Rate limiting

[sckott]

Creating a general purpose rate limiting helper would be useful i think. Aspects:

• Arguments:
  • value - Limit value (e.g., 100)
  • period - Per time frame (e.g. sec, min, hr, day)
  • on_limit - what to do when limit reached? (see below)
  • May need extra arguments depending on API
• on_limit -
  • stop - and give error message to use
  • warn - and give error message to use
  • queue - and give max time to wait in queue (if R session quits this queue gone)

[sckott]

There is server side rate limiting, which is intertwined with this

[sckott]

use cases

• user say what rate limits are, and thats it - then we check rate limit info if given for them, if not sadface
• user say what rate limits are, and user set some limit < than max limit
• user specify do something specific on hitting rate limit e.g, give warning or wait a certain amount of time before proceeding

[sckott]

moving to next milestone, trying to get MVP out #10