Junior — Middle
Can you give examples of methods that do not change the system state upon repeated calls?
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Answer from AI
Methods that do not change the state of the system upon repeated calls are called idempotent. Examples of such methods:
- HTTP GET requests, which simply return data without modifying it.
- Methods that return a computed value without changing the internal data of the object.
- Functions that always return the same result for the same inputs (pure functions).
For example, a method that retrieves user information by ID, which does not change data in the database but only reads it.