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Limits operations#

Use the Limits operations to get information about the rate and domain limits for a specified Rackspace Cloud account.

List limits#

GET /v1.0/{account}/limits

Lists all applicable limits.

This call provides a list of all applicable limits for a specified account.

The following examples show the requests and corresponding responses to list all limits for the specified account.

For details about the limits information returned, refer to Limits.

This table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Response Code Name Description
200 Success Request succeeded.
400 500 dnsFault The DNS service has experienced a fault.
401 Unauthorized You are not authorized to complete this operation. This error can occur if the request is submitted with an invalid authentication token.
503 Service Unavailable The service is not available.

Request#

This table shows the header parameters for the request:

Name Type Description
X-Auth-Token String Arbitrary character string generated by the authentication service in response to valid credentials.

This table shows the URI parameters for the request:

Name Type Description
{account} String The tenant ID.

This operation does not accept a request body.

Example List limits: XML request

GET https://dns.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/1234/limits
Accept: application/xml
X-Auth-Token:
                                                                     ea85e6ac-baff-4a6c-bf43-848020ea3812
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 0

Example List limits: JSON request

GET https://dns.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/1234/limits
Accept: application/json
X-Auth-Token:
                                                                     ea85e6ac-baff-4a6c-bf43-848020ea3812
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 0

Response#

Example List limits: XML response

Status: 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:54:21 GMT
X-API-VERSION:
                                                                     1.0.17
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 808

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<limits xmlns="http://docs.openstack.org/common/api/v1.0">
    <rates>
        <rate uri="*/status/*" regex=".*/v\d+\.\d+/(\d+/status).*">
            <limit verb="GET" value="5" remaining="0" unit="SECOND"/>
        </rate>
        <rate uri="*/domains*" regex=".*/v\d+\.\d+/(\d+/domains).*">
            <limit verb="GET" value="100" remaining="0" unit="MINUTE"/>
            <limit verb="POST" value="25" remaining="0" unit="MINUTE"/>
            <limit verb="PUT" value="50" remaining="0" unit="MINUTE"/>
            <limit verb="DELETE" value="50" remaining="0" unit="MINUTE"/>
        </rate>
    </rates>
    <absolute>
        <limit name="domains" value="500"/>
        <limit name="records per domain" value="500"/>
    </absolute>
</limits>

Example List limits: JSON response

Status: 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:54:21 GMT
X-API-VERSION:
                                                                     1.0.17
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 831

{
  "rates" : {
    "rate" : [ {
      "uri" : "*/status/*",
      "limit" : [ {
        "value" : 5,
        "verb" : "GET",
        "unit" : "SECOND"
      } ],
      "regex" : ".*/v\\d+\\.\\d+/(\\d+/status).*"
    }, {
      "uri" : "*/domains*",
      "limit" : [ {
        "value" : 100,
        "verb" : "GET",
        "unit" : "MINUTE"
      }, {
        "value" : 25,
        "verb" : "POST",
        "unit" : "MINUTE"
      }, {
        "value" : 50,
        "verb" : "PUT",
        "unit" : "MINUTE"
      }, {
        "value" : 50,
        "verb" : "DELETE",
        "unit" : "MINUTE"
      } ],
      "regex" : ".*/v\\d+\\.\\d+/(\\d+/domains).*"
    } ]
  },
  "absolute" : {
    "limit" : [ {
      "name" : "domains",
      "value" : 500
    }, {
      "name" : "records per domain",
      "value" : 500
    } ]
  }
}

Show limits#

GET /v1.0/{account}/limits/{type}

Shows assigned limits for a specified type.

This call provides a list of all applicable limits of a specified type for the specified account.

The following examples show the requests and corresponding responses to list all applicable limits of a specified type for the specified account.

This table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Response Code Name Description
200 Success Request succeeded.
400 500 dnsFault The DNS service has experienced a fault.
401 Unauthorized You are not authorized to complete this operation. This error can occur if the request is submitted with an invalid authentication token.
503 Service Unavailable The service is not available.

Request#

This table shows the header parameters for the request:

Name Type Description
X-Auth-Token String Arbitrary character string generated by the authentication service in response to valid credentials.

This table shows the URI parameters for the request:

Name Type Description
{account} String The tenant ID.
{type} String The type of limit.

This operation does not accept a request body.

