Optimize _Saverdict.update that caused issues for webclient option update (#2224)

evennia/contrib/tutorial_world/intro_menu.py

@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ gaming style you like and possibly any new ones you can come up with!
 (aka MUDs, MUSHes, MUX, MOOs...). It is open-source and |wfree to use|n, also for
 commercial projects (BSD license).
 
-Out of the box, Evennia provides a |wfull, if empty game|n. Whereas you can play
+Out of the box, Evennia provides a |wworking, if empty game|n. Whereas you can play
 via traditional telnet MUD-clients, the server runs your game's website and
 offers a |wHTML5 webclient|n so that people can play your game in their browser
 without downloading anything extra.

evennia/scripts/monitorhandler.py

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ class MonitorHandler(object):
 
     def at_update(self, obj, fieldname):
         """
-        Called by the field as it saves.
+        Called by the field/attribute as it saves.
 
         """
         to_delete = []

evennia/server/inputfuncs.py

@@ -522,9 +522,8 @@ def webclient_options(session, *args, **kwargs):
             session=session,
         )
     else:
-        # kwargs provided: persist them to the account object
-        for key, value in kwargs.items():
-            clientoptions[key] = value
+        # kwargs provided: persist them to the account object.
+        clientoptions.update(kwargs)
 
 
 # OOB protocol-specific aliases and wrappers

evennia/utils/dbserialize.py

@@ -300,6 +300,10 @@ class _SaverDict(_SaverMutable, MutableMapping):
     def has_key(self, key):
         return key in self._data
 
+    @_save
+    def update(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        self._data.update(*args, **kwargs)
+
 
 class _SaverSet(_SaverMutable, MutableSet):
     """

evennia/web/webclient/static/webclient/js/evennia.js

@@ -268,12 +268,14 @@ An "emitter" object must have a function
                 // Parse the incoming data, send to emitter
                 // Incoming data is on the form [cmdname, args, kwargs]
                 data = JSON.parse(data);
+                // console.log(" server->client:", data)
                 Evennia.emit(data[0], data[1], data[2]);
             };
         }
 
         var msg = function(data) {
             // send data across the wire. Make sure to json it.
+            // console.log("client->server:", data)
             websocket.send(JSON.stringify(data));
         };