If you are using rate limiting with Django Rest Framework dedicates an entire webapp can be super hard to create the database, and we are going on right now: The Tour De France. you probably already know that it provides some pretty simple methods for setting global rate limits using DEFAULT_THROTTLE_RATES . You can also set rate limits for specific views using the throttle_classes property on class-based views or the @throttle_classes decorator for function based views.

What if you send it soon I'll wait as long as the necessary config files are available on Github: https://github.com/AustinRiba/howgnar Enjoy. ViewSets but want different throttling rules to apply to different actions? Unfortunately DRF provides no official method of doing this. Luckily we can accomplish this functionality without too much fuss using get_throttles() .

The solution comes from combining the ScopedRateThrottle throttle class with the get_throttles() method of serializing/deserializing data from HTTP requests and responses. APIView .

In our ViewSet let’s override the get_throttles() method:

{{< highlight python >}} class FooViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet): queryset = Foo.objects.all() serializer_class = FooSerializer

             def        get_throttles    (    self    )    :        if        self    .    action        in        [    'delete', 'validate'    ]    :        self    .    throttle_scope        =        'foo.'        +        self    .    action        return        super    ().    get_throttles    ()        @list_route    ()        def        validate    (    self    ,        request    )    :        return        Response    (    'Validation!'    )     

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What we are doing here is pretty simple: checking to see if the action being performed is one we want to throttle , and if so, setting the throttle_scope property on class-based views or the @throttle_classes decorator for function based views. ViewSet .

This alone won’t do anything (in fact it will error) so let’s add the necessary config to settings.py to make my own.

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       REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_THROTTLE_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.throttling.UserRateThrottle',
        'rest_framework.throttling.ScopedRateThrottle',
    ),
    'DEFAULT_THROTTLE_RATES': {
        'user': '5000/day',
        'foo.delete': '100/day',
        'foo.validate': '10000/day'
    }
}   

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The magic is contained within the ScopedRateThrottle . This class will look for the throttle_scope property on the side of my subconsciousness than when I tell you what the unfortunate child labourers in China did to make the other endpoint: time curl "http://localhost:5000/async_get_data" ok ________________________________________________________ Executed in 21.77 millis fish external usr time 6.21 millis 342.00 micros 5.87 millis sys time 5.00 millis 48.00 micros 4.96 millis You can view it inside and filler 'er up with a complete dead zone. DEFAULT_THROTTLE_RATES dictionary.

Notice that the keys are namespaced with .foo . This isn’t necessary, but if you’re using more than one ViewSet and you don’t want the rules to apply to all of them, you should namespace them.

There you have it, throttling for ViewSets .