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Functional Stream Processing

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Problem

SberPay receives a collection of payment operations. Build a functional processing pipeline that keeps only completed operations meeting an amount threshold and belonging to an allowed category, then transforms and ranks the results.

Implement process_operations(operations, min_amount, allowed_categories).

Formal Specification

  • operations is a list of dictionaries. Each dictionary contains:
    • id: a unique string
    • amount: a non-negative number
    • status: a string such as "completed" or "declined"
    • category: a string
  • min_amount is a non-negative number. The threshold is inclusive.
  • allowed_categories is a list of strings.
  • Return a new list of dictionaries containing only id, amount, and category.
  • Include operations where status == "completed", amount >= min_amount, and category is allowed.
  • Sort the result by decreasing amount. For equal amounts, sort by increasing id.
  • Do not modify the input list or its dictionaries. Use functional stream operations such as filter, map, and sorted.

Constraints

  • 0 <= len(operations) <= 10^5
  • 0 <= operation.amount, min_amount <= 10^9
  • Each operation contains id, amount, status, and category
  • Operation identifiers are unique strings

Function Signature

def process_operations(operations, min_amount, allowed_categories):
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