LibInspect ?

[scotepi]

GUID is fixed. I had it hard coded into one of my addons for a debug mode for months without issue.

[kunda]

Originally Posted by scotepi

I would love to have a inspect library that addon could share.
Some features:
- Take inspect in the form of unitID, UnitName(), GUID
- Hook the fields that you want to know ie. item level, stam, resilliance, guild, spec or just return everything available
- Correct all the inspect bugs in Blizzards code
- Return initial information and then a followup function when all information is available
- Caching of inspect information for the session however the registering addon and specify max cache age

I would be a little interested in writing this however I have no idea how to write a library.

Take a look at more than 15000 (much more if you look at all data/gearstats files) lines of code: CharScanner (http://www.wowace.com/addons/charscanner/). CharScanner gives you a complete char/gear scan (including all available gems/reforge/enchs/sets(cata) stats and nearly 1000 achievements (PvE/PvP), spec, guild, and more) in round about 0.4 seconds. No other addon is that fast! ~0.4 seconds! (try to beat that...)

There is NO bug in the inspect code from Blizzard!!!
The problem is: different addons that try to inspect (use inspect events without check for the 10sec/6events restriction introduced with Patch 3.3.5) and not the inspect code from Blizz! Main culprit: libraries/addons that always try to get spec/shitlvl from everyone.(mouseover...haha...lag)

Originally Posted by egingell

Also, I'm 60% sure the GUID is not always the same for the same player. I'm unsure when they change, possibly when the server reboots, or maybe even when you relog.

Originally Posted by inthedrops

Can someone confirm this? It wasn't what I expected and am working on something that is using player guid.

The character GUID is always the same and the character GUID is unique in the whole Blizz(WoW) universe (because of the battlegroups identifier that was introduced with Patch 3.1). A character is getting a new GUID by creation; this GUID only changes if this character is transfered to another server or if you change faction on your server.

[scotepi]

Originally Posted by kunda

Take a look at more than 15000 (much more if you look at all data/gearstats files) lines of code: CharScanner (http://www.wowace.com/addons/charscanner/). CharScanner gives you a complete char/gear scan (including all available gems/reforge/enchs/sets(cata) stats and nearly 1000 achievements (PvE/PvP), spec, guild, and more) in round about 0.4 seconds. No other addon is that fast! ~0.4 seconds! (try to beat that...)

Nice sales pitch, lol

Thats kind of what I would like to see just in library form or atlest a open data structure that other addons can use. ie. those "rate, score or measure!" addons

[Ketho]

Originally Posted by kunda

this GUID only changes if this character is transfered to another server or if you change faction on your server.

If we are talking about GUIDs; I have actually tested this myself on the previous 4.1.0 PTRs, and the GUID of my test character(s) did not change at all after the following tests ...

• Sex Change
• Name Change
• Race Change
• Faction Change

Note: I don't have anything about the GUID on transferring server, although it's very likely I guess

[scotepi]

I have a basic inspect lib for items. I'm wondering if anyone else would be interested in it. I only has 4 real functions, I can't really think of any more.

INSPECT:AddHook(name, callback);
    ex. INSPECT:AddHook('AddonName', function(guid, items) YourFunction(guid, items); end);
    
INSPECT:RemoveHook(name);

INSPECT:GetItems(target, force);
    returns items, age, guid, refreshing
    refreshing is true if a InspectNotify(target) was fired, look for a callback in 1sec
    
INSPECT:CacheAge(maxAge);
    lowest wins
    
Note: cache is reset on UI reload, its not to replace your own caching mechanism

It doesn't do anything with throttling inspects because I can't find and usful information about the limits.

[Phanx]

OP has created a thread for this library. Further discussion should take place there:
http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=19804