Make the timers available on the before_beacon event

[hanoii]

I was working to create a visualization similar to the episodes framework, not sure if you've seen it, but it's a graphic timeline of the timers, with an idea of where along the timeline each timer was started and its duration.

I noticed that right now, the only thing I have on the before_beacon event is the vars, which I admin it's about the only information useful for statistics, but I wonder what harm could it make to make a little bit more things available to it?

I am talking specifically about.
// If we reach here, all plugins have completed
impl.fireEvent("before_beacon", impl.vars);

What about making the whole impl object available?

Probably a bit too much, and what about making also impl.timers available?

Something like:
// If we reach here, all plugins have completed
impl.fireEvent("before_beacon", impl.vars, impl.timers);

I don't mind rolling a patch on my fork, but may for this one it was worth the question first.

[bluesmoon]

yeah, I'd rather not send in the entire impl object, since it could be modified, but it may be fine to send in the timers object as well. You can send in a patch, or I'll get to it in time.

[hanoii]

I was trying to submit a patch to this, however it has proven to be a little more complicated that I first thought. timers is not on that impl.object because it's only on the impl object of the rt plugin.

I am not sure what's the best approach to do here. One of the reasons I'd like to have the timers, which is kind of selfish reason, is because I like the visualization the episodes framework gives in a way it creates a timeline of events, so with the timers I would be able to build that, still like to have it, so..

1. One option might be to add the timers object directly as a var and then have the beacon function ignore object vars when building the actual beacon. (not very elegant).
2. Another option might be to have a whole different repository of data instead of vars, such as impl.extra, or impl.data and have a function analog to addVar called addData in which the plugins can add Data to it, and that object will also be passed along to the before_beacon timer or any other place where this can be handy.

Just thinking out loud a bit, if you actually like one of these let me know and I'll try to work on it.