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Project Structure
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Main interface
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The library itself is under the ``telethon/`` directory. The
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``__init__.py`` file there exposes the main ``TelegramClient``, a class
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that servers as a nice interface with the most commonly used methods on
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Telegram such as sending messages, retrieving the message history,
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handling updates, etc.
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The ``TelegramClient`` inherits from several mixing ``Method`` classes,
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since there are so many methods that having them in a single file would
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make maintenance painful (it was three thousand lines before this separation
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happened!). It's a "god object", but there is only a way to interact with
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Telegram really.
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The ``TelegramBaseClient`` is an ABC which will support all of these mixins
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so they can work together nicely. It doesn't even know how to invoke things
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because they need to be resolved with user information first (to work with
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input entities comfortably).
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The client makes use of the ``network/mtprotosender.py``. The
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``MTProtoSender`` is responsible for connecting, reconnecting,
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packing, unpacking, sending and receiving items from the network.
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Basically, the low-level communication with Telegram, and handling
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MTProto-related functions and types such as ``BadSalt``.
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The sender makes use of a ``Connection`` class which knows the format in
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which outgoing messages should be sent (how to encode their length and
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their body, if they're further encrypted).
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Auto-generated code
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===================
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The files under ``telethon_generator/`` are used to generate the code
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that gets placed under ``telethon/tl/``. The parsers take in files in
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a specific format (such as ``.tl`` for objects and ``.json`` for errors)
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and spit out the generated classes which represent, as Python classes,
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the request and types defined in the ``.tl`` file. It also constructs
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an index so that they can be imported easily.
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Custom documentation can also be generated to easily navigate through
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the vast amount of items offered by the API.
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If you clone the repository, you will have to run ``python setup.py gen``
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in order to generate the code. Installing the library runs the generator
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too, but the mentioned command will just generate code.
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