Usage of GetItemInfo()

[Borkan]

Hi,

i tried the new function GetItemInfo(id) after receiving the current patch (german version) and always receive nil values with the following code snippet:

[...]
itemLink = GetTradeSkillItemLink(skillIndex)
[...]
name, link, quality, minLevel, class, subclass, maxStack = GetItemInfo(itemLink);

"name" is always nil, although "itemLink" looks good (I print it in my debugging output). It fails for items I just have created, so they have to be in my local cache. Has anybody a solution, or some code snippet that works?

PS.: I tried it with the real name of the items, too (GetTradeSkillItemInfo(skillIndex) and didn't succeed.

[Beladona]

the item has to be in your local cache or else it will return nil. It is a limitation they included recently because linking an item that was not in your local cache or the server's (after a reboot) would cause you to get disconnected immediately. Now it just returns nil...

[Borkan]

Originally Posted by Beladona the item has to be in your local cache or else it will return nil. It is a limitation they included recently because linking an item that was not in your local cache or the server's (after a reboot) would cause you to get disconnected immediately. Now it just returns nil...

I created the item, I looked at it, I sold it, what else have I to do, to put it in my local cache? ;-) Nothing helped, I always got "nil".

[Iriel]

How much of the item link are you sending in. Contrary to how the function may have been described, you need to strip off all of the other display junk, and get it down to just the

item:XXXXX:XXX:XXX:XXX

form.

[Borkan]

Thank you very much, that was the trick. :-) The WoW interface functions should be a little bit more precise about their wanted data-types.

[Kaelten]

optionally you can also just send the short ID instead of the link

[shamaz]

Hello

I have exactly the same problem, but uh I'm a beginner ... How can I get the "Item:XXXXX:XXX:XXX:XXX form" or the itemID with the itemLink ?

itemLink = GetInventoryItemLink("player", 16);
goodLink = WhatShouldIPutHere( itemLink ); ??
name, link, quality, minLevel, class, subclass, maxStack = GetItemInfo( goodLink );

[Kaelten]

check the code for KC_Items, I have functions that do both.

[shamaz]

Originally Posted by Kaelten check the code for KC_Items, I have functions that do both.

Thank you very much !
I found everything in KC_Items_Core.lua. There's a lot of helpful methods in you mod