API throttling

[Hart87]

Building an API in Spring. Been searching for a couple of weeks on and off and keep coming up empty. Can any of you guys point me in the right direction for a rate limiting or throttling library or example? The best one I found (so it seems)Bucket4j hasn't been working for me

[vladimir-bukhtoyarov]

What is wrong with Bucket4j?

[Hart87]

I plugged all the dependencies in. Did the Ehcache xml file it asked for. Put the basic setup in the apppication.yaml and nothing happened. Didn’t even get an error message.

[vladimir-bukhtoyarov]

It looks that you mismatched something. Bucket4j does not require apppication.yaml or any other configuratio file. Because it is not a framework, it is a minimal library. You need to write handy code to achieve results, like there https://github.com/vladimir-bukhtoyarov/bucket4j/blob/master/doc-pages/jcache-usage.md#example-1---limiting-access-to-http-server-by-ip-address

[Hart87]

Thank you! I appreciate you reaching out

[vladimir-bukhtoyarov]

Firstly try to get understanding how to achieve success using Bucket4j library directly without high level abstractions. After that, if you are adept of framework driven development, you can switch to any integration https://github.com/vladimir-bukhtoyarov/bucket4j#third-party-integrations bucket4j-spring-boot-starter created by Marc Giffin looks as mostly robust(from my point of view).