Building RESTful Python Web Services

Configuring throttling policies

We will use a combination of the three throttling classes, discussed earlier, to achieve our previously explained goals. Make sure you quit Django's development server. Remember that you just need to press Ctrl + C in the Terminal or Command Prompt window in which it is running.

Open the gamesapi/settings.py file and add the highlighted lines to the dictionary named REST_FRAMEWORK with two key-value pairs that configure the global default throttling classes and their rates. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_chapter_04_01 folder:

REST_FRAMEWORK = { 'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'games.pagination.LimitOffsetPaginationWithMaxLimit', 'PAGE_SIZE': 5, 'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': ( 'rest_framework.authentication.BasicAuthentication', ...