jThrottler

A client-side configurable API request throttler

• Does your application break Third Party API Rate Limits?
• Is your application unable to serve requests when the Rate Limit exceeds in the Third Party API?
• Does the Third Party API provide batch requests?

If the answers to the above questions is true, this project will help you solve the problem

Usage

Two classes can be used

1. Throttler
2. ThrottledClient (or optionally provide your own Function implementation or Lambda)

Steps:

Initialize a single instance of Throttler

Throttler<I, J> throttler = new Throttler.Builder<I, J>()
                .withPoisonPillRequest(POISON_PILL)
                .withThrottledClient(throttledClient)
                .withBatchRequestSizePerSecond(BATCH_REQUEST_SIZE_PER_SECOND)
                .build();

and start the Throttler instance in a thread.

• throttledClient is an instance of ThrottledClient or Function
• POISON_PILL is an instance of Throttler.Request<I> which will stop the throttling from the thread when received
• BATCH_REQUEST_SIZE_PER_SECOND is the size for which you want to batch your requests for per second

Use the Throttler.add() method to add requests to throttle. ThrottleClient should have the implementation of calling the Third Party API in Bulk, and converting the Bulk response into individual Throttler.Response objects. Response is available from the Throttler.read() method to read; ensure that you Throttler.remove it from the queue if the Throttler.Response.requestId matches Throttler.Request.requestId.

Check the JUnit Tests for more information regarding usage.