This implements the changes suggested in
<https://github.com/ammaraskar/pyCraft/issues/146#issuecomment-738914064>,
i.e.:
1. `minecraft.networking.Connection.disconnect' now correctly terminates the
new networking thread if it is still waiting to replace the old one, and
2. `minecraft.networking.Connectoin._handle_exception' no longer calls
`disconnect' if any exception handler has initiated a new connection.
After 1.16.3, Mojang started publishing snapshot, pre-release and release
candidate versions of Minecraft with protocol version numbers of the form
`(1 << 30) | n' where 'n' is a small non-negative integer increasing with each
such version; the release versions continued to use the old format. For
example, these are the last 8 published Minecraft versions as of this commit:
release 1.16.3 uses protocol version 753
pre-release 1.16.4-pre1 uses protocol version 1073741825 == (1 << 30) | 1
pre-release 1.16.4-pre2 uses protocol version 1073741826 == (1 << 30) | 2
release candidate 1.16.4-rc1 uses protocol version 1073741827 == (1 << 30) | 3
release 1.16.4 uses protocol version 754
snapshot 20w45a uses protocol version 1073741829 == (1 << 30) | 5
snapshot 20w46a uses protocol version 1073741830 == (1 << 30) | 6
snapshot 20w48a uses protocol version 1073741831 == (1 << 30) | 7
This means that protocol versions no longer increase monotonically with respect
to publication history, a property that was assumed to hold in much of
pyCraft's code relating to support of multiple protocol versions. This commit
rectifies the issue by replacing any comparison of protocol versions by their
numerical value with a comparison based on their publication time.
Newly defined is the dictionary `minecraft.PROTOCOL_VERSION_INDICES', which
maps each known protocol version to its index in the protocol chronology. As
such, the bound method `minecraft.PROTOCOL_VERSION_INDICES.get` can be used as
a key function for the built-in `sorted`, `min` and `max` functions to collate
protocol versions chronologically.
Two utility functions are provided for direct comparison of protocol versions:
`minecraft.utility.protocol_earlier` and
`minecraft.utility.protocol_earlier_eq`.
Additionally, four methods are added to the `ConnectionContext` type to ease
the most common cases where the protocol of a given context must be compared to
a given version number:
`minecraft.connection.ConnectionContext.protocol_earlier`,
`minecraft.connection.ConnectionContext.protocol_earlier_eq`,
`minecraft.connection.ConnectionContext.protocol_later` and
`minecraft.connection.ConnectionContext.protocol_later_eq`.
* added decorator example to connection.rst
since decorators are more pythonic, it was put in front of the register method.
* Expanded listener decorator docstring
* changed autofunction to autodecorator
* removed whitespace in empty line
* remvoed trailing whitespace
i didn't even edit there WTF
* Add multi-attribute aliases to some packets, for user convenience.
* Add support for writing PlayerListItemPacket.
* Add 'fields' attributes to manually-read/written packet classes,
implementing 'field_string' where appropriate to allow enable the
default __repr__ implementation.
* Modify data constructors where appropriate so that __repr__
implementations match their constructor protocols.
* Improve comments on type aliases within packet classes.
* Add/modify tests to cover the new functionality.
