API client hangs forever when rate limit exceeded

[mhoban]

When the daily request limit is exceeded, the client should throw an exception. Instead, the request just hangs forever. I can get around this by wrapping the call in some clever timeout code, but the API itself should fail immediately with an informative exception.

I can reproduce this by just running the example code in a loop 50 times, sleeping for a second between each request so as not to exceed the rate limit.

If I try the request through curl, I get a JSON response saying "rate limit exceeded", so it's clear the result is coming through somewhere, it's just not being interpreted correctly.

[gneissone]

@mhoban The API itself, as you noted, will send a prompt 429 response with the "rate limit exceeded" message. This client is generated using the OpenAPI Generator.

I see support for rate limiting was added to the C# client a few years ago, but I can't find anything for Python. We may need to submit an improvement request with that project.

[mhoban]

I suspected it was something like that. In the meantime, it looks like the client will just just keep re-trying until the request limit resets which in this particular case actually works out just fine.