I have a method that sends notifications on my NoticeController.

The problem is that it cannot detect if the API endpoint is called multiple times (e.g. double form submission from client) or if a notification is sent to the student. It results in duplicate records on the database when I only need to insert once.

 public function sendStudentNotice(Request $request, Registrant $registrant){

        $validated = $request->validate([
            'type' => 'required|in:success,error,warning,info',
            'message' => 'required|string'
        ]);

        //This is inserting new record each call
        $registrant->enrollmentLogs()->create($validated);

        return response()->json(['message' => 'A notice has been sent successfully!']);
    }

It would be better if I could protect all store and update methods on the controller to prevent such problems.