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title: "How would you design an API to be idempotent, and why is this important?"  
description: "How would you design an API to be idempotent, and why is this important?"  
author: "Ravi Vishwakarma"  
published: 2024-09-20  
updated: 2024-09-20  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/113452/how-would-you-design-an-api-to-be-idempotent-and-why-is-this-important  
category: "application"  
tags: ["api", "application testing", "programming language"]  

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# How would you design an API to be idempotent, and why is this important?




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