Example List Specified Limit: XML request

GET https://dns.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/1234/limits/rate_limit
Accept: application/xml
X-Auth-Token:
                                                                     ea85e6ac-baff-4a6c-bf43-848020ea3812
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 0

Example List Specified Limit: JSON request

GET https://dns.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/1234/limits/rate_limit
Accept: application/json
X-Auth-Token:
                                                                     ea85e6ac-baff-4a6c-bf43-848020ea3812
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 0

Response#

Example List Specified Limit: XML response

Status: 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:54:21 GMT
X-API-VERSION:
                                                                     1.0.17
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 678

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<limits xmlns="http://docs.openstack.org/common/api/v1.0">
    <rates>
        <rate uri="*/status/*" regex=".*/v\d+\.\d+/(\d+/status).*">
            <limit verb="GET" value="5" remaining="0" unit="SECOND"/>
        </rate>
        <rate uri="*/domains*" regex=".*/v\d+\.\d+/(\d+/domains).*">
            <limit verb="GET" value="100" remaining="0" unit="MINUTE"/>
            <limit verb="POST" value="25" remaining="0" unit="MINUTE"/>
            <limit verb="PUT" value="50" remaining="0" unit="MINUTE"/>
            <limit verb="DELETE" value="50" remaining="0" unit="MINUTE"/>
        </rate>
    </rates>
</limits>

Example List Specified Limit: JSON response

Status: 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:54:21 GMT
X-API-VERSION:
                                                                     1.0.17
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 671

{
  "rates" : {
    "rate" : [ {
      "uri" : "*/status/*",
      "limit" : [ {
        "value" : 5,
        "verb" : "GET",
        "unit" : "SECOND"
      } ],
      "regex" : ".*/v\\d+\\.\\d+/(\\d+/status).*"
    }, {
      "uri" : "*/domains*",
      "limit" : [ {
        "value" : 100,
        "verb" : "GET",
        "unit" : "MINUTE"
      }, {
        "value" : 25,
        "verb" : "POST",
        "unit" : "MINUTE"
      }, {
        "value" : 50,
        "verb" : "PUT",
        "unit" : "MINUTE"
      }, {
        "value" : 50,
        "verb" : "DELETE",
        "unit" : "MINUTE"
      } ],
      "regex" : ".*/v\\d+\\.\\d+/(\\d+/domains).*"
    } ]
  }
}

List limit types#

GET /v1.0/{account}/limits/types

Lists the types of limits.

This call provides a list of all applicable limit types for a specified account.

The following examples show the requests and corresponding responses to list all limit types for the specified account.

This table shows the possible response codes for this operation:

Response Code Name Description
200 Success Request succeeded.
400 500 dnsFault The DNS service has experienced a fault.
401 Unauthorized You are not authorized to complete this operation. This error can occur if the request is submitted with an invalid authentication token.
503 Service Unavailable The service is not available.

Request#

This table shows the header parameters for the request:

Name Type Description
X-Auth-Token String Arbitrary character string generated by the authentication service in response to valid credentials.

This table shows the URI parameters for the request:

Name Type Description
{account} String The tenant ID.

This operation does not accept a request body.

Example List limit types: XML request

GET https://dns.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/1234/limits/types
Accept: application/xml
X-Auth-Token: ea85e6ac-baff-4a6c-bf43-848020ea3812
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 0

Example List limit types: JSON request

GET https://dns.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/1234/limits/types
Accept: application/json
X-Auth-Token: ea85e6ac-baff-4a6c-bf43-848020ea3812
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 0

Response#

Example List limit types: XML response

Status: 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:54:21 GMT
X-API-VERSION: 1.0.17
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 455

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<grouplimittypes xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns="http://docs.rackspacecloud.com/dns/api/v1.0" xmlns:ns4="http://docs.openstack.org/common/api/v1.0" xmlns:ns3="http://docs.rackspacecloud.com/dns/api/management/v1.0">
    <ns3:limitType>rate_limit</ns3:limitType>
    <ns3:limitType>domain_limit</ns3:limitType>
    <ns3:limitType>domain_record_limit</ns3:limitType>
</grouplimittypes>

Example List limit types: JSON response

Status: 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:54:21 GMT
X-API-VERSION: 1.0.17
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 76

{
  "limitTypes" : [ "RATE_LIMIT", "DOMAIN_LIMIT", "DOMAIN_RECORD_LIMIT" ]
}