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API Design Patterns
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API Design Patterns

by John J. Geewax
July 2021
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
14h 40m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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26 Request deduplication

This chapter covers

  • How to use request identifiers to prevent duplicate requests
  • How to manage collisions with request identifiers to avoid confusing results
  • Balancing caching and consistency of requests and responses

In a world where we cannot guarantee that all requests and responses will complete their journeys as intended, we’ll inevitably need to retry requests as failures occur. This is not an issue for API methods that are idempotent; however, we’ll need a way to safely retry requests without causing duplicated work This pattern presents a mechanism to safely retry requests in the face of failure in a web API, regardless of the idempotence of the method.

26.1 Motivation

Unfortunately, we live in a very uncertain ...

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