Skip to content

Conversation

@ImDevinC
Copy link
Owner

Summary

This PR implements comprehensive code quality improvements across three phases:

  • Phase 1: Critical thread safety and backend initialization fixes
  • Phase 2: Improved error messages and HTTP server lifecycle
  • Phase 3: Extract constants, add rate limiting, type hints, and docstrings

Changes Overview

Phase 1: Thread Safety & Initialization

  • ✅ Add GLib.idle_add() wrappers for all UI updates from background threads
  • ✅ Fix race conditions in AdSchedule, ChatMode, and ShowViewers
  • ✅ Add backend initialization error handling with status tracking

Phase 2: Error Handling & Server Lifecycle

  • ✅ Add descriptive error messages to all action files
  • ✅ Fix HTTP server lifecycle with proper cleanup
  • ✅ Consolidate AdSchedule from 2 threads to 1 efficient thread

Phase 3: Code Quality

  • ✅ Extract magic numbers to constants.py (10 commits)
  • ✅ Implement rate limiting for Twitch API (100 calls/60s)
  • ✅ Add comprehensive type hints to all files
  • ✅ Add docstrings to key classes and methods

Stats

  • Files changed: 12
  • Lines added: 586
  • Lines removed: 236
  • Commits: 10 (all using Angular commit format)

Testing

All changes maintain backward compatibility. The plugin should work identically
to before, but with:

  • No more UI threading crashes
  • Better error visibility
  • Protection against API rate limits
  • Improved code maintainability

Commit Convention

All commits follow Angular format with lines ≤ 100 characters:

  • fix(threading): Thread safety improvements
  • fix(errors): Error handling improvements
  • feat(constants): Configuration constants
  • refactor(config): Extract magic numbers
  • feat(api): Rate limiting implementation
  • feat(types): Type hints additions
  • docs: Documentation improvements

- Wrap UI updates with GLib.idle_add() for thread safety
  - AdSchedule.py: Wrap labels and color updates
  - ChatMode.py: Wrap set_center_label() calls
  - ShowViewers.py: Wrap set_center_label() calls

- Add backend initialization error handling
  - Modified _setup_backend() to return bool
  - Added backend_initialized to track state
  - Added error logging for init failures
  - Updated settings.py to check init status

Fixes race conditions and crashes from UI updates on
non-main threads, provides better error visibility
- Add descriptive error messages to all action files
  - Clip.py: Add context for clip creation failures
  - Marker.py: Add context for stream marker creation failures
  - SendMessage.py: Add channel name in error messages
  - ChatMode.py: Add mode name in toggle/update errors
  - PlayAd.py: Add ad duration in error messages
  - AdSchedule.py: Add specific context for schedule errors

- Fix HTTP server lifecycle in twitch_backend.py
  - Properly cleanup server on disconnect
  - Clean up existing server before creating new one
  - Add error handling for server creation and cleanup
  - Set server references to None after cleanup

- Consolidate AdSchedule threads into single update loop
  - Reduce from 2 threads to 1 consolidated thread
  - Fetch ad schedule every 30s, update display every 1s
  - Eliminate nested loops, improve resource efficiency
Create centralized constants.py for magic numbers
- Create constants.py with timing and OAuth config
- Update all action files to use constants:
  - VIEWER_UPDATE_INTERVAL_SECONDS
  - AD_SCHEDULE/DISPLAY_UPDATE_INTERVAL_SECONDS
  - CHAT_MODE_UPDATE_INTERVAL_SECONDS
  - ERROR_DISPLAY_DURATION_SECONDS
- Update twitch_backend.py to use OAuth constants
- Centralize configuration for easier modification
- Add rate limit: 100 calls per 60 seconds
- Implement thread-safe RateLimiter (sliding window)
- Apply rate limiting to all Twitch API methods
- Rate limiter auto-waits when limit reached
- Prevent hitting Twitch API throttling (800/min)
- Add typing imports: Optional, Callable, Any
- Update twitch_backend.py with complete type hints
- Update main.py with complete type hints
- Add return type annotations to all methods
Add type hints to settings.py and TwitchCore
- Add type hints to all 7 action files
- Add null checks for Optional values
- Import typing (Any, Optional, List, Union)
- Add RateLimiter docstring explaining algorithm
- Add Backend class docstring
- Add docstrings to key Backend methods
- Add PluginTemplate docstring
@ImDevinC ImDevinC force-pushed the phase-1-thread-safety-backend-init branch 2 times, most recently from e15bf37 to f121c4d Compare December 29, 2025 17:30
@ImDevinC ImDevinC merged commit f0ae0d2 into main Dec 29, 2025
2 checks passed
@ImDevinC ImDevinC deleted the phase-1-thread-safety-backend-init branch December 29, 2025 17:34
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

2 participants