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Vending Machine

Atomic purchase and credit ownership

Ownership and transitions

A purchase changes stock and credit together. Check item existence, stock, and payment before applying either mutation. Refund captures then clears credit, preventing double refunds. A catalog snapshot must copy each nested item, not only its outer object. Expected selection cost is O(1); an inventory snapshot costs O(products).

JavaScript boundaries

Use native classes with per-instance state and plain object/array snapshots. Object assignment shares a reference; copy retained inputs and every outward mutable container, including nested arrays. null means absence. Map handles arbitrary string keys safely, including "__proto__"; do not confuse a missing key with zero or an empty string. Domain validation uses RangeError. Numeric inputs must satisfy Number.isSafeInteger, so booleans, fractions, infinities, and NaN are invalid where an integer is required. All documented aggregate results and timestamp-plus-duration sums fit the safe-integer range. Strings use exact case-sensitive equality; lexical order compares JavaScript UTF-16 code units. Calls are serialized and synchronous.

JavaScript
const internal = ["initial"];
const snapshot = [...internal];
snapshot.length = 0;
console.assert(internal.length === 1);

A detached snapshot protects ownership; the service still has to validate and commit a coherent transition.

Put it into practice

Implement the exercise in a full-screen workspace, then run its tests.

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