Question about the new Rate limiting

[rbartholomay]

Hi,

currently playing with the new Rate-Limiting. In the docu there is following:

Support for multiple storage backends. Redis, PostgreSQL/MySQL and Memory.

Is "Memory" really supported? I only found configs for Redis and MySQL...

Have a great day!

René

[Barbapapazes]

Yes, it's could be an error? Because in code, only Redis and DB is shown!

But, you can use SQLite (supported in Adonis)

SQLite in-memory databases are databases stored entirely in memory, not on disk. Source 1 Source 2

[Barbapapazes]

Ah, maybe! Only @thetutlage know this.

[thetutlage]

Nope, there is going to be a memory driver that can mainly be used during testing. I expected to work on it right after the initial release, but got delayed.

[maximehuylebroeck]

Nope, there is going to be a memory driver that can mainly be used during testing. I expected to work on it right after the initial release, but got delayed.

I created a PR for this already :) (adonisjs/limiter#1)
Was a quick proposal as I mainly wanted it as a mock for testing, but it could be edited so we can use it as a normal in memory driver but there will be a caveat for users that deploy with clustering. Because obviously they will all have different memory pools. If we want to support that we need to add the cluster driver as well.

[thetutlage]

Unless there is a real need. I will not expose the memory driver to be in normal configuration. In prod, one should be using Redis mainly.

[maximehuylebroeck]

Could be helpful in the development phase though, anyways I have it ready in a branch if someone wants the in memory driver.