Re:Problems with RESTful APIs (2015)
by joncrocks on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @07:41AM
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It can be as long as you have some kind of identity information associated with the request, and provided alongside any requests that are the 'same'.
e.g. Instead of saying "Insert a transaction for £20", you say, "Insert a transaction that entity A calls 1234, for £20".
Stripe use something like this to ensure that as long as you call their API to ask for a payment and use the same key, they won't charge the person twice.
e.g. Instead of saying "Insert a transaction for £20", you say, "Insert a transaction that entity A calls 1234, for £20".
Stripe use something like this to ensure that as long as you call their API to ask for a payment and use the same key, they won't charge the person twice.
https://stripe.com/docs/api#idempotent_requests