Package Plugin System

This package features feature a built in plugins framework soon. This framework can be used to hook into the propagate method and run as either a pre_invoke or after_invoke (Where invoke is the built in propagate)

All registered extensions must subclass BasePlugin

A plugin can do anything, from AntiProfanity to AntiInvite. Assuming it is class based and follows the required schema you can easily develop your own plugin that can be run whenever the end developer calls await AntiSpamHandler.propagate()

Some plugins don’t need to be registered as an extension. A good example of this is the AntiSpamTracker class. This class does not need to be invoked with propagate as it can be handled by the end developer for finer control. However, it can also be used as a plugin if users are happy with the default behaviour.

Any plugin distributed under the antispam package needs to be lib agnostic, so as to not a dependency of something not in use.

Plugin Blacklisting

Plugins provide a simplistic interface for skipping execution in any given guild. Simply add the guilds id to the set located under the Plugin.blacklisted_guilds variable and then this plugin will not be called for said guild.

Call Stack

• Initially all checks are run, these are the checks baked into AntiSpamHandler

  • You cannot avoid these checks, if you wish to mitigate them you should set them to values that will not be triggered

  • An option to run code before checks may be added in a future version, if this is something you would like, jump into discord and let me know! If I know people want features, they get done quicker

• Following that, all pre-invoke plugins will be run

  • If the guild this was called on is within Plugin.blacklisted_guilds then execution will be skipped and we move onto the next plugin.

  • The ordered that these are run is loosely based on the order that plugins were registered. Do not expect any form of runtime ordering however. You should build them around the idea that they are guaranteed to run before AntiSpamHandler.propagate, not other plugins.

  • Returning cancel_next_invocation: True will result in propagate returning straight away. It will then return the dictionary of currently processed pre_invoke_extensions

• Run AntiSpamHandler.propagate

  • If any pre-invoke plugin has returned a True value for cancel_next_invocation then this method, and any after_invoke extensions will not be called.

• Run all after-invoke plugins

  • If the guild this was called on is within Plugin.blacklisted_guilds then execution will be skipped and we move onto the next plugin.

  • After_invoke plugins get output from both AntiSpamHandler and all pre-invoke plugins as a method argument