Modifying Addon Constants

So far, this has gone without mention, but the `Addon` class takes in a `constants` argument. This page will go over that.

What is AddonConstants?

As said, Addon takes in a constants argument. We can pass a custom AddonConstants instance to override the default constants.

The constants dictate how long a token takes to expire, the tick rate for the on_tick event, how long since the last request from SWToPython to declare that the addon has stopped, etc.

Using Custom Constants

Simply pass in a custom AddonConstants instance to the constants argument of Addon.

# ...

constants = AddonConstants(
    TICK_INTERVAL = 4, # tps = 64 / TICK_INTERVAL, so this would make the TPS 16
    CALL_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 5 # calls will error after 5 seconds if they don't get a response
)

addon = Addon(
    "My Addon",
    path = ".",
    port = 2500,
    
    constants = constants
)

# ...

TICK_INTERVAL should always be 2 or above. Setting to 1 would mean on_tick would be fired 64 times a second, which is 2x more than HTTP can keep up with. Therefore, if you was to use addon.call (or other similar methods) every tick, the queue would keep growing and growing until it gets too much.