Currently a plugin can be attached to either an API or a consumer for an API. For APIs with a larger number of users it would be useful to be able to create a group concept that could be shared between plugins and ACLs. For example this could be used to define rate limits by a group instead of eit…

Hi, This is definitely on our roadmap (and has been for a while). Stay tuned.

Hi, any update on this? I’m especially interested in applying rate-limiting to groups. ( When using a local strategy, if the number of nodes changes, it’s possible that every API consumer would have to be updated with a new local limit. :frowning: ) Thanks!

Support for attaching API plugins to groups

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wout May 7, 2020, 11:41am 4

Hi! Is this still on your roadmap? It would come in very useful. I have a use-case that currently can be solved with a somewhat messy workaround, which is not without caveats:

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Support for attaching API plugins to groups

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