Coding (Platform)

Spring: Enforce idempotent operations for Kafka consumer command handling

An operational alert points to a contract bug that appears only under mixed production data. The affected area is Kafka consumer.

Repair the Kafka consumer command handling implementation so it accepts first operations, recognizes safe repeats, and rejects key reuse with a different payload.

Evidence

Affected surface: Spring / Kafka consumer.
Observed failure family: enforce idempotent operations.
Scope policy: retained must equal true.

What this task practices

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