This makes the StateHandler functional. To reduce the
number of server roundtrips when fetching/updating the
state, the entire state is fetched ocne at bot
initialization and cached. All changes are stored in the
cache and only saved externally after handle_message()
has been executed.
Fixes#141.
With this change, StateHandler.put() does only accept JSON-able
objects by default. The incrementor test tried to store the return
value of send_reply(), a non-JSON-able MockObject, in the state.
Therefore, this commits also sets functional default test return
values for send_message() and send_reply().
Finally, it fixes the tictactoe bot which relied on directly
modifying the state_ attribute.
unittest includes by default all module-level classes that inherit
from TestCase and implement at least one method starting with 'test'.
Since it doesn't provide a convenient way for excluding TestSuites,
we need to manually filter out the unwanted testing of our test base
class itself.
No bot is dependant on this module. No
future bot should be dependant on it,
since it is not a bot itself and is thus
blurring the structure of the bots dir.
This simplifies testing stateful bots by integrating the StateHandler
into the test library. As a side-effect, the mock bot handler gets
reused during a test, making the tests more realistic. The
StateHandler now keeps its state during a call to check_expected_responses,
forcing some stateful tests to be more verbose and explicit.
The Zulip server, starting in 1.7, no longer sends
`is_mentioned` in the message payload, and it was buggy in
earlier versions, so now we check `flags`.
This commit does the following:
* Minor improvements to the writing wherever possible.
* Replace links to screenshots with links that would work when
rendering said screenshots on the main repo. This would mean
the screenshots won't be rendered outside the main repo.
* Adds a section that links to our Bots Guide's How to run a bot
tutorial by using a Markdown a macro.
These functions were rendered redundant by changes in our
approach on how the main repo renders docs and logos contained
in the zulip_bots package (see #6103). So, these should now be
removed.
