Reliability · REPRODUCIBLE GUIDE

Async Image Generation API Polling with Bounded Backoff

Poll asynchronous image-generation jobs with bounded backoff, terminal-state handling, timeouts, and durable request metadata.

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WHY THIS GUIDE EXISTS

Test the workflow,
not the marketing claim.

Long-running image jobs need a polling loop that distinguishes queued, running, completed, failed, and expired states while limiting unnecessary requests and preserving enough metadata to resume safely after a worker restart.

Ecommerce

Ceramic skincare hero

Editorial product photograph of a matte ceramic skincare bottle on pale limestone, soft north-window light, delicate contact shadow, warm neutral palette, 85mm lens compression, no text, no logo.
Clean premium product hero1:1
Ecommerce

Running shoe impact

Technical running shoe frozen above a red clay track at impact, fine dust particles suspended in air, directional hard sunlight, visible outsole detail, energetic diagonal composition, commercial sports photography.
Dynamic footwear campaign4:5
Architecture

Coastal house at dusk

Low modern coastal house at blue hour, weathered cedar and board-formed concrete, dune grasses moving in sea wind, warm interior light, realistic architectural photography, human-scale lens.
Exterior visualization16:9
PYTHON QUICKSTART

Keep the request reproducible.

Store credentials in the environment. Record the exact model identifier, dimensions, test date, and retry count with the resulting asset.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
  api_key=os.environ["APIMART_API_KEY"],
  base_url="https://api.apimart.ai/v1",
)

result = client.images.generate(
  model="gpt-image-1-official",
  prompt=PROMPT,
  size="1024x1024",
  n=1,
)
REVIEW CHECKLIST

Before you publish a result