Merge pull request #376 from DataDog/shubho/add-429-response-code

Handle http code 429 for rate limiting

datadog/api/exceptions.py

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class ApiError(Exception):
     """
     Datadog returned an API error (known HTTPError).
 
-    Matches the following status codes: 400, 403, 404, 409.
+    Matches the following status codes: 400, 403, 404, 409, 429.
     """
 
 

datadog/api/http_client.py

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def request(cls, method, url, headers, params, data, timeout, proxies, verify, m
         except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
             raise _remove_context(HttpTimeout(method, url, timeout))
         except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as e:
-            if e.response.status_code in (400, 403, 404, 409):
+            if e.response.status_code in (400, 403, 404, 409, 429):
                 # This gets caught afterwards and raises an ApiError exception
                 pass
             else:
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ def raise_on_status(cls, result):
         status_code = result.status_code
 
         if (status_code / 100) != 2:
-            if status_code in (400, 403, 404, 409):
+            if status_code in (400, 403, 404, 409, 429):
                 pass
             else:
                 raise HTTPError(status_code)