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Table of Contents
- About
- Usage
- Examples
- Related Projects and References
- Ideas and Future Work
- CI Status
- Code of Conduct
- Issues
- Contributing
- Release History
- Authors
- License
A rate limiter using a fixed window counter for arbitrary keys, backed by Redis.
About
This library provides a fixed window counter for arbitrary keys backed by a Redis instance. The period length and per-period maximum limit are configurable on setup. The communication with the backend is performing in a non-blocking, asynchronous fashion allowing the library to pair with other async frameworks such as Tokio, Actix, etc.
Note: Currently pre-async/await Futures are used (that is Futures 0.1.x) but that may be upgraded in the near future as the Rust 1.39.0 release is near.
Usage
Add limitation
to your Cargo.toml
:
[dependencies]
limitation = "0.1.1"
Quick Example
The primary type is the Limiter
which uses a builder to construct itself.
Once built, use the count
method with a key representing a user, a session,
an interaction, etc. Note that count
is a Future and therefore has to be
driving to completion with a runtime. For example, to run one count on a key of
"10.0.0.5"
:
use limitation::Limiter;
use futures::Future;
// Build a Limiter with a default rate with a local running Redis instance
let limiter = Limiter::build("redis://127.0.0.1/").finish()?;
// The key to count and track
let key = "10.0.0.5";
// Start and run a Tokio runtime to drive the Future to completion
tokio::run(
limiter
// Count returns a Status if the key is under the limit and an `Error::LimitExceeded`
// containing a Status if the limit has been exceeded
.count(key)
// This example deals with both limit exceeded and any Redis connection issues. In this
// case we'll print the error to the standard error stream to show the current limit
// status
.map_err(|err| eprintln!("err: {}", err))
// In this case we are under the limit and can print out the limit status to the
// standard output stream
.and_then(|status| {
println!("ok: {:?}", status);
Ok(())
}),
);
The Limiter Builder
The builder for the Limiter
has 2 settings which can be customized to the use
case:
limit
: The high water mark for number of requests in the period. The default is5000
.period
: ADuration
for the period window. The default is 60 minutes.
use limitation::Limiter;
use std::time::Duration;
let limiter = Limiter::build("redis://127.0.0.1/")
.limit(5)
.period(Duration::from_secs(10))
.finish()?;
Examples
A simple example that uses this library can be found in limitation-example.
Related Projects and References
The primary inspiration for the implementation was a blog post called An alternative approach to building a simple API Rate limiter using NodeJS and Redis by Atul R.
Other research and references used for this library:
- https://nordicapis.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-api-rate-limiting/
- https://hechao.li/2018/06/25/Rate-Limiter-Part1/
- https://www.figma.com/blog/an-alternative-approach-to-rate-limiting/
- https://engagor.github.io/blog/2017/05/02/sliding-window-rate-limiter-redis/
Ideas and Future Work
These are some ideas and potential future work for this project. If you're reading this then maybe you're curious or interesting in helping out? Great! Be sure to check out the Contributing section and dig in!
- Investigate and offer alternative rate-limiting algorithms, notably a Sliding Window solution.
- Add async Redis connection pooling with the
bb8
andbb8-redis
crates to reduce connection establishment delays. - Add a
status
method onLimiter
which returns they key'sStatus
without counting a request. - Add
RedisServer
support in an integration testing suite, similar to the infrastructure in the redis crate.
CI Status
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Code of Conduct
This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to fnichol@nichol.ca.
Issues
If you have any problems with or questions about this project, please contact us through a GitHub issue.
Contributing
You are invited to contribute to new features, fixes, or updates, large or small; we are always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do our best to process them as fast as we can.
Before you start to code, we recommend discussing your plans through a GitHub issue, especially for more ambitious contributions. This gives other contributors a chance to point you in the right direction, give you feedback on your design, and help you find out if someone else is working on the same thing.
Release History
See the changelog for a full release history.
Authors
Created and maintained by Fletcher Nichol (fnichol@nichol.ca).
License
Licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 (LICENSE.txt).
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the MPL-2.0 license, shall be licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
Dependencies
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~162K SLoC