ribs_limiter 1.0.0-dev.1

A rate limiter that can be used with ribs_effect IO type.

ribs_limiter

ribs_limiter is a purely functional rate limiter for Dart, built on top of ribs_effect's IO type. It allows you to control the rate and concurrency of job execution while preserving the composability and resource-safety guarantees of the ribs_effect ecosystem.

Full documentation is available at the ribs website.

Key Features

• Rate Limiting: Enforce a minimum interval between job executions.
• Concurrency Control: Cap the number of jobs running simultaneously.
• Bounded Queue: Optionally limit the number of pending jobs, raising LimitReachedException when the queue is full.
• Priority Scheduling: Submit jobs with a priority; higher-priority jobs are dequeued first.
• Dynamic Configuration: Adjust minInterval and maxConcurrent at runtime without restarting.
• Cancellation-Safe: Canceling a submitted job removes it from the queue (if not yet running) or cancels the underlying fiber.
• Resource-Safe: The limiter is exposed as a Resource<Limiter>, ensuring the background executor fiber is always cleaned up.

Usage

Creating a Limiter

Limiter.start returns a Resource<Limiter>. The limiter's background executor fiber runs for the lifetime of the resource.

import 'package:ribs_effect/ribs_effect.dart';
import 'package:ribs_limiter/ribs_limiter.dart';

final program = Limiter.start(
  const Duration(milliseconds: 100), // minimum interval between jobs
  maxConcurrent: 2,                  // at most 2 jobs running at once
  maxQueued: 50,                     // reject new jobs when 50 are pending
).use((limiter) {
  // submit jobs inside the resource scope
  return limiter.submit(IO.print('hello'));
});

Submitting Jobs

submit wraps any IO<A> and returns an IO<A> that completes when the job finishes executing.

final result = await Limiter.start(Duration(milliseconds: 50)).use((limiter) {
  return limiter.submit(IO.pure(42));
}).unsafeRunFuture();

print(result); // 42

Priority Scheduling

Jobs with a higher priority value are dequeued before lower-priority jobs when a slot becomes available.

limiter.submit(lowPriorityTask, priority: 0);
limiter.submit(highPriorityTask, priority: 10); // runs first

Bounded Queue

When maxQueued is set, submitting a job to a full queue raises LimitReachedException.

final safe = limiter
    .submit(myJob)
    .handleError((e) => e is LimitReachedException ? fallbackValue : throw e);

Inspecting State

final pending = await limiter.pending.unsafeRunFuture();
final interval = await limiter.minInterval.unsafeRunFuture();
final concurrency = await limiter.maxConcurrent.unsafeRunFuture();

Dynamic Reconfiguration

The interval and concurrency limit can be changed while the limiter is running.

// slow down under load
await limiter.setMinInterval(const Duration(milliseconds: 500)).unsafeRunFuture();

// scale back concurrency
await limiter.updateMaxConcurrent((n) => n ~/ 2).unsafeRunFuture();

Example

See a complete working example in example/example.dart.