For some reason, the server seems to kick us after 1024 items from
the network are received. Tested with the following code, 1022
updates were received, after BadServerSalt, NewSessionCreated and
MsgsAck:
client = TelegramClient(..., spawn_read_thread=False)
client.connect(_sync_updates=False)
sender = client._sender
client = None
while True:
try:
sender.receive(None)
except TimeoutError:
pass
except ConnectionResetError:
sender.connect()
If one were to run this code after being kicked no further items
will be retrieved and it will always timeout. Invoking a ping has
no effect either. Invoking some "high level" request like getState
seems to do the trick.
It was causing some strange behaviour with the synchronized Queue
used by the UpdateState class. Calling .get() with any timeout
would block forever. Perhaps something else got released when
the script ended and then any call would block forever, thus the
thread never joining.
Telegram would refuse to reply any further unless the message ID
had the correct time (causing some behaviour like .connect()
never connecting, due to the first request being sent always
failing). The fix was to use time_offset when calculating the
message ID, while this was right, it wasn't in use.
- Made the documentation even more friendly towards newbies.
- Eased the usage of methods like get history which now set
a default empty message for message actions and vice versa.
- Fixed some docstring documentations too.
- Updated the old normal docs/ to link back and forth RTD.
- Fixed the version of the documentation, now auto-loaded.
Rationale: if the user is doing things right, the penalty for
being friendly (i.e. autocasting to the right version, like
User -> InputPeerUser), should be as little as possible.
Removing the redundant type() call to access .SUBCLASS_OF_ID
and assuming the user provided a TLObject (through excepting
whenever the attribute is not available) is x2 and x4 times
faster respectively.
Of course, this is a micro-optimization, but I still consider
it's good to benefit users doing things right or avoiding
redundant calls.
TLObject's __init__ used to call utils.get_input_* methods and
similar to auto-cast things like User into InputPeerUser as
required. Now there's a custom .resolve() method for this purpose
with several advantages:
- Old behaviour still works, autocasts work like usual.
- A request can be constructed and later modified, before the
autocast only occured on the constructor but now while invoking.
- This allows us to not only use the utils module but also the
client, so it's even possible to use usernames or phone numbers
for things that require an InputPeer. This actually assumes
the TelegramClient subclass is being used and not the bare version
which would fail when calling .get_input_peer().
