get weapontype and armortype?
 

I've been looking for a function or global that maps the research line and craft to a type, such as bow (or woodworking, 1) for an arbitrary item.

It's easy enough to differentiate between weapons and armor, but how do you tell what specific type of weapon something is?

Something like craft, line = GetReasearchLine(bag,slot), or GetWeaponType(bag,slot)

Any ideas? I couldn't find anything in the api that looked right.

I guess I could parse a tooltip. That worked in wow.

If someone knows of an api function, please lmk.

You could also parse the item's icon. Icons always (AFAIK) say what weapon type or armor type they are, with one exception: all staves use the same icon so there is no granularity in that.

Your tooltip parsing idea may be used to further granulate staves into types, however...

If you figure out how to parse the tooltip, let me know. I've gone over it for 1-2 weeks. ;)

Looks like this has been added. Yay.

Thanks for posting that on reddit, ingeniousclown.

You're very welcome!

You might find this useful, too:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info517-libResearch.html

lol, just finished writing my own.

It was pretty convoluted to have to convert the armor/weapontype to researchlines. Had to go open the crafting stations to see the order.

Now that that exists, though, here's a quick preview of one of the things mine does so far....

Well, here's a bit of an annoyance.


ZOS added the GetItemArmorType(link) and GetItemWeaponType(link), but that is quite incomplete compared to existing ItemFunctions(bag,slot).

Specifically, there's no way to tell what traits are on an item just using the link.

This matters a lot, because you also cannot call GetItemTrait(bag,slot) on an item in the loot window (e.g.).

So now we need something like GetItemTraitLink(link).

Anyone see a workaround to get trait info just from the info that can be gleaned from a link (or the loot window)?

I don't think that means that the new functions are incomplete, it just means that the whole item API is just kinda... everywhere. I was pretty surprised when I first saw the announcement of the two new functions, as the new functions using ItemLink to get that info kind of clashes with the rest of the functions that use bagId and slotIndex.

As a result, it is easy to get all the necessary information of an item from the API if it exists in a bagId and slotIndex space. Is the loot window set in some temporary bag for the player, by chance? Like the guild bank? I'm guessing no, but it's worth asking.

I was under the impression that the community (more specifically, Aiiane I believe) had deciphered all the itemlink information, but the new functions almost seem to suggest that the information was in the itemLink the whole time. I kinda wanna research this more, but I don't even know if I'll remember any of this once I get home from work :P

But assuming what I said is true... all relevant information may be in the itemLink as one of the many optional variables... And if so, someone may need to write a library to parse out that information.

Yeah, i was writing a library, but i think the link info is basically an item index that includes the item/trait into a database (different indices for same item with each trait), and [the link data contains] a bunch of info for the enchantment and style and level and quality. It seems odd that traits aren't there [in the link data instead of the item index], but I couldn't find them. It's possible it's a bit tag across 4 or 5 bits in the item index.

I definitely did a test where I made an item with and without a trait, and the data fields were identical, although iirc the item index was different.

Using a link allows it to work on basically all items since you can always get a link, but you can't always get a bag,slot. So it'll work in chat and loot bags.

Loot bags and even your equipped inventory are different (although you can use bag 0 for that) than bag,slot inventory. The get loot info api calls are highly different, and largely incomplete, compared to the inventory info stuff.

All they need to give us is a way to parse the raw tooltip data, before any addon made changes.

Looks like 1.3 may have added all this to links!