Rate Limit Error

[rjlarsen842]

Describe the bug
We are using the cwms-python method "rate_values" to utilize the rate function in CDA within a bulletin script. There are 58 projects contained in the bulletin and we are rating 2 different elevation zones (1 value) at each project to calculate the corresponding storage value. At varying points in the bulletin, the script begins to throw a Rate Limit Error and does not rate the elevation values. We are using threading to make the bulletin run faster but the Rate Limit Error also occurs when the max threads is set to 1. The errors are intermittent. I can run the script and not receive any errors and rerun the script and receive many Rate Limit Errors.

Expected behavior
All elevation values should be rated.

To Reproduce
Run our NWD_Reservoir_Bulletin_Jpype.py script on a PC. We are still working on setting it up on the NWO T7.

Logs/Incident Identifier

NWD_Reservoir_Bulletin_Jpype.log

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[MikeNeilson]

The default rate limit is 100 requests/minute. And the system is pretty dumb about what constitute a unique user or session so it's probably going by IP which would be the same for anything.

There are two ways to work around:

1. Create an API Key for those scripts and use the key, an authenticated user has no rate of request limits.
2. at export JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -Dcwms.dataapi.request.limit=10000000" (or some other crazy high value) to the Tomcat setenv.sh

Note I think that the syntax of 2 is right, but there should be some existing example in that file for those that can edit it to follow. I think one could also set it as part of the web.xml but it's been a while so I'm not sure.