PRODUCTION SCENARIO
Aldergate's intake service requests a strict structured object for insurance claims. On a small share of documents the response carries a refusal instead of the claim object, and the parser throws.
Which check should the client make before reading the claim fields?
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Answer: Branch on the refusal property before reading any business field value
A refusal is a separate, programmatically detectable outcome: the output carries a refusal property in place of the requested object, so the client branches on that before touching any business field. A refused response still completes, so status says nothing useful; output_text can be empty for a truncated response as well as a refused one; and a parse failure is a symptom shared with truncation rather than a cause.
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