###What does this do? This library is primarily designed for APIs that wish to limit how many requests a client can make over a given period of time. In theory it can be used to throttle any kind of behavior. If you find a neat use case, we'd love to hear about it!
At a basic level, you have a strategy, which is just a class that implements a specific rate-limiting policy. Strategies operate on buckets which maintain the state for any given identity. The bucket contains tokens which are replenished periodically. When a bucket has no more tokens to give, the identity has run up against the rate limit and should be stopped.
Let's use a practical example. Say you have an API endpoint /foo and you want to limit it so that any given IP address may only access /foo 1 time per hour.
In this case, the IP address is the identity. We'll employ a TimeBlockStrategy to implement the policy we want. Ignore the reference to a bucket repository for the moment. It will be explained later.
use Burdette\Identities\StringIdentity;
use Burdette\Strategies\TimeBlockStrategy;
$identity = new StringIdentity($client_ip);
$strategy = new TimeBlockStrategy($bucket_repository);
$strategy->setReplenishmentRate(100, TimeBlockStrategy::HOURLY);
$token = $strategy->newToken($identity);
echo $token->isAllowed() . "\n";
echo $strategy->getNextReplenishmentTime();
$new_token = $strategy->newToken($identity);
echo $token->isAllowed() . "\n";
echo $strategy->getNextReplenishmentTime();Running this code we should see something like...
true
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false
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