Description

Implementation of the Governor rate limiter for Rocket web framework.

Rate limiting is used to control the rate requests are received and handled by an endpoint of the web application or web service.

Rocket specific features

Define as many rate limits with Quota of Governor as you like and need in your Rocket web application/service.
It is implemented as a Rocket Request Guard and provides also an implementation of an Error Catcher.
The Error Catcher can be registered on any path to handle Status::TooManyRequests and provide HTTP headers in the response.

Usage

Add dependencies to rocket-governor crate to your Cargo.toml.

Implement RocketGovernable for a guard struct as you like:

use rocket_governor::{Method, Quota, RocketGovernable, RocketGovernor};

pub struct RateLimitGuard;

impl<'r> RocketGovernable<'r> for RateLimitGuard {
    fn quota(_method: Method, _route_name: &str) -> Quota {
        Quota::per_second(Self::nonzero(1u32))
    }
}

This requires to implement the method fn quota(_: Method, _: &str) -> Quota.
You can vary your Quota on any combination of method and route_name, but the returned Quota should be a static-like. It should not change between invocations of the quota()-method with equal parameters.

There is a small helper function nonzero(u32) for creating Quotas in your quota()-implementation e.g.:

    Quota::per_second(Self::nonzero(1u32))

After implementing the minimal requirements of trait RocketGovernable you can add your Guard to your route-methods like:

#[get("/")]
fn route_test(_limitguard: RocketGovernor<RateLimitGuard>) -> Status {
    Status::Ok
}

Register Catcher

To handle HTTP Status 429 TooManyRequests there is an catcher-function implementation.

It is called rocket_governor_catcher.

Register it with register(<path>, <catchers>)-method of Rocket:

use rocket_governor::rocket_governor_catcher;

#[launch]
fn launch_rocket() -> _ {
    rocket::build()
        .mount("/", routes![route_test])
        .register("/", catchers!(rocket_governor_catcher))
}

Optional feature limit_info

There is the optional feature limit_info which enables reporting about rate limits in HTTP headers of requests.

The implementation is based on headers of https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-httpapi-ratelimit-headers

The feature provides a default implementation of a Rocket fairing which need to be used to get the HTTP headers set.

See API documentation for LimitHeaderGen.

For usage depend on it in Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
rocket-governor = { version = "...", features = ["limit_info"] }

Optional feature logger

There is the optional feature logger which enables some logging output.

For usage depend on it in Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
rocket-governor = { version = "...", features = ["logger"] }

Additional information

To understand the basics of Rocket, please visit the Rocket Guide:

• https://rocket.rs/v0.5/guide/requests/#request-guards
• https://rocket.rs/v0.5/guide/requests/#error-catchers

Licenses

You can choose between MIT License or Apache License 2.0.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023 Markus Kolb

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Apache License 2.0

Copyright 2023 Markus Kolb

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

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