Add chat_link field to /v2/items

[tivac]

Would also like to add to /v2/continents, /v2/skills, /v2/recipes, and /v2/traits but those don't have example files yet.

[codemasher]

Oh, pregenerated chatcodes for the lazy - isn't that a bit over the top? :D
It'd be actually cooler if the game would fully support itemstack chatcodes (infusions are missing).

[tivac]

Chat codes are weird, and the less bit-fiddling people need to understand to get access to them the better.

Barking up the wrong tree for changes to game support though, sorry.

[codemasher]

the less bit-fiddling people

There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary and those who don't! (€: syntax error)

(Anyway, fair enough, doesn't hurt )

[lye]

Also some other things appear to have acquired chat links.

_>

[sliekens]

Does a separate endpoint for chat links sound like a good idea?

/v2/chatlinks/:type/:id?params

Examples

• /v2/chatlinks/items/47941 -> [&AgFFuwAA]
• /v2/chatlinks/items/47941?suffix_item=24732 -> [&AgFFuwBAnGAAAA==]
• /v2/chatlinks/items/47941?suffix_item=24732&skin=5730 -> [&AgFFuwDAYhYAAJxgAAA=]
• /v2/chatlinks/items/12138?quantity=250 -> [&AvpqLwAA]
• /v2/chatlinks/traits/223 -> [&CN8AAAA=]
• /v2/chatlinks/coins/100 -> [&AWQAAAA=]

Considering that people still need to fiddle with bits to get any sort of customization for their chat links.

[Artanis]

@StevenLiekens This is more of a remote procedure call (RPC): you're giving the server item parameters and it does the calculating for you. There's no way this can be pre-calculated like chatlinks in the item definition; there's too many (4 billion in the coins example alone).

There's no need to have the server do that for us. If you need detailed chatlinks like this, use or write a client-side library for that purpose.

[codemasher]

A reference on chatlink/itemstack en-/decoding would be welcome. Implementing on the other hand isn't that hard... bit-fiddling though.
https://github.com/codemasher/gw2-database/blob/master/classes/gw2api.class.php#L264

[darthmaim]

Yep, an official reference implementation of chatlinks parsing/creating like the actual game does would be great.