Avoiding Duplicate Notification Messages | Dataford Interview Questions

Implement a function to simulate push notifications for team members while preventing duplicate messages. Each notification contains a member ID, message ID, and message text. Return the notifications delivered in input order, keeping only the first notification for each member and message ID pair. Use def simulate_notifications(notifications):, where notifications is a list of dictionaries and the result has the same format.

Constraints

0 <= len(notifications) <= 1000
Each notification contains the string keys member_id, message_id, and message
member_id and message_id are non-empty strings
message is a string
Return notifications in the order of their first occurrence
Duplicate detection uses the pair (member_id, message_id)

Function Signature

def simulate_notifications(notifications):

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Problem

Constraints

0 <= len(notifications) <= 1000
Each notification contains the string keys member_id, message_id, and message
member_id and message_id are non-empty strings
message is a string
Return notifications in the order of their first occurrence
Duplicate detection uses the pair (member_id, message_id)

Function Signature

def simulate_notifications(notifications):

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