Hi,
I was hoping someone would have an answer to this question.
Does the apollo-datasource-rest package handle rate limits?
How does it do that?
Or how do you guys manage this using this package?
If I have an API endpoint that has a rate limit, how would I specify it in the datasource if possible?
Any help or guidance is appreciated, thanks!
AFAIK there are no rate limiting features provided by RestDataSource itself - either the backend remote services could do this (by returning HTTP 429’s to REST calls) or rate limiting should be thought about in terms of use of GraphQL queries & mutations rather than any backend services.
There are several npm packages that offer this kind of feature than can be integrated with Apollo server e.g. rate-limiter-flexible - npm, graphql-rate-limit-directive - npm
Hope this helps!
Thank you for your reply!
I am already using one of the rate limiter packages for mutations which works well.
The reason I was asking about the limiter, was because my GraphQL server sends API requests to an emailer service in order to send emails that are dispatched.
It is a result of a mutation but since I can’t predict how many concurrent users might hit this mutation at a time, I was hoping to hear how people handle this.
I just thought about this, would a setTimeout work?
Maybe I can add a setTimeout with await before sending the actual request.
I also noticed that there are 2 packages to handle rest API’s, which ones do people generally use?
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@Kheang_Hok_Chin We are using this: @apollo/datasource-rest - npm package | Snyk
The other one’s maintenance is inactive: apollo-datasource-http - npm Package Health Analysis | Snyk