moduvent 4.0

A lightweight, modular event system for Python applications with plugin architecture support.

Moduvent - Python Event-Driven Framework

A lightweight, modular event system for Python applications with plugin architecture support.

Features

🎯 Simple and intuitive event subscription and emission

🧩 Dynamic module loading system for extensibility

📝 Comprehensive logging with Loguru integration

🏗️ Class-based event handlers with metaclass support

🔧 Type annotations throughout for better development experience

Installation

pip install moduvent

Quick Start

Everything below can be imported from the moduvent package.

Define a custom event

We say an event holds data that is relevant to a certain type of event. For example, a UserLoggedIn event might hold the user ID and timestamp of the login.

class UserLoggedIn(Event):
    def __init__(self, user_id, timestamp):
        self.user_id = user_id
        self.timestamp = timestamp

Subscribe your events

Once you finished defining your events, you can subscribe some functions (both bound methods and unbound functions) to them using the subscribe decorator for unbound functions and subscribe_method for bound methods.

# Unbound function
@subscribe(UserLoggedIn)
def handle_user_login(event):
    """Once a UserLoggedIn event is emitted, this function will be called."""
    # use your event data!
    print(f"User {event.user_id} logged in at {event.timestamp}")

# Bound method
class UserManager(EventAwareBase):
    @subscribe_method(UserLoggedIn)
    def on_user_login(self, event):
        """Once a UserLoggedIn event is emitted, this method will be called."""
        # use your event data here!
        print(f"UserManager noticed login: {event.user_id}")

    # !!IMPORTANT:
    # When you are subscribing a static or class method, you should always KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING since the subscription will be registered every time the class is instantiated.
    # This in most cases is not what you want.
    @subscribe_method(UserLoggedIn)
    @staticmethod
    def handle_user_login(event):
        """Static method can also be subscribed to events."""
        # use your event data here!
        pass

    @subscribe_method(UserLoggedIn)
    @classmethod
    def handle_user_login_cls(cls, event):
        """Class method can also be subscribed to events."""
        # use your event data here!
        pass

# Or also subscribe it by hand
register(handle_user_login, UserLoggedIn)

The regirstration of a bound method is realized by inherting from the EventAwareBase class, which provides a metaclass that automatically registers the class method as an event handler when the class is instantiated.

Emit events

if __name__ == "__main__":
    emit(UserLoggedIn(user_id=123, timestamp="2023-01-01 12:00:00"))
    # or anywhere else in your code

Unsubscribe events

You can unsubscribe subscriptions in many ways:

# Unsubscribe a function from an event type
remove_callback(handle_user_login, UserLoggedIn)
# or
remove_callback(a_user_manager_instance.handle_user_login, UserLoggedIn)

# Unsubscribe a function from all event types
remove_function(handle_user_login)

# Unsubscribe all functions from an event type
clear_event_type(UserLoggedIn)

Module System

Moduvent includes a dynamic module loader for plugin architecture:

from moduvent import discover_modules

# Load all modules from the 'modules' directory (default)
discover_modules()

# Or specify a custom directory
discover_modules("plugins")

This will try to load all modules in the specified directory and register their event handlers if possible.

Logging

By default, Moduvent uses loguru for logging and all logging messages are hidden. You can configure the logger object to enable logging.

# in your files
from loguru import logger

# This is strongly recommended to avoid duplicate logs
# For more info, see: https://loguru.readthedocs.io/en/stable/resources/troubleshooting.html#why-are-my-logs-duplicated-in-the-output
logger.remove()

# add your own handlers
logger.add(...)

When it comes to detailed configuration, please refer to the loguru documentation.

API Reference

Core Classes

• Event: Base class for all events

• EventManager: Central event system coordinator

• EventAwareBase: Base class for event-handling components

• ModuleLoader: Dynamic module loader

Decorators

• subscribe(*event_types): Decorator for functions to subscribe to events

• subscribe_method(*event_types): Decorator for class methods

Functions

• register(func: Callable[[Event], None], event_type: Type[Event]): Register a function as an event handler

• emit(event): Emit an event to all subscribers

• discover_modules(modules_dir="modules"): Discover and load modules from a directory

• remove_callback(func: Callable[[Event], None], event_type: Type[Event]): Unsubscribe a function from an event type

• remove_function(func: Callable[[Event], None]): Unsubscribe a function from all event types

• clear_event_type(event_type: Type[Event]): Unsubscribe all functions from an event type

Module Structure

Modules should be placed in a directory (default: modules) with a structure similar as the following:

modules/
    analytics/
        __init__.py
        events.py
        ...
    auth/
        __init__.py
        ...
    notifications/
        __init__.py
        ...

Configuration

Moduvent uses loguru for logging, which can be configured using the logger object.

from moduvent import logger

# Intercept standard logging
logger.add(
    "moduvent.log",
    rotation="10 MB",
    retention="10 days",
    level="DEBUG"
)

TODOs

• Event priorities and consequences

• Customized exception handling

• Cached callbacks

• Optimized data structures of _subscriptions

• Handling duplicate subscriptions

• Documentation of events

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.