OBS - there is a new data table (for the persistent cache) so you need to sync or restart with your database.
* Persistent cache (pcache)- this works the same as the volatile cache, except it is regularly saved to disk and recovered upon restart. How often the pcache is backed up is set in preferences. This was heck of a tricky thing to get right due to the intricacies of pickle; for example it turns out there is a bug in cPickle, so only normal pickle works to store the cache objects.
* Persistent events - this makes use of the pcache to re-load the scheduled events every reload. Only events with the property "persistent" will be saved this way (if not set, events will get lost upon reboot, just like now). All the main system events have been implemented as persistent events, including a new event to regularly save the pcache to disk.
* In order to track persistent event timers across reboots, there is also a global "game time" defined now. This is saved in cache and counts seconds only when the server is running. Event timers are adjusted with an offset when restarting (otherwise they will be confused by the real time jumping forward after a downtime). There are also a small set of helpful routines in src/gametime.py to help convert from real time to game time (for easy creation of new events).
* Various info commands have been updated to incoorporate the time stamp and the cache sync information.
* There are a few test commands commented out in commands/general.py that I used for testing; I left them in if you want to test things quickly. It works here, but as always more people testing is needed.
/Griatch
At the moment this only works with the initial IRC channel (the one set in preferences),
those channels you add later with @ircjoin does not add as Services; when setting it up
they add just fine, but the bot does not connect - I don't know why (code is commented out
in src/commands/irc.py).
/Griatch
@service/list will show you the service names. If you see that your IMC has died due to an error, @service/start IMC2 will get it up and running again. I've also added an 'imcstatus' command to show more detailed information about your IMC2 connection.
As a side-effect of all of this, logging in more than once acts as behaves now. Also, this will allow things/rooms/exits (IE: not players) or un-logged in players to run commands or be forced to run them via @fo. All of this will bring us more in-line with MUX behavior.
- The command handler has been drastically simplified. We were doing way too much processing in the handler that should have been done in the individual command functions themselves.
- The 'cdat' dict we were previously passing around has been replaced with a Command object that has useful methods for performing some of the parsing command functions will probably want to do from time to time.
- All commands were updated to use the new Command object, tested, and cleaned up in general.
- A lot of formatting was cleaned up.
- A lot of previously un-found bugs and limitations were fixed.
- The 'page' command has been broken out into its own file, since it's going to have a number of functions that would otherwise clutter commands/general.py.
Expect a commit (probably later today) that will clean up the second half of cmdhandler.py.
