What is the best way to register the amount of functions beeing called per user?
First I thought I made an extra column in the user table and incremented a counter there, but in a query i cant access the ctx.patch function.
Then I thought about using actions, but then I wouldnt have the realtime update of a query and in the docs it says, I shouldnt call too many actions, because they slow down the server.
Soooo what could I do ? 😇
Is there a way to access the logs maybe via a function and I could maybe once an hour count?
Is there an event I could subscribe a function to ?
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Thank you!
I'm not 100% sure i understand your question but it sounds like you're looking for the rate Limiter
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While you can't use
ctx.patch from a query, you can kick off a scheduled function with ctx.runAfter.
As for what that scheduled function does, you might use the Aggregate component to keep the count. The rate limiting that Sara mentioned might also be useful depending on how active you feel this count system might become.this is exactly what i need, but it seems like in a query there is no scheduler, runAfter or alike ...
And if I managed it via an action, it wouldnt have realtime update anymore 😇
you can't run mutations in a
query, use mutation insteadi need it to be like this
Hmmm...my memory failed me again. I could've sworn that you could schedule things from queries.
You're trying to get a count of how many times each user triggers each function call, correct?
yes, and not only mutations but also querys
Yeah, that's a tricky one. Nothing else is coming readily to mind that would work with queries.
I gotta get to work, but I'll try to check back later.
thank you sir 🙂