BREAKING: Make streaming use json hooks

mastodon/Mastodon.py

@@ -1083,8 +1083,8 @@ class Mastodon:
 
         return (date_time_utc - epoch_utc).total_seconds()
 
-
-    def __json_date_parse(self, json_object):
+    @staticmethod
+    def __json_date_parse(json_object):
         """
         Parse dates in certain known json fields, if possible.
         """
@@ -1100,7 +1100,8 @@ class Mastodon:
                     raise MastodonAPIError('Encountered invalid date.')
         return json_object
 
-    def __json_id_to_bignum(self, json_object):
+    @staticmethod
+    def __json_id_to_bignum(json_object):
         """
         Converts json string IDs to native python bignums.
         """
@@ -1118,9 +1119,10 @@ class Mastodon:
 
         return json_object
     
-    def __json_hooks(self, json_object):
-        json_object = self.__json_date_parse(json_object)
-        json_object = self.__json_id_to_bignum(json_object)
+    @staticmethod
+    def __json_hooks(json_object):
+        json_object = Mastodon.__json_date_parse(json_object)
+        json_object = Mastodon.__json_id_to_bignum(json_object)
         return json_object
 
     def __api_request(self, method, endpoint, params={}, files={}, do_ratelimiting=True):

mastodon/streaming.py

@@ -6,11 +6,10 @@ https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/docs/Using-the-API/Streaming-A
 import json
 import logging
 import six
-
+from mastodon import Mastodon
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-
 class MalformedEventError(Exception):
     """Raised when the server-sent event stream is malformed."""
     pass
@@ -40,6 +39,7 @@ describing the status."""
         """The server has sent us a keep-alive message. This callback may be
         useful to carry out periodic housekeeping tasks, or just to confirm
         that the connection is still open."""
+        pass
     
     def handle_stream(self, lines):
         """
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ describing the status."""
                 self.handle_heartbeat()
             elif line == '':
                 # end of event
-                self._despatch(event)
+                self._dispatch(event)
                 event = {}
             else:
                 key, value = line.split(': ', 1)
@@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ describing the status."""
         if event:
             log.warn("outstanding partial event at end of stream: %s", event)
 
-    def _despatch(self, event):
+    def _dispatch(self, event):
         try:
             name = event['event']
             data = event['data']
-            payload = json.loads(data)
+            payload = json.loads(data, object_hook = Mastodon._Mastodon__json_hooks)
         except KeyError as err:
            six.raise_from(
                MalformedEventError('Missing field', err.args[0], event),