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API Idempotent Design

Design safe repeat calls

Designing idempotent APIs uses stable identifiers, idempotency keys, and safe verbs to avoid duplicate effects when clients retry.

Use Safe Verbs

Prefer PUT for replace and PATCH for updates with checks.

Keys

Support idempotency keys to dedupe repeated creates.

Test

Simulate retries to confirm no duplicate side effects.

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