Rate limit error responses in Rest API - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to set the HTTP status code for a rate limit error response.

Rest API

response.status_code = [1]

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A500

B404

C200

D429

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Common Mistakes

Using 404 which means Not Found.

Using 500 which means server error.

Using 200 which means success.

The HTTP status code 429 means "Too Many Requests" and is used to indicate rate limiting.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to add a 'Retry-After' header indicating how many seconds to wait before retrying.

Rest API

response.headers['Retry-After'] = [1]

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A'sixty'

B'60 minutes'

C'60'

D'one hour'

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Common Mistakes

Using words like 'sixty' or 'one hour' instead of seconds.

Using '60 minutes' which is not a valid format.

The 'Retry-After' header expects a number of seconds as a string, like '60' for 60 seconds.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to return a JSON response with the correct status code for rate limiting.

Rest API

return JsonResponse({'error': 'Rate limit exceeded'}, status=[1])

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A429

B404

C500

D200

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 404 which means Not Found.

Using 500 which means server error.

Using 200 which means success.

The status code 429 is the correct code to indicate rate limit exceeded in HTTP responses.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a dictionary with the error message and the retry time in seconds.

Rest API

error_response = {'message': [1], 'retry_after': [2]

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A'Rate limit exceeded'

B'Please wait before retrying'

C60

D120

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Common Mistakes

Using a message that is not clear about rate limiting.

Using retry_after as a string instead of a number.

The message should clearly state the rate limit error, and retry_after should be the wait time in seconds as an integer.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to create a full HTTP response with status code, headers, and JSON body for rate limiting.

Rest API

return Response([1], status=[2], headers=[3])

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A{'error': 'Too many requests'}

B429

C{'Retry-After': '60'}

D{'message': 'Try again later'}

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using wrong status codes like 404 or 200.

Missing the 'Retry-After' header.

Using incorrect body format.

The response body should contain an error message, the status code must be 429, and the headers include 'Retry-After' with seconds to wait.