Changelog

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Releases

Note

The library first started as a single file script that I didn’t make versions of. When I decided to turn it into a library, I’ve set the version number based on the amount of commits I have made since the start.

Glossary

[Breaking change]

Means that the change will break functionality from previous version.

[Potentially breaking change]

The change could break functionality from previous versions but only if it was used in a certain way.

Releases

v2.3.6

• Fixed voice not working due to Discord’s API changes.

v2.3.5

• Fixed typechecked module error

v2.3.4

• Fixed channel verification bug:

  • Fixes bug where messages try to be sent into channels that have not passed verification (complete button)

v2.3

• [Breaking change] Removed exceptions module, meaning that there are no DAFError derived exceptions from this version on. They are replaced with build-in Python exceptions.

• Automatic scheme generation and management:

  • daf.guild.AutoGUILD class for auto-managed GUILD objects.

  • daf.message.AutoCHANNEL class for auto-managed channels inside message.

• Debug levels:

  • Added deprecated to TraceLEVELS.

  • Changed the daf.core.run()’s debug parameter to accept a value from TraceLEVELS, to dictate what level trace should be displayed.

• Messages objects period automatically increases if it is less than slow-mode timeout.

• The data_function’s input function can now also be async.

v2.2

• user_callback parameter for function daf.core.run() can now also be a regular function instead of just async.

• Deprecated daf.dtypes.EMBED, use discord.Embed instead.

• [Breaking change] Removed get_sql_manager function.

• daf.core.run():

  • Added logging parameter

  • Deprecated parameters server_log_output and sql_manager.

• Logging manager objects: LoggerJSON, LoggerCSV, LoggerSQL

• New daf.logging.get_logger() function for retrieving the logger object used.

• daf.core.initialize() for manual control of asyncio (same as daf.core.run() except it is async)

• SQL:

  • SQL logging now supports Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases.

  • [Breaking change] LoggerSQL’s parameters are re-arranged, new parameters of which, the dialect (mssql, sqlite, mysql, postgresql) parameter must be passed.

• Development:

  • doc_category decorator for automatic documentation

  • Removed common module and moved constants to appropriate modules

v2.1.4

Bug fixes:

• Fix incorrect parameter name in documentation.

v2.1.3

Bug fixes:

• [Bug]: KeyError: 'code' on rate limit #198.

v2.1.2

Bug fixes:

• #195 VoiceMESSAGE did not delete deleted channels.

• Exception on initialization of static server list in case any of the messages had failed their initialization.

v2.1.1

• Fixed [Bug]: Predefined servers' errors are not suppressed #189.

• Support for readthedocs.

v2.1

• Changed the import import framework to import daf. Using import framework is now deprecated.

• remove_after parameter:

  Classes: daf.guild.GUILD, daf.guild.USER, daf.message.TextMESSAGE, daf.message.VoiceMESSAGE, daf.message.DirectMESSAGE

  now support the remove_after parameter which will remove the object from the shilling list when conditions met.

• Proxies:

  Added support for using proxies. To use a proxy pass the daf.run() function with a proxy parameter

• discord.EmbedField:

  [Breaking change] Replaced discord.EmbedField with discord.EmbedField.

• timedelta:

  start_period and end_period now support timedelta object to specify the send period. Use of int is deprecated

  [Potentially breaking change] Replaced start_now with start_in parameter, deprecated use of bool value.

• Channel checking:

  daf.TextMESSAGE and daf.VoiceMESSAGE now check if the given channels are actually inside the guild

• Optionals:

  [Potentially breaking change] Made some functionality optional: voice, proxy and sql - to install use pip install discord-advert-framework[dependency here]

• CLIENT:

  [Breaking change] Removed the CLIENT object, discord.Client is now used as the CLIENT class is no longer needed due to improved startup

• Bug fixes:

  Time slippage correction:

  This occurred if too many messages were ready at once, which resulted in discord’s rate limit, causing a permanent slip.

  

  Fig. 3 Time slippage correction

  Slow mode correction:

  Whenever a channel was in slow mode, it was not properly handled. This is now fixed.

v2.0

• New cool looking web documentation (the one you’re reading now)

• Added volume parameter to daf.VoiceMESSAGE

• Changed channel_ids to channels for daf.VoiceMESSAGE and daf.TextMESSAGE. It can now also accept discord.<Type>Channel objects.

• Changed user_id/ guild_id to snowflake in daf.GUILD and daf.USER. This parameter now also accept discord.Guild (daf.GUILD) and discord.User (daf.USER)

• Added .update method to some objects for allowing dynamic modifications of initialization parameters.

• daf.AUDIO now also accepts a YouTube link for streaming YouTube videos.

• New Exceptions system - most functions now raise exceptions instead of just returning bool to allow better detection of errors.

• Bug fixes and other small improvements.

v1.9.0

• Added support for logging into a SQL database (MS SQL Server only). See Relational Database Log (SQL).

• daf.run() function now accepts discord.Intents.

• daf.add_object() and daf.remove_object() functions created to allow for dynamic modification of the shilling list.

• Other small improvements.

v1.8.1

• JSON file logging.

• Automatic channel removal if channel get’s deleted and message removal if all channels are removed.

• Improved debug messages.

v1.7.9

• daf.DirectMESSAGE and daf.USER classes created for direct messaging.