Merge pull request #1813 from volundmush/copy_hook

Added at_object_creation_copy hook to DefaultObject.

evennia/objects/objects.py

@@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ class DefaultObject(with_metaclass(TypeclassBase, ObjectDB)):
 
         return obj, errors
 
-    def copy(self, new_key=None):
+    def copy(self, new_key=None, **kwargs):
         """
         Makes an identical copy of this object, identical except for a
         new dbref in the database. If you want to customize the copy
@@ -959,7 +959,22 @@ class DefaultObject(with_metaclass(TypeclassBase, ObjectDB)):
                       if obj.key.startswith(key) and obj.key.lstrip(key).isdigit())
             return "%s%03i" % (key, num)
         new_key = new_key or find_clone_key()
-        return ObjectDB.objects.copy_object(self, new_key=new_key)
+        new_obj = ObjectDB.objects.copy_object(self, new_key=new_key, **kwargs)
+        self.at_object_post_copy(new_obj, **kwargs)
+        return new_obj
+
+    def at_object_post_copy(self, new_obj, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Called by DefaultObject.copy(). Meant to be overloaded. In case there's extra data not covered by
+        .copy(), this can be used to deal with it.
+
+        Args:
+            new_obj (Object): The new Copy of this object.
+
+        Returns:
+            None
+        """
+        pass
 
     def delete(self):
         """