Migration from node-rate-limiter package: Using RateLimiterQueue with BurstyRateLimiter?

Hi

In the documentation for BurstyRateLimiter it claims All limiters from this package can be used for BurstyRateLimiter creation. However, if you try to construct one with RateLimiterQueue it fails because it doesn’t adhere to the necessary interface.

I am trying to migrate from TokenBucket from the https://github.com/jhurliman/node-rate-limiter package. This behaves in such a way that you can burst but also has an outstanding request queue so you can await on the calls for the bucket to refill.

I want to take the FIFO logic & promise awaits from RateLimiterQueue but the burst of BurstyRateLimiter.

Without writing a wrapper this currently is not achievable.

KR

[animir]

This wasn’t possible with BurstyRateLimiter because it would add a large chunk of tokens at a designated time rather than drip feed as a token bucket would do.

I understand you need it to be re-filled in small chunks. You could try to create a limiter with long duration like 14 days and re-fill 1 point every second with setTimeout using reward function, but not sure if it is worth it.

[animir]

@dt-atkinson I think, it can be. There is an example in docs here