This is the work from May 3rd.. need to commit it so i can merge the
flood protection that is related to this...
The final implementation will still need tweaking before pushed.
[skip ci]
1) HOOKTYPE_CAN_SEND is now called HOOKTYPE_CAN_SEND_TO_CHANNEL
The arguments and return values are unchanged
2) similarly can_send() is now called can_send_to_channel()
3) If you want to block or alter a message you must now
use HOOKTYPE_CAN_SEND_TO_CHANNEL and return HOOK_DENY from
there with an appropriate *errmsg filled (see nocolor and
many other modules for an example)
4) You CANNOT use HOOKTYPE_PRE_USERMSG anymore to block a message.
I actually wanted to rip this hooktype out entirely, but
delayjoin needs it. HOOKTYPE_PRE_USERMSG is only useful for
notification that a message is going to be sent BEFORE it is
actually sent (which is exactly what delayjoin needs, so it
can send a JOIN if the user is currently invisible).
5) This is all to make things more clean:
* HOOKTYPE_PRE_USERMSG is only for delayjoin
* HOOKTYPE_CAN_SEND_TO_CHANNEL is used for exactly what the
name implies. You can also change the message text there,
such as for +G, +S, etc.
This so I - and others - don't constantly have to wonder whether the client
is called sptr, cptr or acptr in a simple routine.
Insane --> 212 files changed, 6814 insertions(+), 6945 deletions(-)
Couldn't just mass-replace of course since there are places where there
are multiple clients involved. So had to check each function.
Also renamed some 'acptr' to 'target' and such.
I will write a page with new style rules later.. but in short if there is
only 1 client involved it will now be called 'client'.
MOD_UNLOAD. And MOD_HEADER(xyz) is now MOD_HEADER even without ()
since this isn't a function, really.
To make things understandable I added the following to the
developer section of the release notes:
* The module header is now as follows:
ModuleHeader MOD_HEADER
= {
"nameofmodule",
"5.0",
"Some description",
"Name of Author",
"unrealircd-5",
};
There's a new author field, the version must start with a digit,
and also the name of the module must match the loadmodule name.
So for example third/funmod must also be named third/funmod.
* The MOD_TEST, MOD_INIT, MOD_LOAD and MOD_UNLOAD functions no longer
take a name argument. So: MOD_INIT(mymod) is now MOD_INIT()
This so we have a few simple concepts:
Client: this can be a user, server, or something unknown yet
Then the type of clients:
User: this is a user, someone with a nick name.
Server: this is a server
Etc.
aChannel to Channel, and some more. Third party module coders will
love this. But.. it makes things more logical and the doxygen output
will look more clean and logical as well.
(More changes will follow)
and remove old dependency field (never used, was always NULL,
broken since 3.2.x)
I'll add some constraints later on things like names and versions.
IOTW: more changes to follow, don't mass update your own mods yet.
that need to be visible from the outside of the .DLL (symbol export).
Long story short: you never need to use this yourself in a module.
Where needed it is already handled by UnrealIRCd.
Bram Matthys