Choose atomic or partial bulk semantics for dependent items
Some imports contain parent and child catalog records, making arbitrary independent item processing unsafe.
- Focused work estimate
- 5h + prerequisites
- Priority in the scenario
- High
- Engineering practice
- API architecture · Tradeoffs
Estimated field mix
- System design40%
- API design40%
- Database engineering20%
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Project context
A fictional catalog API needs to accept imports too large for one synchronous request. Partners need to distinguish accepted work, completed items, and recoverable failures.
Setup prerequisites
- Create a local API and worker double with synthetic catalog records and controlled interruption points.
Preceding work
Complete these dependencies, or supply their agreed outputs before taking this ticket.
- BAPIBULK-101 · Define the difference between accepted and completed bulk work
- BAPIBULK-102 · Bound bulk request size and record counts before admission
- BAPIBULK-103 · Create bulk operations with tenant-scoped idempotency
- BAPIBULK-104 · Return per-item problems without exposing other tenant records
- BAPIBULK-105 · Checkpoint item progress without changing retry outcomes
- BAPIBULK-106 · Define cancellation after some items have committed
- BAPIBULK-107 · Paginate bulk item outcomes with stable ordering
- BAPIBULK-108 · Expose progress that does not imply unobserved completion
Acceptance criteria
- Define the supported dependency boundary.
- Compare whole-request atomicity, ordered groups, and independent items.
- Document transaction, recovery, and client complexity tradeoffs.
Implementation constraints
- Bound the decision to the synthetic catalog use case.
Verification to include
- Import a valid parent-child group.
- Reject or explicitly report a missing-parent group under the chosen semantics.
Deliverables
- Bulk semantics decision record.
Rollout and recovery
Start with the smallest supported grouping and reject unsupported dependency patterns.
Value of the work
For the engineer: Practice asynchronous resource contracts, partial outcomes, and idempotent operations.
For the team: Provide predictable bulk integration behavior without ambiguous success or repeated effects.
Evidence boundaries
Outcome Evidence: Tests, patches, and runbooks are requested deliverables. They become Outcome Evidence only through a qualified Mission and immutable Evidence IDs.
Ownership Evidence: Independent adaptation must be observed under a declared verification policy and cite immutable Evidence IDs. Completing a planning ticket establishes no Ownership Evidence.