Guava’s RateLimiter per minutes instead of seconds?

Question

I\'m trying to rate-limit the the number of accounts a user can create with my REST API.

I would have liked to use Guava\'s RateLimiter to only allow an IP

Answer 1

Our workaround for this is to create a RateLimiter class on our own and change the time units. For example, in our case, we want to make a daily rate limit.

Everything is the same as the RateLimiter except for the acquire(permits) function, where we changed the time unit in (double)TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMicros(1L) to the unit we desire. In our case, we change that into TimeUnit.Day for daily limits.

Then we create our own smooth RateLimiter and in the doSetRate(double permitsPerDay, long nowMicros) and doGetRate() function we also change the time unit.