrastructure and Automation Enhancements:

• Improved Bicep and ARM templates for Azure resource deployment by adding the location parameter to the search service module, refining resource dependency ordering, and ensuring proper deployment sequencing. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Azure Role Assignment and Access:

• Updated Cosmos DB role assignment instructions in the documentation to use the recommended az cosmosdb sql role assignment create command and clarified variable usage for improved reliability.

These changes collectively streamline the local development workflow, improve reliability and cross-platform support, and keep dependencies and infrastructure scripts up-to-date.

Does this introduce a breaking change?

• Yes
• No

Golden Path Validation

• I have tested the primary workflows (the "golden path") to ensure they function correctly without errors.

Deployment Validation

• I have validated the deployment process successfully and all services are running as expected with this change.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR updates application and script dependencies and adjusts the infrastructure templates to improve AI Search deployment parameterization (adding location) and deployment ordering.

Changes:

• Bumps Python dependencies (API + infra scripts) and updates frontend overrides/lockfile for lodash.
• Adds/passes location to the AI Search AVM module invocation in Bicep and the generated ARM template.
• Reorders some dependsOn entries in infra/main.json and updates the generated template hash.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
src/api/requirements.txt	Updates pinned Python dependency versions (requests/types-requests/aiohttp/pytest).
infra/scripts/agent_scripts/requirements.txt	Bumps aiohttp for agent scripts.
infra/scripts/index_scripts/requirements.txt	Bumps pypdf for indexing scripts.
src/App/package.json	Adds a lodash override version.
src/App/package-lock.json	Updates resolved lodash package version in lockfile.
infra/main.bicep	Passes location into searchServiceUpdate module params.
infra/main_custom.bicep	Passes location into searchServiceUpdate module params.
infra/main.json	Reflects Bicep changes: templateHash update, location param passed to module, dependency ordering tweaks.

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