Added a @deluser command and gave it and @boot an option to give a reason for booting/deleting a player
Fixed a bug in @dig that confused exit directions in text
Small bug fixes
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The suggestions: footer used in help gave too narrow results, now using apropos-style search instead.
Bug fix of state-help command to make it accept switches.
Added several new example commands and cleaned up old ones to be more user-friendly.
Added protection in @delevent to make it harder to delete system events.
Some small bug fixes and other cleanup.
Object commands used to require re-adding every call in the script parent's __init__ or factory functions, adding the commands to a new command table directly on the object. Since all other attributes can be set up in at_object_creation(), this was both inconsistent and a bit confusing to work with. There is now a method add_commands() directly defined on all objects. It takes the same arguments as the normal add_command()o but use a reserved attribute to create and update a command table on the object. This has the advantange of completely removing the __init__ call in the script parent, all definitions can now be kept in at_object_creation() and are, more importantly, persistent without having to be recreated every call.
- I updated the examine command to show all the commands defined on an object (if any).
- I updated gamesrc/parents/examples/red_button.py considerably using the new command methodology and also using the updated Events.
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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.
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- added PIDs to all events, so they can be deleted safely.
- scheduler.del_event(pid) cleanly deletes events from the scheduler
- added @delevent for deleting events based on PID (@ps shows this now)
- Events has a self.repeat property allowing them to only be repeated a certain time (default is infinitely many times). After the set number of repeats, the event deletes itself from the scheduler.
Events are currently not persistently stored; this is left for future commits.
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* OBS - doing e.g. self.scripted_obj.myvariable = variable was always iffy and since a few revisions back this will NOT work - this is because the objects are now consistently synced with the database (in the past this was not done consistently which caused strange behaviour).
* Fixed some bugs in the multi-word command handler. It can handle multi-word exits as well now.
Fixed bug in create_object that sometimes caused rooms to be created with a location !=None
Expanded @destroy to better handle names and not just dbrefs.
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Added the permission genperms.admin_nostate so that builders can avoid entering a state when working on a room with a state-changing parent. Superusers have to set the flag ADMIN_NOSTATE on themselves to achieve the same effect (this is necessary since superusers always have all permissions, so they would otherwise never be able to enter states).
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The main drawback of multi-word commands are that they can not have any switches; they are intended for in-game use (in states and on objects). Use normal one-word commands for administration and more complex commands with many options.
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The help entry database structure has changed! You have to resync or purge
your database or your will get problems!
New features:
* Help entry access now fully controlled by evennia permissions
* Categories for each help entry
* All entries are created dynamically, with a See also: footer calculated
after the current state of the database.
* Indexes and topic list calculated on the fly (alphabetically/after category)
* Added auto-help help entries for all default commands.
* Only shows commands _actually implemented_ - MUX help db moved into 'MUX' category
which is not shown by default.
* More powerful auto-help markup - supports categories and permissions (and inheritance).
* Global on/off switch for auto-help, when entering production
* Auto_help_override switch for selectively activating auto-help when developing
new commands (like the old system).
* Refactored State help system; no more risk of overwriting global help entries.
* State help now defers to main help db when no match found; makes system more transparent.
* State help entries also support categories/permissions (state categories are not
used much though).
Other updates:
* Added more commands to the batch processor
* Many bug-fixes.
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Added AttrKeys and FlagKeys - locks depending on the value of the unlocker's attribute or if they have a flag set.
Finally I updated @lock to handle all these lock types. There are a large amount of possible configurations though, so more testing is needed.
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The main command to use is @lock, which accept three types of locks at the moment, and three types of keys:
Locks: DefaultLock, UseLock, EnterLock
Keys: ObjectIDs, Groups, Permissions
This offers the most useful functionality - stopping people from picking up things, blocking exits and stopping
anyone from using an object.
If the attributes lock_msg, use_lock_msg and enter_lock_msg are defined on the locked object, these will be used
as error messages instead of a standard one (so "the door is locked" instead of "you cannot traverse that exit").
Behind the scenes, there is a new module, src/locks.py that defines Keys and Locks. A Locks object is a collection
of Lock types. This is stored in the LOCKS attribute on objects. Each Lock contains a set of Keys that might be
of mixed type and which the player must match in order to pass the lock.
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- changed @chperm to @setperm to avoid confusion with channel commands
- added @setgroup command for adding user group permissions
- Moved permissions/group setup into settings file to allow admins to tweak without going into evennia engine.
- Add all new players to default permission group (defined in settings)
- Defined a basic group hierarchy, removed permission 'genperms.builder' in favour of a group named builders instead, containing all relevant permissions.
- Filtered out all django's automatic permissions in @setperm/list to make permission system more controlled by admin.
- Probably fixed bug that caused new users to not be signed up to channels (more testing needed)
- Added Exception handler in unloggedin method create, this was killing tracebacks upon user creation.
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You can also view all groups and their permissions. At the moment groups have no permissions assigned to them from the onset though, so groups are not very useful out of the box.
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* Added @copy command (builders only)
* Moved the greeting for first-time logins into a hook in basicplayer
* Fixed bug in @set to handle whitespace better
* Added the /drop switch to @create
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The @dig command now accepts the specification of parents for all entries (room and all exits). In principle it also supports ALIASes for each exit, but the ALIAS attribute does not seem to be operational at the moment.
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Other small bugfixes, fixes to @dig to properly call creation hooks of all newly created objects (it was not setting anything before). Also fixed some of the annoying bugs around using several of the building commands that didn't properly handle spaces around the separator = symbol.
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after one another several times. IMC is not seeing the IRC channel name anymore, output should be on the standard
simple name@MUD: msg format as far as IMC is concerned.
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from a special-format batchfile. It is intended for large-scale offline world creation (especially things like room descriptions),
where a real text editor is often easier to use than online alternatives. The @batchprocess also has an /interactive mode which allows
stepping through the batch script, allowing to only execute selected entries; e.g. for editing/updating/debugging etc. There is
an example batchfile in the gamesrc/commands/examples directory.
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For example, before the fix, you could face the following issue: Create a bunch of boxes with @create:
box, box1, box2, box3 ... Now try to examine 'box'. This would not work - the game would tell you that there
were multiple matches - it just found "box" in all entries and went with that. So despite there only being one
thing named solely "box", you could not target it! This fix resolves this by giving precedence to exact matches
whenever they exist. I have only done it for the support routine behind local_and_global_search() though, there
are other search functions that uses django directly for fuzzy __in searches. I don't know how to add a similar
functionality to them.
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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).
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Added a 'clear' argument to addcom as a shortcut to clearcom.
Changed addcom to now change the alias to a new one if giving the command on an already subscribed channel.
Added the exception in command handler so that giving the channel alias without argument gives an error instead
of sending None to the channel.
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