MB678 continues the progressive decomposition of Mediabot’s Partyline subsystem.

After transport, session/authentication, dispatch, plugin commands, core operator commands, scheduler/operational commands, channel/network visibility, reminder/seen commands, and Karma commands, MB678-IV-G extracts the configuration reload family.

The scope stays deliberately narrow: move the reload implementation without changing configuration APIs, permissions, user-facing behaviour, dispatcher routes, or the historical Mediabot::Partyline method surface.

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🔄 What moved

MB678-IV-G moves the following methods from:

Mediabot/Partyline.pm

into:

Mediabot/Partyline/Commands.pm

Methods moved:

_reload_configuration_file
_cmd_reloadconf
_cmd_reload

This family covers:

• the shared checked configuration reload path;
• .reloadconf;
• Owner-only .reload.

The following families intentionally remain in Partyline.pm:

_cmd_lusers
_cmd_stats
_cmd_rehash
_cmd_restart
...

The extraction therefore remains bounded and does not mix configuration reload with network visibility or IRC lifecycle operations.

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🧱 Structural result

Before MB678-IV-G:

Mediabot/Partyline.pm          : 2675 lines
Mediabot/Partyline/Commands.pm : 2476 lines

After MB678-IV-G:

Mediabot/Partyline.pm             : 2617 lines
Mediabot/Partyline/Commands.pm    : 2552 lines
Mediabot/Partyline/Dispatcher.pm  :  407 lines
Mediabot/Partyline/SessionAuth.pm :  676 lines
Mediabot/Partyline/Transport.pm   : 1012 lines

The original pre-MB678 parent module contained:

6976 lines

It now stands at:

2617 lines

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🧪 Focused validation

A new extraction contract was added:

t/cases/872_mb678_partyline_reload_commands_extraction.t

The historical atomic reload source contract was adapted:

t/cases/587_mb368_atomic_config_reload.t

The targeted validation set covered:

586
587
872

Result:

PASSED : 109/109

The historical method surface was explicitly checked for:

_reload_configuration_file
_cmd_reloadconf
_cmd_reload

Result:

3/3 resolved through Mediabot::Partyline

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🧩 Reload API contract

The shared helper continues to require the real configuration API:

reload()

and explicitly does not reintroduce the obsolete/non-existent:

load()

The extraction preserves:

• checked configuration object availability;
• reload() capability validation;
• failure detection;
• sealed Partyline error reporting;
• Owner-only permission enforcement for .reload;
• logging of successful Owner reloads.

No configuration semantics changed.

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🧹 Small source cleanup

The round also corrected a stale source comment that labelled the _cmd_lusers section as:

.reloadconf

It now correctly documents the .lusers command.

This is documentation-only cleanup and does not alter runtime behaviour.

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⚡ Fast suite with progress

MB679’s new progress mode was used for the first regular MB678 validation round:

perl t/test_commands.pl --fast --progress

The runner selected:

319 of 755 discovered test files

Result:

[====================] 100% [319/319 files | 5811 tests]

PASSED : 5811/5811  (64s)

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🛡️ Security audit

The security audit remained completely green:

RC_AUDIT=0
Verdict: GO — all 11 security invariants hold.

The reload extraction did not weaken any existing authentication, throttling, transport, download-cap, or external-command invariant.

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🔌 Real runtime validation

The development instance restarted successfully:

mediabot@dev : active

The Partyline listener remained available on:

0.0.0.0:23456

A real TCP smoke test produced:

Mediabot Partyline
Please enter your nickname.
Enter your password.

Result:

RC_SMOKE=0

No obvious runtime errors were found in the service journal.

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🏰 Full suite with progress

The complete regression suite was executed using the new progress display:

perl t/test_commands.pl --progress

Result:

[====================] 100% [755/755 files | 14766 tests]

PASSED : 14766/14766  (209s)

No source-contract cleanup round was required after the full suite.

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🧠 Why this matters

Configuration reload is a coherent Partyline responsibility.

Moving it as one unit keeps the parent module smaller while preserving the exact same operational behaviour.

The current Partyline decomposition now has dedicated boundaries for:

• transport;
• session/authentication;
• dispatch;
• plugin commands;
• core operator/session commands;
• scheduler/operational commands;
• channel/network visibility commands;
• reminders and seen-history commands;
• Karma commands;
• configuration reload commands.

No configuration API changed.

No privilege rule changed.

No Partyline protocol changed.

The spellbook stayed the same; the reload incantations simply moved to a better room.

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📦 Commit

Version : 3.4dev-20260821_091303
Commit  : d689416
Branch  : master

🔄 Give Partyline Reload Commands Their Own Room Without Changing the Spellbook

Commit summary:

5 files changed
160 insertions
65 deletions

New test:

t/cases/872_mb678_partyline_reload_commands_extraction.t

The commit was successfully pushed to GitHub.

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🔄 The spellbook never changed. The reload charms simply got their own classroom.