1.4.3

* version bump

* add maxwps/COUCH_MAX_WPS config for rate limiting writes

* 1.4.3

README.md

@@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ If you are importing data into a CouchDB database that already contains data, an
 * COUCH_PREVIEW - run in preview mode
 * COUCH_IGNORE_FIELDS - a comma-separated list of field names to ignore on import or export e.g. price,url,image
 * COUCH_OVERWRITE - overwrite existing document revisions with supplied data
+* COUCH_PARALLELISM - the maximum number of HTTP requests to have in flight at any one time (default: 1)
+* COUCH_MAX_WPS - the maximum number of write API calls to make per second (rate limiting) (default: 0 - no rate limiting)
 
 ## Command-line parameters
 
@@ -239,6 +241,7 @@ You can also configure `couchimport` and `couchexport` using command-line parame
 * `--preview`/`-p` - if 'true', runs in preview mode (default false)
 * `--ignorefields`/`-i` - a comma-separated list of fields to ignore input or output (default none)
 * `--parallelism` - the number of HTTP request to have in flight at any one time (default 1)
+* `--maxwps` - the maximum number of write API calls to make per second (default 0 - no rate limiting)
 * `--overwrite`/`-o` - overwrite existing document revisions with supplied data (default: false)
 
 e.g.
@@ -387,10 +390,12 @@ The emitted data is an object containing:
 * failed - the number of documents failed to write in the last batch
 * totalfailed - the number of documents that failed to write in total
 
-## Parallelism
+## Parallelism & Rate limiting
 
 Using the `COUCH_PARALLELISM` environment variable or the `--parallelism` command-line option, couchimport can be configured to write data in multiple parallel operations. If you have the networkbandwidth, this can significantly speed up large data imports e.g.
 
 ```sh
   cat bigdata.csv | couchimport --database mydb --parallelism 10 --delimiter ","
 ```
+
+This can be combined with the `COUCH_MAX_WPS`/`--maxwps` parameter to limit the number write API calls dispatched per second to make sure you don't exceed the number writes on a rate-limited service.

app.js

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ const importStream = function (rs, opts, callback) {
   opts = defaults.merge(opts)
 
   // load dependencies
-  const writer = require('./includes/writer.js')(opts.url, opts.database, opts.buffer, opts.parallelism, opts.ignorefields, opts.overwrite)
+  const writer = require('./includes/writer.js')(opts.url, opts.database, opts.buffer, opts.parallelism, opts.ignorefields, opts.overwrite, opts.maxwps)
   const transformer = require('./includes/transformer.js')(opts.transform, opts.meta)
   const JSONStream = require('JSONStream')
   if (opts.type === 'jsonl') {

includes/args.js

@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ const parse = function () {
       describe: 'the number of HTTP requests to have in-flight at any one time',
       default: process.env.COUCH_PARALLELISM ? parseInt(process.env.COUCH_PARALLELISM) : 1
     })
+    .option('maxwps', {
+      number: true,
+      describe: 'the maximum number of write operations to perform per second',
+      default: process.env.MAX_WPS ? parseInt(process.env.MAX_WPS) : 0
+    })
     .option('type', {
       alias: 't',
       describe: 'the type of file being imported',

includes/writer.js

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 const async = require('async')
+const qrate = require('qrate')
 const debug = require('debug')('couchimport')
 const iam = require('./iam.js')
 const axios = require('axios').default
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@ const axios = require('axios').default
 const IAM_API_KEY = process.env.IAM_API_KEY ? process.env.IAM_API_KEY : null
 let iamAccessToken = null
 
-module.exports = function (couchURL, couchDatabase, bufferSize, parallelism, ignoreFields, overwrite) {
+module.exports = function (couchURL, couchDatabase, bufferSize, parallelism, ignoreFields, overwrite, maxwps) {
   const stream = require('stream')
 
   let buffer = []
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ module.exports = function (couchURL, couchDatabase, bufferSize, parallelism, ign
     }
 
     // process the writes in bulk as a queue
-    const q = async.queue(async (payload) => {
+    const q = qrate(async (payload) => {
       // detected whether we need to supply new_edits = false
       let allHaveRev = true
       for (var i in payload.docs) {
@@ -116,7 +117,7 @@ module.exports = function (couchURL, couchDatabase, bufferSize, parallelism, ign
       totalfailed += failed
       writer.emit('written', { documents: ok, failed: failed, total: written, totalfailed: totalfailed })
       debug({ documents: ok, failed: failed, total: written, totalfailed: totalfailed })
-    }, parallelism)
+    }, parallelism, maxwps || undefined)
 
     // write the contents of the buffer to CouchDB in blocks of 500
     const processBuffer = function (flush, callback) {