Ability to limit requests per user, quotas

[samwiseg0]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The ability to limit the amount of requests a particular user can make. This could be done on a per user basis or another thought would be to create permission groups that would have the limits set. That would make it easier to manage multiple users at once vs changing it per user individually.

Describe the solution you'd like
To have limits that are imposed per user/group. User feedback of their limits would also be necessary. Currently Ombi does a rolling 7 day request rate. Not sure if you would want to implement the same or have that be configurable. Other options could be x day rolling and x number per month.

[ankarhem]

What do you think of this spec? @sct @samwiseg0

Permission groups:
Users with settings permission can create/modify/delete them.
Users with user management permission can assign users a permission group.
If a permission group is deleted and a user had that permission group, it falls back on the permissions that are set for the user.
A permission group contains what permissions they have, and a quota.
Making user specific changes to quota / permissions will override the ones in the permission group.
Reapplying a permission group to a user will reset any user specific quota / permission settings.

Quotas:
Both the duration and number of requests are configurable.
A rolling quota. This means that the comparison is made for the previous X day period.
When the quota is maxed, a dialog window is presented when trying to request an item explaining that they have maxed out their quota.

[TheCatLady]

Is the common user really going to have so many users that permission groups are necessary? I feel like a default quota option would be sufficient for all but those who are hosting paid Plex shares...

Especially with the Bulk Edit feature, I don't think that permission groups are necessary.

[sct]

I kind of agree with @TheCatLady here. At least for the initial version of this. A configurable default rolling period and quotas. Then the ability to modify those per user (or bulk edit them).

I do like the idea of permission groups but the amount of work that will have to go into that versus just focusing on quotas is pretty immense. Let's get the feature out and look at maybe rolling them into groups in the future.

[ankarhem]

Sounds good. But otherwise functionality wise we are in agreement? If so the quota can go into the beta roadmap and permission groups can come after that.

[samwiseg0]

Permission groups:
Users with settings permission can create/modify/delete them.
Users with user management permission can assign users a permission group.
If a permission group is deleted and a user had that permission group, it falls back on the permissions that are set for the user.
A permission group contains what permissions they have, and a quota.
Making user specific changes to quota / permissions will override the ones in the permission group.
Reapplying a permission group to a user will reset any user specific quota / permission settings.

I agree with @sct and @TheCatLady. This can be a later down the road option. I just thought this would be nice for those that have quite a few users. For example, I don't impose limits on my family members or when I do they are much higher than other users. Doing that in one place would be a nice to have feature.

Quotas:
Both the duration and number of requests are configurable.

Yes

A rolling quota. This means that the comparison is made for the previous X day period.

Yes

When the quota is maxed, a dialog window is presented when trying to request an item explaining that they have maxed out their quota.

Yes. They should be able to see what they have available in their user page as well.

[ankarhem]

Can you assign this to me?

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