feat(#148): added semaphore to API fetcher

src/stac_fastapi/indexed/settings.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ class _Settings(ApiSettings):
         True  # container images set this to false after installing extensions in build
     )
     create_empty_index_if_missing: bool = False
+    max_concurrency: int = 10
 
 
 @lru_cache(maxsize=1)

src/stac_fastapi/indexed/stac/fetcher.py

@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@
-from typing import Any, Dict, Type
+from asyncio import Semaphore
+from typing import Any, Dict, Final
 
-from stac_index.io.readers import SourceReader, get_reader_for_uri
-from stac_pydantic.collection import Collection
-from stac_pydantic.item import Item
+from stac_index.io.readers import get_reader_for_uri
 
-_source_reader_instances: Dict[str, Type[SourceReader]] = {}
+from stac_fastapi.indexed.settings import get_settings
 
+# If we ever support multi-catalog indexes, or if we see catalogs
+# whose STAC items come from different domains, it might be worth
+# maintaining one semaphore per domain as a single semaphore may
+# unnecessarily limit concurrency when hosts could handle more.
+_semaphore: Final[Semaphore] = Semaphore(value=get_settings().max_concurrency)
 
-async def fetch_dict(uri: str) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-    return await get_reader_for_uri(uri=uri).load_json_from_uri(uri)
-
-
-async def fetch_item(uri: str) -> Item:
-    return Item(**(await fetch_dict(uri)))
 
-
-async def fetch_collection(uri: str) -> Collection:
-    return Collection(**(await fetch_dict(uri)))
+async def fetch_dict(uri: str) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    async with _semaphore:
+        return await get_reader_for_uri(uri=uri).load_json_from_uri(uri)