think I finished reworking the event system

added http log reading support for debugging remotely
started working on unit test framework

SharedLibraryCore/Database/DatabaseContext.cs

@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ namespace SharedLibraryCore.Database
                 currentPath = !RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows) ?
                     $"{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}{currentPath}" :
                     currentPath;
+                // todo: fix later
+
                 var connectionStringBuilder = new SqliteConnectionStringBuilder { DataSource = $"{currentPath}{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}Database.db".Substring(6) };
                 var connectionString = connectionStringBuilder.ToString();
                 var connection = new SqliteConnection(connectionString);
@@ -98,22 +100,28 @@ namespace SharedLibraryCore.Database
 
             // adapted from
             // https://aleemkhan.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/dynamically-adding-dbset-properties-in-dbcontext-for-entity-framework-code-first/
-#if !DEBUG
-            foreach (string dllPath in Directory.GetFiles($"{Utilities.OperatingDirectory}Plugins"))
-#else
+//#if DEBUG == TRUE
+//           // foreach (string dllPath in Directory.GetFiles($"{Utilities.OperatingDirectory}Plugins"))
+//#else
+//todo: fix the debug thingie for entity scanning
             IEnumerable<string> directoryFiles;
-            try
+
+            string pluginDir = $@"{Environment.CurrentDirectory}{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}bin{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}Debug{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}netcoreapp2.0{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}Plugins";
+
+            if (!Directory.Exists(pluginDir))
             {
-                directoryFiles = Directory.GetFiles($@"{Environment.CurrentDirectory}{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}bin{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}Debug{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}netcoreapp2.0{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}Plugins").Where(f => f.Contains(".dll"));
+                pluginDir = $@"{Environment.CurrentDirectory}{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}Plugins";
+
+                if (!Directory.Exists(pluginDir))
+                {
+                    pluginDir = Utilities.OperatingDirectory;
+                }
             }
 
-            catch (Exception)
-            {
-                directoryFiles = Directory.GetFiles($@"{Environment.CurrentDirectory}{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}Plugins").Where(f => f.Contains(".dll"));
-            }
+            directoryFiles = Directory.GetFiles(pluginDir).Where(f => f.Contains(".dll"));
 
             foreach (string dllPath in directoryFiles)
-#endif
+//#endif
             {
                 Assembly library;
                 try

SharedLibraryCore/Event.cs

@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ namespace SharedLibraryCore
                                     queuedEvent.Type != EventType.Connect &&
                                     queuedEvent.Type != EventType.Join &&
                                     queuedEvent.Type != EventType.Quit &&
+                                    queuedEvent.Type != EventType.Disconnect &&
                                     // we don't care about unknown events
                                     queuedEvent.Origin.NetworkId != 0;
         }

SharedLibraryCore/Interfaces/IGameLogReader.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace SharedLibraryCore.Interfaces
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// represents the abtraction of game log reading
+    /// </summary>
+    public interface IGameLogReader
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// get new events that have occured since the last poll
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="server"></param>
+        /// <param name="fileSizeDiff"></param>
+        /// <param name="startPosition"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        ICollection<GameEvent> EventsFromLog(Server server, long fileSizeDiff, long startPosition);
+        /// <summary>
+        /// how long the log file is
+        /// </summary>
+        long Length { get; }
+        /// <summary>
+        /// how often to poll the log file
+        /// </summary>
+        int UpdateInterval { get; }
+    }
+}

SharedLibraryCore/Localization/Layout.cs

@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ namespace SharedLibraryCore.Localization
             get
             {
                 if (!Set.TryGetValue(key, out string value))
-                    throw new Exception($"Invalid locale key {key}");
+                {
+                   // throw new Exception($"Invalid locale key {key}");
+                   return $"unknown locale key {key}";
+                }
                 return value;
             }
         }

SharedLibraryCore/PluginImporter.cs

@@ -15,8 +15,21 @@ namespace SharedLibraryCore.Plugins
 
         public static bool Load(IManager Manager)
         {
-            string[] dllFileNames = Directory.GetFiles($"{Utilities.OperatingDirectory}Plugins{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}", "*.dll");
-            string[] scriptFileNames = Directory.GetFiles($"{Utilities.OperatingDirectory}Plugins{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}", "*.js");
+            string pluginDir = $"{Utilities.OperatingDirectory}Plugins{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}";
+            string[] dllFileNames = null;
+            string[] scriptFileNames = null;
+
+            if (Directory.Exists(pluginDir))
+            {
+                dllFileNames = Directory.GetFiles($"{Utilities.OperatingDirectory}Plugins{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}", "*.dll");
+                scriptFileNames = Directory.GetFiles($"{Utilities.OperatingDirectory}Plugins{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}", "*.js");
+            }
+
+            else
+            {
+                dllFileNames = new string[0];
+                scriptFileNames = new string[0];
+            }
 
             if (dllFileNames.Length == 0 &&
                 scriptFileNames.Length == 0)

SharedLibraryCore/RCon/Connection.cs

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ namespace SharedLibraryCore.RCon
         ILogger Log;
         int FailedSends;
         int FailedReceives;
-        DateTime LastQuery;
+        static DateTime LastQuery;
         string response;
 
         ManualResetEvent OnConnected;

SharedLibraryCore/Utilities.cs

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ namespace SharedLibraryCore
     {
         public static string OperatingDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location) + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar;
         public static Encoding EncodingType;
-        public static Localization.Layout CurrentLocalization;
+        public static Localization.Layout CurrentLocalization = new Localization.Layout(new Dictionary<string, string>());
 
         public static string HttpRequest(string location, string header, string headerValue)
         {