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Posted by Philburt on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:47:02
How can I find the name of the person who created an auction? I know that using
name,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,buyoutPrice,_,_,owner,_=GetAuctionItemInfo("list",index)
will give me the name and buyoutPrice of an auction, but often the name is nil.I understand that the owners' name is coded somehow, and that it takes more time for the name to be returned in a usable format, but I can't work out how to do this sensibly.
I've read some comments that I should try re-getting the auction info for a few seconds until the 'owner' is no longer nil, but while this would be ok for a single item, or even a 50 item page, it is not feasible for a whole auction house scan.
With over 15000 items, adding just 2 seconds to each would result in a scan taking over 8 hours.
My main objective is to create a table containing all the current AH items, but without any of my characters auctions in the list. There may be an obvious method of doing this, but I just can't see it. Any ideas?
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Posted by jnwhiteh on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:57:54
None. Your best bet is to look at AuctionLite and Auctioneer and see how they handle the issue (if at all). I do know there was a massive issue with getAll and owners, but I obviously wasn't very involved in that.