Facilitating secure and efficient communication between synchronous and asynchronous applications

Abstract

There is provided an interface module for facilitating communication with a synchronous application programming interface, the module being configured to: generate or receive a message to be sent to the synchronous API; and determine whether or not the synchronous API has an idempotency check; wherein upon determining that the synchronous API has an idempotency check, the module is further configured to: perform no idempotency check; and send the message to the synchronous API, and wherein upon determining that the synchronous API does not have an idempotency check, the module is further configured to: perform an idempotency check; and send the message to the synchronous API if the message passes the idempotency check or not send the message to the synchronous API if the message fails the idempotency check.

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