Add 'exec' argument to spawner prototype for running arbitrary code as part of object creation. Make all prototype keys also settable with a callable.

evennia/utils/spawner.py

@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ Possible keywords are:
     aliases - string or list of strings
     tags - string or list of strings
     ndb_<name> - value of a nattribute (ndb_ is stripped)
+    exec - this is a string of python code to execute or a list of such codes.
+        This can be used e.g. to trigger custom handlers on the object. The
+        execution environment contains 'evennia' for the library and 'obj'
+        for accessing the just created object.
     any other keywords are interpreted as Attributes and their values.
 
 Each value can also be a callable that takes no arguments. It should
@@ -84,6 +88,7 @@ import copy
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from random import randint
+import evennia
 from evennia.objects.models import ObjectDB
 from evennia.utils.utils import make_iter, all_from_module, dbid_to_obj
 
@@ -165,6 +170,10 @@ def _batch_create_object(*objparams):
                            "tags":objparam[6]}
         # this triggers all hooks
         obj.save()
+        # run eventual extra code
+        for code in objparam[7]:
+            if code:
+                exec(code, {}, {"evennia": evennia, "obj": obj})
         objs.append(obj)
     return objs
 
@@ -211,22 +220,38 @@ def spawn(*prototypes, **kwargs):
         if not prot:
             continue
 
-        # extract the keyword args we need to create the object itself
+        # extract the keyword args we need to create the object itself. If we get a callable,
+        # call that to get the value (don't catch errors)
         create_kwargs = {}
-        create_kwargs["db_key"] = prot.pop("key", "Spawned Object %06i" % randint(1,100000))
-        create_kwargs["db_location"] = _handle_dbref(prot.pop("location", None))
-        create_kwargs["db_home"] = _handle_dbref(prot.pop("home", settings.DEFAULT_HOME))
-        create_kwargs["db_destination"] = _handle_dbref(prot.pop("destination", None))
-        create_kwargs["db_typeclass_path"] = prot.pop("typeclass", settings.BASE_OBJECT_TYPECLASS)
+        keyval = prot.pop("key", "Spawned Object %06i" % randint(1,100000))
+        create_kwargs["db_key"] = keyval() if callable(keyval) else keyval
+
+        locval  = prot.pop("location", None)
+        create_kwargs["db_location"] = locval() if callable(locval) else _handle_dbref(locval)
+
+        homval = prot.pop("home", settings.DEFAULT_HOME)
+        create_kwargs["db_home"] = homval() if callable(homval) else _handle_dbref(homval)
+
+        destval = prot.pop("destination", None)
+        create_kwargs["db_destination"] = destval() if callable(destval) else _handle_dbref(destval)
+
+        typval = prot.pop("typeclass", settings.BASE_OBJECT_TYPECLASS)
+        create_kwargs["db_typeclass_path"] = typval() if callable(typval) else typval
 
         # extract calls to handlers
-        permission_string = prot.pop("permissions", "")
-        lock_string = prot.pop("locks", "")
-        alias_string = prot.pop("aliases", "")
-        tags = prot.pop("tags", "")
+        permval = prot.pop("permissions", "")
+        permission_string = permval() if callable(permval) else permval
+        lockval = prot.pop("locks", "")
+        lock_string = lockval() if callable(lockval) else lockval
+        aliasval = prot.pop("aliases", "")
+        alias_string =  aliasval() if callable(aliasval) else aliasval
+        tagval = prot.pop("tags", "")
+        tags = tagval() if callable(tagval) else tagval
+        exval = prot.pop("exec", "")
+        execs = make_iter(exval() if callable(exval) else exval)
 
         # extract ndb assignments
-        nattributes = dict((key.split("_", 1)[1], value if callable(value) else value)
+        nattributes = dict((key.split("_", 1)[1], value() if callable(value) else value)
                             for key, value in prot.items() if key.startswith("ndb_"))
 
         # the rest are attributes
@@ -236,7 +261,7 @@ def spawn(*prototypes, **kwargs):
 
         # pack for call into _batch_create_object
         objsparams.append( (create_kwargs, permission_string, lock_string,
-                            alias_string, nattributes, attributes, tags) )
+                            alias_string, nattributes, attributes, tags, execs) )
 
     return _batch_create_object(*objsparams)