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Dmitry Gusev 3ef6078b70 scaffolder: Support conditional if on output links and text (#33332)
* Add sample template for conditional output demo

Add a scaffolder template that exercises conditional `if` on output
links and text items, for testing issue #24805.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Gusev <gusevda90@gmail.com>

* Support conditional `if` on scaffolder output links and text

Add `if` property to output link and text items in scaffolder templates,
allowing template authors to conditionally show/hide output items based
on parameters or step results. Items with a falsy `if` condition are
filtered out before being sent to the frontend.

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* Add changesets for conditional output feature

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* Document conditional if on output links and text

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* Guard against non-object items in output arrays

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* Skip array items in output if-filtering destructuring

Add Array.isArray guard to prevent corrupting array items
into plain objects during the rest-destructuring step.

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* Extract filterConditionalItems helper to deduplicate logic

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* Align output if schema descriptions with step if semantics

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* Fix docs quality check: replace 'falsy' wording

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* Refactor filterConditionalItems to use flatMap and generics

Replace .filter().map() with a single flatMap call and make the function
generic to eliminate JsonArray casts at call sites.

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