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Duplicate Orders

Public task brief · duplicate-orders-v2

Scenario

The checkout service for a small storefront intermittently creates duplicate orders. Customers on flaky connections retry their checkout request — sometimes by tapping the button again, sometimes because a client library retries automatically — and each retry produces a new order and a new charge.

Clients already send an Idempotency-Key header on POST /orders. The contract they expect:

  1. Two requests with the same Idempotency-Key must result in exactly one order. The second request returns the same order as the first.
  2. This must hold even when the requests arrive concurrently.
  3. Requests with different keys (or no key) create independent orders.
  4. The returned order for a replayed key is the original order — its amount and items do not change, whatever the replay contains.

Your task

Fix the idempotency defect in src/orders.js and src/store.js. Keep the existing request and response behavior for POST /orders.

The workspace starts the checkout service on port 8080 before the assessment begins.

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Time limit
30 min
Effective token target
75,000

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