Add event system based on a public dispatch method in Client. The new
event system bases itself on two types of events, internal event
handlers and user defined event handlers. Internal event handlers begin
with 'handle_', and user defined events begin with 'on_'. Events are
dispatched with dispatch(event_name, *args). The Client class should be
subclassed and the on_<event> handlers defined in it for responding to
events. The handle_<event> handlers can the overridden to override the
behaviour of the Client class, though this is not recommended.
The subclassing method allows separation of the instance of the client
and the code that handles it. (i.e. you don't need the instance of the
client object to define event handlers for it). Though, the old method
of using the event decorator from the instance will still be supported.
_keep_alive_handler would set up another keep alive after the first one
by creating a new threading.Timer object, but Client would only keep
track of the first timer object. Thus casing the keep alive to continue
running after Client.logout calls cancel() on it's timer object, as it
no longer references the actual timer object waiting for the keep alive.
Fix by replacing _keep_alive_handler with a threading.Thread subclass
that sends keep_alives of the given interval and exits when its stop
event is set.
When cycling through the attributes of the data json 'author' within 'message' which was previously a user object is overwritten with a dictionary. This causes an AttributeError to be thrown ( and silently swallowed... thanks except: pass) whenever any of its attributes are referenced in the form message.author.x. User data should change in this step and the user object should not be modified for any reason so its safe to skip updating it.
Hornwitser
Rapptz
megamit