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What a Live API session is

Practice: What a Live API session is

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Your assignment

Draw the session state machine including permission denial, connection failure and user stop.

Work through it

  1. Start from the scenario below and write the expected behavior before changing code. If this is a design exercise, produce a diagram or decision table; for an implementation exercise, create a small reproducible project or test fixture.
  2. Address each of these decisions explicitly: Bidirectional interaction, Model capability selection, Session ownership. Record the assumptions that influence your choices.
  3. Reproduce the ordinary case and the failure described in the scenario. Use controlled inputs or fake dependencies where a live service would make the result unpredictable.
  4. Compare the observed result with your expected behavior. Fix the underlying decision or implementation when they differ; do not change the expected outcome merely to hide a failure.
  5. Save the evidence and explain what remains unverified. A simulated service failure demonstrates application handling, but does not establish real-device or provider compatibility.

Scenario to test

The socket connects successfully but the microphone is denied. The session is connected, not listening; the UI must communicate that distinction.

Completion criteria

Your design separates connection state from microphone and playback state.

Submit the diagram or relevant code, the inputs used, the observed result and a short explanation of the tradeoff. Include at least one ordinary case and one boundary or failure case.

Review your work

  • Could another learner reproduce the result from your notes?
  • Does the evidence prove the completion criterion, or only that a tool ran?
  • Which assumption would change your design if it proved false?

Continue only when you can explain the result independently. The final project will combine these decisions.

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