add in failopen option to annotation

Annotation/RateLimit.php

@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ class RateLimit extends ConfigurationAnnotation
      */
     protected $payload;
 
+    /**
+     * @var bool allow the ratelimiter to fail open on any request where an exception is thrown
+     */
+    protected $failOpen = false;
+
     /**
      * Returns the alias name for an annotated configuration.
      *
@@ -115,4 +120,20 @@ public function setPayload($payload)
         $this->payload = $payload;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @return bool
+     */
+    public function getFailOpen()
+    {
+        return $this->failOpen;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param bool $failOpen
+     */
+    public function setFailOpen($failOpen)
+    {
+        $this->failOpen = $failOpen;
+    }
+
 }

EventListener/RateLimitAnnotationListener.php

@@ -78,8 +78,17 @@ public function onKernelController(FilterControllerEvent $event)
 
         $key = $this->getKey($event, $rateLimit, $annotations);
 
-        // Ratelimit the call
-        $rateLimitInfo = $this->rateLimitService->limitRate($key);
+        $rateLimitInfo = null;
+        // rate limit fails for any reason we can allow the endpoint to respond normally
+        try {
+            // Ratelimit the call
+            $rateLimitInfo = $this->rateLimitService->limitRate($key);
+        } catch (\Exception $exception) {
+            if ($rateLimit->getFailOpen()) {
+                return;
+            }
+        }
+
         if (! $rateLimitInfo) {
             // Create new rate limit entry for this call
             $rateLimitInfo = $this->rateLimitService->createRate($key, $rateLimit->getLimit(), $rateLimit->getPeriod());

README.md

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
 /**
  * @Route(...)
  *
- * @RateLimit(limit=1000, period=3600)
+ * @RateLimit(limit=1000, period=3600, failOpen=true)
  */
 public function someApiAction()
 {