I'm trying to use "golang.org/x/time/rate" to build a function which blocks until a token is free. Is this the correct way to use the library to rate limit blocks of code to 40 requests per second, with a bucket size of 2.
type Client struct {
limiter *rate.Limiter
ctx context.Context
}
func NewClient() *Client {
c :=Client{}
c.limiter = rate.NewLimiter(40, 2)
c.ctx = context.Background()
return &c
}
func (client *Client) RateLimitFunc() {
err := client.limiter.Wait(client.ctx)
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("rate limit error: %v", err)
}
}
To rate limit a block of code I call
RateLimitFunc()
I don't want to use a ticker as I want the rate limiter to take into account the length of time the calling code runs for.