WARNING!
there's no going back now. this change is *huge* but it was overdue.
WARNING!
the database backend is now mysql. modules that should use a database
but don't yet were left untouched, they'll come later. scripts haven't
been converted yet, though i'm pretty sure i'll need to soon.
while i was going through everything, connection/cursor idioms were
cleaned up, as were a bunch of log messages and exception handling. this
change is so gross i'm happy things appear to be working, which is
the case --- all modules are lightly tested.
Markov, Twitter: switch to forking a thread ourselves, and check every
second whether or not to quit. this is the "better" part above, as
now we can instantly quit the thread rather than waiting for all
the timers to fire and expire
this just sends a privmsg to the specified target on the specified
connection. pretty straightforward. also, update the modules that
need it to use it.
more of a moving of the code, actually, it now exists in (an overridden)
_handle_event, so that recursions happen against irc events directly,
rather than an already partially interpreted object.
with this change, modules don't need to implement do() nor do we have a
need for the internal_bus, which was doing an additional walk of the
modules after the irc event was already handled and turned into text. now
the core event handler does the recursion scans.
to support this, we bring back the old replypath trick and use it again,
so we know when to send a privmsg reply and when to return text so that
it may be chained in recursion. this feels old hat by now, but if you
haven't been following along, you should really look at the diff.
that's the meat of the change. the rest is updating modules to use
self.reply() and reimplementing (un)register_handlers where appropriate
needs authentication. this adds a sqlite database, to track a couple
settings. one, since_id, tracks the last successful time this poll
happened, so it's pretty important you don't muck around with it.
default value is 0, so the first time this poll occurs, it may be a
bit spammy.
with alias calling do() internally, there is no need for all this
replypath nonsense, and if there's ever a module that needs to reply
to stuff on its own outside of do(), it'd have to be implementing
all of this anyway, so it was pretty irrelevant.
this makes DrBotIRC alias/recursion stuff a bit cleaner.
okay, it's time. we got around for a while with all sorts of silly
config options and exceptions and common strings triggering bot
commands. but now it's time to man up and expect modules to be
more strict and less loosey-goosey.
convert the popular modules (i.e. the ones that still work) to
trigger on !pi rather than pi, etc. usually, this is achieved via
regex searches, although there are some weird bugs (ones i'm hoping
are caused by other recursion/alias bugs and not this commit).
more code around this will be gutted soon, but this, at least,
means you can't say 'tweet that shit, yo' and accidentally trigger
the bot.
this is a big change. DrBotIrc is now in charge of module loading
and unloading, aliases, and recursion. the Alias module is no more,
and a bunch of functionality was moved out of IrcAdmin, including
also config file saving, the sigint handler, and quitting the bot.
additionally, a lot of stuff got caught in the wake. dr.botzo.py
is simpler now, and lets DrBotIRC do the dynamic loading stuff.
Module.__init__ changed, modules no longer get modlist and instead
get a reference to the DrBotIRC object. IrcAdmin still has the same
exposed methods, but now calls out to DrBotIRC to achieve some of
them.
naturally, a recursion/alias rewrite was included with this change.
it is clearer now (i think), but probably brittle somewhere.
additionally, currently any module that has registered a pubmsg
handler can potentially fire more than once on one input (without
recursion). this may be the next thing to fix. do() may need to
be split, or maybe it's time to stop having modules deal with
pubmsg/privmsg entirely. need to decide.
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Brian S. Stephan