Empty server map change causes dedimania problems

[TomRiddle01]

Maniaplanet seems to automatically change maps when a server is empty.
This can be seen on servers with no time-limit on rounds (e.g. rpg servers).
This leads to dedimania not beeing synced correctly.

Expected Behavior

Any numer of players drives dedimania-records on an (rpg-)server with no round-duration and leaves after that.
While the server is empty and the map is switched due the undesired map switch by Maniaplanet.
Expected: The dedimania records are saved either way.

Actual Behavior

After these obscure random map-changes the dedimania times disappear (or were never uploaded to dedimania).
Maybe it is because the map_end signal is not triggererd.

Steps to Reproduce (including precondition)

1. Disable TimeAttack round duration (set to -1)
2. Drive a dedimania record.
3. Leave the Server and keep it empty
4. Wait for a map-change
5. Check if dedimania record was uploaded or not.

Additional Notes

I don't believe this has to do with Issue #791 .
A possible solution might be to upload the dedimania records in set intervals (e.g. 5 minutes) or as soon as a player leaves.
This seems to be the undesired map-switch https://forum.maniaplanet.com/viewtopic.php?t=46148&p=309215

Your Environment

• OS: Debian Buster
• PyPlanet version: 0.7.4
• Python version: 3.7.6

[TheSuperNoob]

I believe the problem here is that the listener for podium_start never gets triggered. This is when dedi times are sent. This never gets triggered because the server does a quick skip after 4 hours and there are no active players on the server (It will still skip if there are spectators) and does not play the podium sequence.

If its possible to move the dedi trigger to the map_end event I believe this could fix it.

Additionally according to This dedimania page: dedimania.SetChallengeTimes at the end of map (sending all players best time -new records or not-, and get the new records list),

So sending new dedi times should only happen at the end of the map.
I believe if you try to send new dedimania times many times during one map it might complain at you, so its best to only send dedimania times once per map.

[TheMaximum]

Sending the times is done on map_end, however retrieving the replays is done on podium_start. I don't know if the replays are available on map_end...

[TheMaximum]

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