announcing CCDR (Cross Charactar Data Repository)

[zgrssd]

I have been think for a while now about making this, and finally started some work.

Description:
Addons are incapable of accessing your other characters data directly, But they are able to store data of one Character in acountwide Saved Variable so it has something to go on when logged in under another Character of the same account.
CCDR (Cross Character Data Repostiory)'s job is to do this collection in a centralised place and give other addons the data without need of reading and storing it themself.
This avoids having data overstored/events oversubscribed and speeds up development of addons that want to show Cross Character data without delving into the details of getting the data.
It will also allow the user to set detailed filters on the data on account and character level. Addons are asked to respect these filters, can set these filters (on user request) but are not required too do either.

Global Settings and settings page will allow to define wich data should be saved (or not) and delete character data (this must be done manually).

Data that will eventually be availible accountwide via CCDR:
List of Players
-> A list of all Characters Names on this account. Required for all other functions, so I might as well expose it.

Horse Data (feeding timers, breed, current values)
-> Global and Character level Filter by horse breed

Research (wich traits are known/unknown/currently in research at each Character)
-> Global and Character "Has Traits" filter per Item class (if you researched something by accident, it does not clutter up your listings of "who knows what")
-> Global and Character "Wants Traits" filter per item class (so you know how wants to learn traits for that item class)
-> Filters will be for the levels "All Blacksmithing" and "specific blacksmithing line".

Hireling Timers (might need manual start of timer)
-> Global and Character Filters based on professsion

Full Character Data (class, level, spend atributes)

Skill Point data (Free points, morphs choosen, experience for each line/skill/morph)

Inventory Data (Everything there is to know (and knowable) about items in the inventory)
-> The bank, guildbank and store listings are already accountwide and thus left to the specific addon

Equipped gear data (Armor, Jewelry, both weapon sets)

Skill bars (5 skills + ultimate)


Current state:
Started work
Was able to indentify Character name and Horse Breeds with help from community.
First release will propably be only Character data, Horse data and some settings.

[ingeniousclown]

You should leverage libraries where possible for this, especially in the places you haven't quite looked at yet.

For example, libResearch might make your life easier in dealing with traits.

[mctaylor]

Are you aware of Vicster's InventoryInsight? At first glance, it sounds like it already does what you are looking for, or perhaps it can be a starting point for you.

[zgrssd]

Originally Posted by mctaylor Are you aware of Vicster's InventoryInsight? At first glance, it sounds like it already does what you are looking for, or perhaps it can be a starting point for you.

Vicsters was part of the reason I started this. It does allow cross discovery of items.
But it lacks filtering and if somebody else wanted to make cross discovery of inventory he would have to do the same work again or deal with how the data is stored/exposed by Vicsters, store the same data again, and the like...

So I do the work once, other peoples can focus on dispalying the data.

[mctaylor]

Originally Posted by zgrssd Vicsters was part of the reason I started this. It does allow cross discovery of items. But it lacks filtering and [...] So I do the work once, other peoples can focus on displaying the data.

Okay. So it sounds like you want to make a cross-character (or account-wide) database library, or at least you want to make a library and perhaps your own addon that uses your CCDR library.

I would echo the idea of utilizing libResearch and libFilters if those fit your needs, as well as talking with Vicsters about making a library that you can both use. Most likely he will be willing to let you use his existing code as long as you acknowledge his contribution, and may be willing to update InventoryInsight to use your library, as it would reduce the amount of code he has to maintain.

Good luck.

[Xanderificus]

You'll do better on searches if you spell "character" correctly.