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The same payment request reaches your API twice, or a client retries after a timeout. How do you guarantee one charge?
Tests whether you reach for a client-supplied idempotency key stored with a unique DB constraint, so a duplicate request is detected and short-circuited to return the original result instead of processing the charge a second time.
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