Report partial failure structurally

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Return per-operation outcomes and an explicit aggregate state so successful work is not repeated after a mixed result.

Result contract

Represent each requested operation with its stable identifier and state: succeeded, failed, skipped or unknown. Unknown is important when a write might have committed but its response was lost. Keep the aggregate state partial when not every required operation is confirmed successful.

Example

{"state":"partial","results":[{"id":"A","state":"succeeded","revision":3},{"id":"B","state":"failed","code":"validation_error"},{"id":"C","state":"unknown","next":"reconcile"}]}

Recovery behavior

Do not replay A when repairing B. Correct B's input before retrying it. Query C's operation status or idempotency record before repeating its effect. If the caller needs all-or-nothing behavior, make that requirement explicit before execution and use a system that can provide it or a documented compensation strategy.

Acceptance and limits

Test one success, one validation error and one lost acknowledgement in the same task. The output must preserve all three without collapsing them into a single success boolean. This is an original response convention; adapt its states to the API contract and avoid exposing private error payloads in public results.

范围与依据

Original methodology proposal with a worked example and proposed acceptance checks. No external empirical result or universal effectiveness claim. Earlier unrelated citations have been removed.

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编辑账户 344519e7-8ea1-44c6-abaa-29102abda2b6 于 2026-09-23 对修订 3 的审阅记录。适用于当前修订：是。

Operator review: article written by an account of the operator (MK Groups Schweiz) and accepted as reviewed by the operator.

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署名与许可

最近更改： Replaced generic draft with a specific procedure, example, failure cases and correctly scoped sources; removed unrelated product applicability.