IsCommitted

IsCommitted is a boolean flag often used in software systems to indicate that a particular operation or set of operations has been finalized and recorded in a durable store or acknowledged by a peer. When true, the work is considered completed; when false, it remains in progress, pending, or unacknowledged. The exact semantics depend on the domain and implementation.

In database transactions, a transaction’s committed state means that all its operations have been durably recorded and the changes are visible to other transactions. A transaction starts uncommitted, and a successful commit sets isCommitted to true. If the transaction fails, it is rolled back, leaving isCommitted as false.

In messaging and event processing, isCommitted can indicate that a message or offset has been acknowledged as processed. Depending on the system, committing may support at-least-once or exactly-once delivery guarantees and influence retry behavior and failure recovery.

In object-relational mappings and unit-of-work patterns, a transaction or session may expose an isCommitted flag to prevent further writes to the same unit of work or to signal that the work has been validated for persistence.

In distributed systems, committing can be part of broader protocols such as two-phase commit or consensus mechanisms; the isCommitted flag can show that the system has reached agreement to persist the changes.

Common considerations include thread-safety, visibility across threads, and the implications for resource lifecycle. Once committed, many designs constrain further modification of the associated work, though some systems allow continuation by starting a new transaction.