did what I said I would sooner than I thought I would. centralised persisting timers through bot restarts.

IRCBot.py

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ class Bot(object):
         self.events = EventManager.EventHook(self)
         self.timers = []
         self.events.on("timer").on("reconnect").hook(self.reconnect)
+        self.events.on("boot").on("done").hook(self.setup_timers)
 
     def add_server(self, id, hostname, port, password, ipv4, tls,
             nickname, username, realname, connect=False):
@@ -36,9 +37,24 @@ class Bot(object):
         for server in self.servers.values():
             self.connect(server)
 
-    def add_timer(self, event_name, delay, **kwargs):
+    def setup_timers(self, event):
-        timer = Timer.Timer(self, event_name, delay, **kwargs)
+        for setting, value in self.find_settings("timer-%"):
-        timer.set_started_time()
+            id = setting.split("timer-", 1)[1]
+            self.add_timer(value["event-name"], value["delay"], value[
+                "next-due"], id, **value["kwargs"])
+    def timer_setting(self, timer):
+        self.set_setting("timer-%s" % timer.id, {
+            "event-name": timer.event_name, "delay": timer.delay,
+            "next-due": timer.next_due, "kwargs": timer.kwargs})
+    def timer_setting_remove(self, timer):
+        self.timers.remove(timer)
+        self.del_setting("timer-%s" % timer.id)
+    def add_timer(self, event_name, delay, next_due=None, id=None, **kwargs):
+        timer = Timer.Timer(self, event_name, delay, next_due, **kwargs)
+        if id:
+            timer.id = id
+        else:
+            self.timer_setting(timer)
         self.timers.append(timer)
     def next_timer(self):
         next = None
@@ -50,10 +66,11 @@ class Bot(object):
     def call_timers(self):
         for timer in self.timers[:]:
             if timer.due():
-                print(timer.event_name)
                 timer.call()
                 if timer.done():
-                    self.timers.remove(timer)
+                    self.timer_setting_remove(timer)
+                else:
+                    self.timer_setting(timer)
 
     def register_read(self, server):
         self.poll.modify(server.fileno(), select.EPOLLIN)

IRCServer.py

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ class Server(object):
             context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23)
             self.socket = context.wrap_socket(self.socket)
         self.cached_fileno = self.socket.fileno()
+        self.bot.events.on("timer").on("rejoin").hook(self.try_rejoin)
     def __repr__(self):
         return "%s:%s%s" % (self.target_hostname, "+" if self.tls else "",
             self.port)
@@ -177,11 +178,12 @@ class Server(object):
         self.send("PING :%s" % nonce)
     def send_pong(self, nonce="hello"):
         self.send("PONG :%s" % nonce)
-    def try_rejoin(self, timer, channel_name, key):
+    def try_rejoin(self, event):
-        if channel_name in self.attempted_join:
+        if event["server_id"] == self.id and event["channel_name"
-            self.send_join(channel_name, key)
+                ] in self.attempted_join:
+            self.send_join(event["channel_name"], event["key"])
     def send_join(self, channel_name, key=None):
-        self.attempted_join[channel_name.lower()] = None
+        self.attempted_join[channel_name.lower()] = key
         self.send("JOIN %s%s" % (channel_name,
             "" if key == None else " %s" % key))
     def send_part(self, channel_name, reason=None):

Timer.py

@@ -1,22 +1,27 @@
-import time
+import time, uuid
 
 class Timer(object):
-    def __init__(self, bot, event_name, delay, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, bot, event_name, delay, next_due=None, **kwargs):
+        self.id = uuid.uuid4().hex
         self.bot = bot
         self.event_name = event_name
         self.delay = delay
+        if next_due:
+            self.next_due = next_due
+        else:
+            self.set_next_due()
         self.kwargs = kwargs
         self._done = False
         self.call_count = 0
 
-    def set_started_time(self):
+    def set_next_due(self):
-        self.started_time = time.time()
+        self.next_due = time.time()+self.delay
 
     def due(self):
         return self.time_left() <= 0
 
     def time_left(self):
-        return (self.started_time+self.delay)-time.time()
+        return self.next_due-time.time()
 
     def call(self):
         self._done = True
@@ -26,7 +31,7 @@ class Timer(object):
 
     def redo(self):
         self._done = False
-        self.set_started_time()
+        self.set_next_due()
 
     def done(self):
         return self._done

modules/in.py

@@ -10,40 +10,8 @@ class Module(object):
         bot.events.on("received").on("command").on("in").hook(
             self.in_command, min_args=2,
             help="Set a reminder", usage="<time> <message>")
-        bot.events.on("received").on("numeric").on("001").hook(
-            self.on_connect)
         bot.events.on("timer").on("in").hook(self.timer_due)
 
-    def on_connect(self, event):
-        self.load_reminders(event["server"])
-
-    def remove_timer(self, target, due_time, server_id, nickname, message):
-        setting = "in-%s" % nickname
-        reminders = self.bot.database.get_server_setting(server_id, setting, [])
-        try:
-            reminders.remove([target, due_time, server_id, nickname, message])
-        except:
-            print("failed to remove a reminder. huh.")
-        if reminders:
-            self.bot.database.set_server_setting(server_id,
-                setting, reminders)
-        else:
-            self.bot.database.del_server_setting(server_id,
-                setting)
-
-    def load_reminders(self, server):
-        reminders = server.find_settings("in-%")
-        for user_reminders in reminders:
-            for target, due_time, server_id, nickname, message in user_reminders[1]:
-                time_left = due_time-time.time()
-                if time_left > 0:
-                    self.bot.add_timer("in", time_left, target=target,
-                        due_time=due_time, server_id=server_id, nickname=nickname,
-                        message=message)
-                else:
-                    self.remove_timer(target, due_time, server_id, nickname,
-                        message)
-
     def in_command(self, event):
         seconds = Utils.from_pretty_time(event["args_split"][0])
         message = " ".join(event["args_split"][1:])
@@ -51,12 +19,6 @@ class Module(object):
             if seconds <= SECONDS_MAX:
                 due_time = int(time.time())+seconds
 
-                setting = "in-%s" % event["user"].nickname
-                reminders = event["server"].get_setting(setting, [])
-                reminders.append([event["target"].name, due_time,
-                    event["server"].id, event["user"].nickname, message])
-                event["server"].set_setting(setting, reminders)
-
                 self.bot.add_timer("in", seconds,
                     target=event["target"].name, due_time=due_time,
                     server_id=event["server"].id, nickname=event["user"].nickname,
@@ -77,5 +39,3 @@ class Module(object):
                     "%s, this is your reminder: %s" % (
                     event["nickname"], event["message"]))
                 break
-        self.remove_timer(event["target"], event["due_time"],
-            event["server_id"], event["nickname"], event["message"])