feat(api): add per-workspace read limits and consistent 429 metadata (#829) - #840
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…829) Adds a read-side rate limiter, separate from the write, render, poster, and public-intake budgets, so an expensive read cannot exhaust a write allowance or vice versa. Two tiers: search, facets, by-path grouping, and a metadata-hydrated listing take the tighter one; an unhydrated listing (?metadata=0) and point reads take the looser one. Both are keyed by workspace and configured in wrangler.jsonc like every other limiter, and both fail open when their binding is absent. Every rate-limit 429 now carries retry metadata from one place: the error boundary emits the standard Retry-After alongside the existing X-Retry-After for compatibility, plus retry_after on the body. Limit/remaining/reset headers are deliberately not emitted -- a Cloudflare RateLimit binding reports only whether a request was allowed, so there is no accurate figure to publish. Refs #829 section 3.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe API adds workspace-keyed normal and tight read limiters. Routes classify read shapes before enforcement. Rate-limit errors now include standardized retry headers and Workspace read limiting
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This PR adds per-workspace read throttling and standardized 429 retry metadata. The legacy-listing classifier can apply the tighter limit to valid requests that are not hydrated, causing premature 429s, and the API type check currently exits nonzero while fetching runtime types. Merge should wait for the classification fix and a successful type check. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant WorkspaceRoute
participant ReadRateLimit
participant READ_LIMITER
participant HEAVY_READ_LIMITER
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Client->>WorkspaceRoute: send authenticated read request
WorkspaceRoute->>ReadRateLimit: classify request shape
ReadRateLimit->>READ_LIMITER: check normal workspace bucket
ReadRateLimit->>HEAVY_READ_LIMITER: check tight workspace bucket
ReadRateLimit-->>WorkspaceRoute: allow or reject
WorkspaceRoute->>respondError: serialize rejected request
respondError-->>Client: return 429 with retry metadata
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In `@apps/api/src/read-limits.ts`:
- Around line 112-116: Update classifyLegacyListingRead to assign the tight tier
only when metadata equals "1" or "true", matching the hydration condition in the
legacy listing route; keep name and meta.* handling unchanged. Add regression
coverage for metadata=true and an invalid metadata value.
In `@docs/api.md`:
- Around line 274-285: The retry metadata description should explicitly apply
only to burst-limiter 429 responses. Update the documentation around the 429
rate_limited response to state that upload_budget_exceeded responses are the
monthly-budget exception and do not include Retry-After, X-Retry-After, or
error.details.retry_after.
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burst-budget description and the corresponding section around the additional
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… read tier (#829) The legacy bearer listing hydrates only on ?metadata=1 or ?metadata=true. The tier classifier tested the other way round, treating anything but 0/false as hydrated, so an unrecognized value such as ?metadata=yes would pay the tight limit for work the route never performs. Use the same positive test as the route, with regression cases for both accepted spellings and for values it ignores. Also scopes the docs' retry-metadata claim to the burst limiters and states the monthly-budget exception, which reports a period rather than a countable delay and so carries no Retry-After.
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Implements §3 of #829, "Bound expensive reads and improve 429s".
Read limiter
Authenticated reads had no rate limit of their own — the only per-workspace
limiters covered mutations, renders, poster generation, and public intake.
This adds a read-side limiter in two tiers, keyed by workspace, entirely
separate from those budgets: a read never spends a write allowance and a write
never spends a read allowance.
READ_LIMITER(2400/60s)?metadata=0),file-url, a single object readHEAVY_READ_LIMITER(600/60s)files/search,files/facets,files/by-path, a metadata-hydrated listingThe tight tier is the set of shapes that fan out into D1 with per-row work.
Classification is derived from the request, never from a caller-supplied hint:
?metadata=0is the same opt-out the canonical listing already honors forhydration (#837), so the parameter that removes the work also removes the
tighter bound — an unhydrated list does not pay the hydrated limit. The legacy
bearer listing is classified by its own inverted contract (
?metadata=1opts in, and any
meta.*filter or?name=switches it to the D1 searchpath), so both of its expensive shapes land in the tight tier and a bare prefix
list does not.
Limits live in
wrangler.jsoncalongside every other limiter (productionunsafe.bindingsand the previewsratelimitsblock), which is the existingmechanism for changing them. Both fail open when the binding is absent, matching
WRITE_LIMITER/RENDER_LIMITER.Why these numbers are safe for current traffic
Sized well above observed legitimate use, because the point is bounding a
runaway loop rather than pacing the product:
by-pathfetchplus facet lookups per load — a handful of tight-tier reads. 600/60s leaves
room for many simultaneous members reloading continuously. The internal
fan-out that tripped auth limits in perf: kill screenshots-page search fan-out, fix auth rate-limit handling #797 was removed there (by-path strips
replaced the per-group search fan-out), so no page issues a per-item read
burst today.
uploads find, cursor pagination from §4) tops out at100 results per request; 600 requests/minute is far more paging than any
interactive or scripted use produces.
429 semantics
Retry metadata is now emitted from one place — the API's error boundary — for
every rate-limit error, instead of a handful of routes setting a header by hand:
Retry-After— the standard header (RFC 9110), in seconds.X-Retry-After— the same value, kept for compatibility. Better Auth usesthis spelling and the shipped client reads both (
packages/uploads/src/client.tsalready falls back across the pair — verified, unchanged).
error.details.retry_after— the same value on the body.The value is the limiter's configured window, which is honest: waiting one full
window is always sufficient. Rate-limit errors that genuinely have no figure
(the monthly upload budget) emit no header rather than a guess.
No
RateLimit-Limit/-Remaining/-Reset. A CloudflareRateLimitbinding's
limit()returns{ success }and nothing else, so there is noaccurate quota, remaining count, or reset instant available to report. Emitting
a fabricated one would make clients back off at the wrong time; a test asserts
the headers stay absent so a future change has to make that call deliberately.
Tests
pnpm testfrom root: 343 files, 5155 tests passing. New coverage:apps/api/src/read-limits.test.ts— tier classification (canonical andlegacy listings), per-workspace keying, tight-vs-normal routing, fail-open,
write limiter untouched by reads, and the full 429 contract including the
absence of limit/remaining/reset headers.
apps/api/src/routes/me.test.ts— end-to-end through the real routes: ahydrated listing 429s with both headers while the same listing with
?metadata=0succeeds; search, facets, and by-path 429 on the tight limiter;a read consumes no write budget.
apps/apitypechecks; oxfmt clean.Not included
packages/uploadschange, so no changeset: the client already read bothheader spellings and its behavior is unaffected.
binding set and reaches storage through a different path. Worth a follow-up if
it should share the budget.
narrative reference (
docs/api.md) gains a "Rate limits" section.Refs #829 §3.
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