From now on, ideally any function with "get" in the name should always
return a valid value. A function with "find" in the name, however, does
the same thing, but may also return an invalid result such as an error
code.
These changes include storing monsters on shutdown, storing dead
characters and monsters, etc. Also fleshed out the MonsterManager's
internals a bit.
(cherry picked from commit af982710f6de050c09ef503cf2f8e1c9fdd34979)
I need to devise a way to update the clients about changes to their
characters directly from the lua scripts. This isn't too important per se,
but the pattern will be important for the monster and trigger systems.
ManagerInterface was already designed for those two anyway. The only thing
left to do is to rewrite the room API, and the whole thing should work
fine again.
I still think map data should be saved and loaded by lua code, so the
rooms will still implement lua hooks. There may be other things that can
be loaded from SQL, but I don't know what.
I'm salvaging the changes to AccountManager and CharacterManager that
don't break the build too badly. This won't build, but it'll be easier to
rectify.
Also, I've reduced the length of the manager's method names, and renamed
sql_utility.*pp to sql_tools.*pp
This will allow the to be reused elsewhere, as well as cleaning up big
blocks of code in the manager's source.
BUGFIX: The config's key-value pair overrides now work without requiring a
config file specification.
Kayne Ruse