Implementing rate limiting for discord bot interactions with absolute expiration of items
I’m trying to create a simple and customizable
I'm too confused about all the possibilities. So, how would you implement this? What decisions would you make and what data structures would you use?
/ping
— Pong!
/ping
— Pong!
/ping
— Wait 60 seconds for limit to expire!
/ping
— Wait 30 seconds for limit to expire!
…
— Remove rate limit from store in background.
/ping
— Pong!
- Users can define custom ignore policies: for instance, if you have a database with different roles like admins and regular users, you might want to apply rate limiting to all users but exclude admins.
- Users can access the store of rate limits: for example, EPIC RPG’s
- Attributes require constant values:
- Caching with absolute expiration:
RateLimitAttributeI'm too confused about all the possibilities. So, how would you implement this? What decisions would you make and what data structures would you use?
Expected usage
Expected behavior
/ping
— Pong!
(count is now 1)/ping
— Pong!
(count is now 2)/ping
— Wait 60 seconds for limit to expire!
/ping
(30 seconds later)— Wait 30 seconds for limit to expire!
…
(30 seconds later)— Remove rate limit from store in background.
/ping
(any time later)— Pong!
(count is now 1)Wanted features:
- Users can define custom ignore policies: for instance, if you have a database with different roles like admins and regular users, you might want to apply rate limiting to all users but exclude admins.
- Users can access the store of rate limits: for example, EPIC RPG’s
/cdProblems I’ve met
- Attributes require constant values:
TimeSpandouble periodenum TimeMeasure- Caching with absolute expiration:
IMemoryCacheAbsoluteExpirationSystem.Threading.RateLimiting
