@convex-dev/rate-limiter
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A rate limiter component for Convex. Define and use application-layer rate limits. Type-safe, transactional, fair, safe, and configurable sharding to scale.
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JavaScript
import { ConvexError } from "convex/values";
import { calculateRateLimit, } from "../shared.js";
// If there are only two shards, it's not really worth checking them both
// since it'd introduce a read dependency on all shards anyways.
export const MIN_CHOOSE_TWO = 3;
export async function checkRateLimitOrThrow(db, args) {
const result = await checkRateLimitSharded(db, args);
if (result.status.retryAfter && args.throws) {
throw new ConvexError({
kind: "RateLimited",
name: args.name,
retryAfter: result.status.retryAfter,
});
}
return result;
}
async function checkRateLimitSharded(db, args) {
validateRequest(args);
const unshardedConfig = configWithDefaults(args.config);
const { shards } = unshardedConfig;
const config = shardConfig(unshardedConfig, shards);
const shardArgs = { ...args, config };
const one = await checkShard(db, shardArgs, Math.floor(Math.random() * shards));
if (!one.existing || shards < MIN_CHOOSE_TWO)
return returnSingle(one);
// Find another shard to check
const two = await checkShard(db, shardArgs, (one.shard + 1 + Math.floor(Math.random() * (shards - 1))) % shards);
if (one.status.ok && !two.status.ok) {
return returnSingle(one);
}
else if (!one.status.ok && two.status.ok) {
return returnSingle(two);
}
else if (one.status.ok && two.status.ok) {
return returnSingle(one.value > two.value ? one : two);
}
if (one.status.ok || two.status.ok) {
throw new Error("Unreachable");
}
// Neither worked out on their own. Try combined.
const count = args.count ?? 1;
// Adding count since it was subtracted from both values.
const balance = one.value + two.value + count;
const oneShared = _checkRateLimitInternal(one.existing, config,
// Calculated so they both end up with the same value, to help balance.
one.value + count - balance / 2, args.reserve);
const twoShared = _checkRateLimitInternal(two.existing, config, two.value + count - balance / 2, args.reserve);
if (!oneShared.status.ok && !twoShared.status.ok) {
// Still didn't work, wait until there's enough combined capacity.
return {
status: {
ok: false,
retryAfter: Math.max(oneShared.status.retryAfter, twoShared.status.retryAfter),
},
updates: [],
};
}
// Rare / impossible for one to be ok and another not - maybe float rounding?
const ok = oneShared.status.ok && twoShared.status.ok;
const updates = ok
? [
{
value: oneShared.value,
ts: oneShared.ts,
existing: one.existing,
shard: one.shard,
},
{
value: twoShared.value,
ts: twoShared.ts,
existing: two.existing,
shard: two.shard,
},
]
: [];
if (!oneShared.status.retryAfter && !twoShared.status.retryAfter) {
// It succeeded without any reserve capacity
return { status: { ok: true, retryAfter: undefined }, updates };
}
const retryAfter = Math.max(oneShared.status.retryAfter ?? 0, twoShared.status.retryAfter ?? 0);
return { status: { ok, retryAfter }, updates };
}
export function configWithDefaults(config) {
return {
...config,
shards: Math.round(config.shards || 1),
capacity: config.capacity ?? config.rate,
};
}
// Sanity check that this could ever be satisfied
function validateRequest(args) {
const config = configWithDefaults(args.config);
const { shards, capacity } = config;
if (shards <= 0) {
throw new Error("Shards must be a positive number");
}
const shardFactor = shards < MIN_CHOOSE_TWO ? 1 : shards / 2;
const max = capacity / shardFactor;
const count = args.count ?? 1;
if (args.reserve) {
if (config.maxReserved) {
const maxReserved = config.maxReserved / shardFactor;
if (count > max + maxReserved) {
throw new Error(`Rate limit ${args.name} count ${count} exceeds ${(max + maxReserved).toFixed(2)}` +
(shards > 1 ? ` per ${shards} shards.` : "."));
}
}
}
else if (count > max) {
throw new Error(`Rate limit ${args.name} count ${count} exceeds ${max}` +
(shards > 1 ? ` per ${shards} shards.` : "."));
}
}
function returnSingle(result) {
const { status, ...update } = result;
return { status, updates: status.ok ? [update] : [] };
}
async function checkShard(db, args, shard) {
const existing = await getShard(db, args.name, args.key, shard);
const { config, count, reserve } = args;
const result = _checkRateLimitInternal(existing, config, count, reserve);
return { ...result, shard, existing };
}
export async function getShard(db, name, key, shard) {
return db
.query("rateLimits")
.withIndex("name", (q) => q.eq("name", name).eq("key", key).eq("shard", shard))
.unique();
}
function shardConfig(config, shards) {
if (shards === 1)
return config;
const sharded = { ...config };
sharded.rate /= shards;
if (sharded.capacity) {
sharded.capacity /= shards;
}
if (sharded.maxReserved) {
sharded.maxReserved /= shards;
}
return sharded;
}
// exported for testing only
export function _checkRateLimitInternal(existing, config, count = 1, reserve = false) {
const now = Date.now();
const { value, ts, retryAfter } = calculateRateLimit(existing, config, now, count);
if (value < 0) {
if (!reserve || (config.maxReserved && -value > config.maxReserved)) {
return {
status: { ok: false, retryAfter: retryAfter },
value,
ts,
};
}
}
return { status: { ok: true, retryAfter }, value, ts };
}
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