Added captalized names for singleton handlers in the main package api, like TICKER_HANDLER and OOB_HANDLER rather than tickerhandler and oobhandler.

evennia/__init__.py

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ create_message = None
 
 # utilities
 lockfuncs = None
-tickerhandler = None
+oobhandler = None
 logger = None
 gametime = None
 ansi = None
@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ spawn = None
 managers = None
 contrib = None
 
+# Handlers
+SESSION_HANDLER = None
+TICKER_HANDLER = None
+OOB_HANDLER = None
+CHANNEL_HANDLER = None
+
 
 import os
 from subprocess import check_output, CalledProcessError, STDOUT
@@ -136,13 +142,18 @@ def init():
 
     # utilities
     from locks import lockfuncs
-    from scripts.tickerhandler import TICKER_HANDLER as tickerhandler
     from utils import logger
     from utils import gametime
     from utils import ansi
     from utils.spawner import spawn
     import contrib
 
+    # handlers
+    from scripts.tickerhandler import TICKER_HANDLER
+    from server.oobhandler import OOB_HANDLER
+    from server.sessionhandler import SESSION_HANDLER
+    from comms.channelhandler import CHANNEL_HANDLER
+
     # API containers
 
     class _EvContainer(object):

evennia/comms/channelhandler.py

@@ -158,4 +158,5 @@ class ChannelHandler(object):
             self.cached_cmdsets[source_object] = chan_cmdset
             return chan_cmdset
 
-CHANNELHANDLER = ChannelHandler()
+CHANNEL_HANDLER = ChannelHandler()
+CHANNELHANDLER = CHANNEL_HANDLER # legacy

evennia/server/sessionhandler.py

@@ -445,4 +445,5 @@ class ServerSessionHandler(SessionHandler):
             # pass the rest off to the session
             session.data_in(text=text, **kwargs)
 
-SESSIONS = ServerSessionHandler()
+SESSION_HANDLER = ServerSessionHandler()
+SESSIONS = SESSION_HANDLER # legacy