From 982d1b5a0d7580cf4723ea45b210dfa5ae712ad6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Weiss <awe@pdgn.co>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:18:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added a function to access the tokio reactor handle in
 IrcReactor.

---
 src/client/reactor.rs | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/client/reactor.rs b/src/client/reactor.rs
index 0d4847e..54d75d2 100644
--- a/src/client/reactor.rs
+++ b/src/client/reactor.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 use futures::{Future, Stream};
 use futures::future;
-use tokio_core::reactor::Core;
+use tokio_core::reactor::{Core, Handle};
 
 use client::data::Config;
 use client::server::{IrcServer, IrcServerFuture, Server};
@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ impl IrcReactor {
         self.handlers.push(Box::new(future))
     }
 
+    /// Returns a handle to the internal event loop. This is a sort of escape hatch that allows you
+    /// to take more control over what runs on the reactor using `tokio`. This can be used for
+    /// sharing this reactor with some elements of other libraries.
+    pub fn inner_handle(&self) -> Handle {
+        self.inner.handle()
+    }
+
     /// Consumes all registered handlers and futures, and runs them. When using
     /// `register_server_with_handler`, this will block indefinitely (until failure occurs) as it
     /// will simply continue to process new, incoming messages for each server that was registered.