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How do you design a system that handles partial API failures gracefully in iOS?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
You design for partial success by modeling responses as composable states instead of binary success/failure.
Deep explanation
Real-world APIs often return mixed results (some data succeeds, some fails). Instead of failing the entire request, systems should return partial success models, allowing UI to render available data while retrying failed components independently. This requires fine-grained error modeling.
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