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Make RedisRateLimiter extensible?

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Description

Hey guys!

In order to be able to rate limit per user API key (versus basing the limit on the route) I had to extend RedisRateLimiter to make isAllowed(String routeId, String apiKey) calculate the limits based up on the route and the apiKey. Please see the full thing here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50988095/rate-limiting-based-on-user-plan-in-spring-cloud-gateway

As you see it is somewhat hackish there because there's no good way to extend RedisRateLimiter - see I had to decorate it, copy some private/default scoped methods over as well as hack the @Primary annotation so it gets into the bean factory well.

Do you think RedisRateLimiter would be re-architected to be easier to extend?
Thanks!

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Research direction

Start with RedisRateLimiter and the isAllowed(String routeId, String apiKey) entry point described in the issue. Review the referenced Stack Overflow example to understand the current decoration workaround; done means RedisRateLimiter can be extended for API-key-based limits without copying private or default-scoped methods or relying on an @Primary hack.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java, redis, spring, spring-boot
Domain
api, backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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