"""Interface for a rate limiter and an in-memory rate limiter."""
from __future__ import annotations
import abc
import asyncio
import threading
import time
from typing import (
Optional,
)
from langchain_core._api import beta
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@beta(message="Introduced in 0.2.24. API subject to change.")
class BaseRateLimiter(abc.ABC):
"""Base class for rate limiters.
Usage of the base limiter is through the acquire and aacquire methods depending
on whether running in a sync or async context.
Implementations are free to add a timeout parameter to their initialize method
to allow users to specify a timeout for acquiring the necessary tokens when
using a blocking call.
Current limitations:
- Rate limiting information is not surfaced in tracing or callbacks. This means
that the total time it takes to invoke a chat model will encompass both
the time spent waiting for tokens and the time spent making the request.
.. versionadded:: 0.2.24
"""
[docs]
@abc.abstractmethod
def acquire(self, *, blocking: bool = True) -> bool:
"""Attempt to acquire the necessary tokens for the rate limiter.
This method blocks until the required tokens are available if `blocking`
is set to True.
If `blocking` is set to False, the method will immediately return the result
of the attempt to acquire the tokens.
Args:
blocking: If True, the method will block until the tokens are available.
If False, the method will return immediately with the result of
the attempt. Defaults to True.
Returns:
True if the tokens were successfully acquired, False otherwise.
"""
[docs]
@abc.abstractmethod
async def aacquire(self, *, blocking: bool = True) -> bool:
"""Attempt to acquire the necessary tokens for the rate limiter.
This method blocks until the required tokens are available if `blocking`
is set to True.
If `blocking` is set to False, the method will immediately return the result
of the attempt to acquire the tokens.
Args:
blocking: If True, the method will block until the tokens are available.
If False, the method will return immediately with the result of
the attempt. Defaults to True.
Returns:
True if the tokens were successfully acquired, False otherwise.
"""
[docs]
@beta(message="Introduced in 0.2.24. API subject to change.")
class InMemoryRateLimiter(BaseRateLimiter):
"""An in memory rate limiter based on a token bucket algorithm.
This is an in memory rate limiter, so it cannot rate limit across
different processes.
The rate limiter only allows time-based rate limiting and does not
take into account any information about the input or the output, so it
cannot be used to rate limit based on the size of the request.
It is thread safe and can be used in either a sync or async context.
The in memory rate limiter is based on a token bucket. The bucket is filled
with tokens at a given rate. Each request consumes a token. If there are
not enough tokens in the bucket, the request is blocked until there are
enough tokens.
These *tokens* have NOTHING to do with LLM tokens. They are just
a way to keep track of how many requests can be made at a given time.
Current limitations:
- The rate limiter is not designed to work across different processes. It is
an in-memory rate limiter, but it is thread safe.
- The rate limiter only supports time-based rate limiting. It does not take
into account the size of the request or any other factors.
Example:
.. code-block:: python
import time
from langchain_core.rate_limiters import InMemoryRateLimiter
rate_limiter = InMemoryRateLimiter(
requests_per_second=0.1, # <-- Can only make a request once every 10 seconds!!
check_every_n_seconds=0.1, # Wake up every 100 ms to check whether allowed to make a request,
max_bucket_size=10, # Controls the maximum burst size.
)
from langchain_anthropic import ChatAnthropic
model = ChatAnthropic(
model_name="claude-3-opus-20240229",
rate_limiter=rate_limiter
)
for _ in range(5):
tic = time.time()
model.invoke("hello")
toc = time.time()
print(toc - tic)
.. versionadded:: 0.2.24
""" # noqa: E501
[docs]
def __init__(
self,
*,
requests_per_second: float = 1,
check_every_n_seconds: float = 0.1,
max_bucket_size: float = 1,
) -> None:
"""A rate limiter based on a token bucket.
These *tokens* have NOTHING to do with LLM tokens. They are just
a way to keep track of how many requests can be made at a given time.
This rate limiter is designed to work in a threaded environment.
It works by filling up a bucket with tokens at a given rate. Each
request consumes a given number of tokens. If there are not enough
tokens in the bucket, the request is blocked until there are enough
tokens.
Args:
requests_per_second: The number of tokens to add per second to the bucket.
Must be at least 1. The tokens represent "credit" that can be used
to make requests.
check_every_n_seconds: check whether the tokens are available
every this many seconds. Can be a float to represent
fractions of a second.
max_bucket_size: The maximum number of tokens that can be in the bucket.
This is used to prevent bursts of requests.
"""
# Number of requests that we can make per second.
self.requests_per_second = requests_per_second
# Number of tokens in the bucket.
self.available_tokens = 0.0
self.max_bucket_size = max_bucket_size
# A lock to ensure that tokens can only be consumed by one thread
# at a given time.
self._consume_lock = threading.Lock()
# The last time we tried to consume tokens.
self.last: Optional[float] = None
self.check_every_n_seconds = check_every_n_seconds
def _consume(self) -> bool:
"""Try to consume a token.
Returns:
True means that the tokens were consumed, and the caller can proceed to
make the request. A False means that the tokens were not consumed, and
the caller should try again later.
"""
with self._consume_lock:
now = time.time()
# initialize on first call to avoid a burst
if self.last is None:
self.last = now
elapsed = now - self.last
if elapsed * self.requests_per_second >= 1:
self.available_tokens += elapsed * self.requests_per_second
self.last = now
# Make sure that we don't exceed the bucket size.
# This is used to prevent bursts of requests.
self.available_tokens = min(self.available_tokens, self.max_bucket_size)
# As long as we have at least one token, we can proceed.
if self.available_tokens >= 1:
self.available_tokens -= 1
return True
return False
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def acquire(self, *, blocking: bool = True) -> bool:
"""Attempt to acquire a token from the rate limiter.
This method blocks until the required tokens are available if `blocking`
is set to True.
If `blocking` is set to False, the method will immediately return the result
of the attempt to acquire the tokens.
Args:
blocking: If True, the method will block until the tokens are available.
If False, the method will return immediately with the result of
the attempt. Defaults to True.
Returns:
True if the tokens were successfully acquired, False otherwise.
"""
if not blocking:
return self._consume()
while not self._consume():
time.sleep(self.check_every_n_seconds)
return True
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async def aacquire(self, *, blocking: bool = True) -> bool:
"""Attempt to acquire a token from the rate limiter. Async version.
This method blocks until the required tokens are available if `blocking`
is set to True.
If `blocking` is set to False, the method will immediately return the result
of the attempt to acquire the tokens.
Args:
blocking: If True, the method will block until the tokens are available.
If False, the method will return immediately with the result of
the attempt. Defaults to True.
Returns:
True if the tokens were successfully acquired, False otherwise.
"""
if not blocking:
return self._consume()
while not self._consume():
await asyncio.sleep(self.check_every_n_seconds)
return True
__all__ = [
"BaseRateLimiter",
"InMemoryRateLimiter",
]
