Gamecog

This Baseclass is used for specific game cog implementations.

A cog is a module that integrates with discord-py’s event scheduler, allowing multiple modules to function independently.

Bridges a game channel and a discord channel.

Child classes

• Minecraft Cog
  • Commands
  • Log Filter
• Factorio Cog

Internal

• Identifiers
  • Follows three situations:
  • Protocols:

Currently Handles * Channel header updates with playercount and status

(header_update(), update_channel_header())

• Online player list (length is count)

  (get_player_list() & is_player_online())

• Reading container logs on a set interval

  (read_messages(), read())

• Filtering container logs

  (`filter`()) * Operating filter output queue

  (handle_message())

  • Adding new players to database

    (handleconnection())

• Changing existing playernames to match accountID

  (get_uuid())

• Sending messages to container stdin

  (send())

• Event on discord messages to send to contianer stdin

  (on_disc_message())

ACTION: Needs refactoring into subclasses