dgw
commented
2 years ago Roadmap TBD, but not rejected. Likely to be looked at simultaneously with #1015.
Open dgw opened 4 years ago
dgw
commented
2 years ago Roadmap TBD, but not rejected. Likely to be looked at simultaneously with #1015.
The problem
Plugins that maintain custom tables or external data stores (e.g. the built-in
tell&remindplugins) may end up holding on to obsolete data with no way to purge it cleanly.The solution
We're already planning to look at adding hooks for IRC events (see #1546), but I'd say Sopel also needs to let plugins register handlers for database events. Minimally, plugins should be able to respond when calls are made to
bot.db.alias_nick(),bot.db.delete_nick_group(),bot.db.merge_nick_groups(), &bot.db.unalias_nick().Alternatives
None, really. I guess periodically checking the plugin's own data against the list of nicks in the core database is an option, but aside from being an absolute kludge, we'd like for plugins not to rely on the core DB table schema (because it's likely to change in a release or two; the current one is pretty silly in places).
Notes
This appears to overlap with #1015, but that's more about letting plugins help decide which value to save when merging nick groups (e.g. combining stats from multiple users instead of overwriting).