.. _events: *********************************** Special methods and catching events *********************************** This page is a non-exhaustive list of special plugin method names and events catchable via those methods (other events include :ref:`configuration hooks ` and :ref:`HTTP server callbacks `) All methods here are defined in ``supybot-callbacks-plugin``. You may override them if you need, but make sure you call the parent's one unless you actually don't want to do it. In case multiple plugins implement the same special methods, the order they are called depends on the ``callAfter`` and ``callBefore`` (lists of plugin names) attributes of the plugins, if they are set. Loading and unloading ===================== The ``__init__`` method gets called with an Irc object as a parameter when a plugin is loaded (or has just been reloaded). Make sure you always call the parent's ``__init__``. When a plugin is unloaded (or is to be reloaded), the ``die`` method is called (with no parameter). Also make sure you always call the parent's ``die``. Commands and numerics ===================== You can catch commands directly with “do-methods”: when the bot receives a ``PRIVMSG``, all ``doPrivmsg`` methods are called; when it gets a ``437`` message, all ``do437`` methods are called, etc. Those command take two commands: an :ref:`Irc object ` and a :ref:`IrcMsg object `. To get a list of all possible messages, check IRC RFCs. Filters ======= The ``inFilter`` and ``outFilter`` methods allow you to “intercept” messages between the bot and the network and to alter them. ``inFilter`` gets messages just after they are parsed from network; and its return value is fed to the bot. ``outFilter`` does the opposite: it get any message the bot is about the send, and returns a message (which may be the same) that will be sent instead. .. _commands_handling: Commands handling ================= Command dispatching ------------------- .. note:: I wrote this subsection with the little knowledge I have of the commands handling (all I know comes from hacks I made to write the Aka plugin), so keep in mind some informations might be wrong. As for all the documentation, feel free to contact me to correct/enhance it. * ``isCommandMethod`` takes a command name as a string (which may contain spaces) and returns a boolean telling if the plugin provides this command. * ``listCommands`` returns a list of command names as strings (which may contain spaces) * ``getCommand`` takes a potential command name as a list of strings, and returns a truncated list corresponding to the name of a command provided by the plugin. If no command match, it returns an empty list. * ``getCommandMethod`` takes a command name as a list of strings and returns the corresponding method/function. * ``callCommand`` gets a command name as a list of strings, an irc object, an msg object, and extra arguments (with `*args` and `**kwargs`), calls ``getCommandMethod`` to get the command method, and calls it with the arguments. It also calls the functions in ``pre_command_callback``. Pre-command-call callbacks -------------------------- .. note:: Until stock Supybot and Gribble merge this feature, this section only applies to Limnoria If you want a function of your plugin to be called before every command call, you can add it to the ``pre_command_callback`` attribute of your plugin (actually, it is a static class attribute, so make sure you *add* it to the list and don't touch other items of the list). At every command call, *all* callbacks are called, and if *any* of them returns ``True``, the command is not called. Other command-related events ---------------------------- * all ``invalidCommand`` methods get called (with an Irc object, an IrcMsg objet, and a list of token) when a user calls a command that no plugin provides. Regular expression triggered events =================================== The :class:`supybot.callbacks.PluginRegexp` class provides some utilities for creating plugins that act on regular expression matching.