ESPDevice class and init function

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Class for ESP objects and init function.

Goal

The objective is to construct a class tailored for ESP objects. These objects will contain variables crucial for ESP functionality, including the ESP's MAC address, registered usernames, unique ID, vote status, registration confirmation topic string, and vote topic string. Additionally, the class maintains a count of created objects. The initialization function should accept a MAC address and an optional registered username.

Arguments

• MAC address: Identifier for the ESP.
• Optional registered user: An optional username associated with the ESP. Defaults to "NULL" if left empty.

Object variables

• self.macaddress: Copied from the initialization function argument.
• self.registeredUser: Copied from the initialization function argument, defaults to "NULL" if left empty.
• self.uniqueID: A randomly generated unique string assigned to each device.
• self.registrationConfirmationTopicString: A unique string denoting the topic address where the ESP expects directed messages.
• self.voteTopicString: A unique string indicating the topic address from which the server should read messages from the ESP.

Returns

• nothing

[MagnusLii]

class Esp:

    registredESPs = 0

    def __init__(self, mac_address, registeredUser='NULL',):
        self.mac_address = mac_address
        self.registeredUser = registeredUser

        self.uniqueID = random.randint(1, 10)  # Needs to be changed later.
        self.voteStatus = 'pass'  # default value is pass.

        self.registration_confirmation_topic = registrationResponeTopic + self.mac_address

        Esp.registredESPs += 1

[MagnusLii]

Having a class for ESPs on the Flask server makes handling ESP related data and requests a headache as all data needs to be updated on the objects and DB. This function is deprecated.