[Opinions Requested] Item Discovery Data Format

I asked about this earlier in a different thread about GU63.  Have the new items from GU63 been exported to the REST API yet?  If not, that explains them not showing up.

 

Here is an update on this.

The new discovery format should begin appearing on the next EQ2 game update (usually on Tuesday mornings, California time).

As previously stated, the new format will be side-by-side in the data with the existing format.  For development purposes, here is an example of what you should see.

XML:

<_extended>    <discovered id="100" charid="429497063519" timestamp="1268602961">        <world_list>            <world id="100" charid="429497063519" timestamp="1268602961"/>        </world_list>    </discovered></_extended>

JSON:

"_extended": {    "discovered": {        "id":100,        "charid": 429497063519,        "timestamp": 1268602961,        "world_list": [            {                "id":100,                "charid": 429497063519,                "timestamp": 1268602961            }        ]    }}

-dan

 

More clarification...the new format will be intertwined with the original format.  Here is a better example...

"_extended": {    "discovered": {        "charid": 1559073155791,        "id": 363,        "timestamp": 1332448305,        "from_120": {            "charid": 515398188875,            "timestamp": 1286905400        },        "from_121": {            "charid": 519692772503,            "timestamp": 1286908198        },        "from_2": {            "charid": 8589992644,            "timestamp": 1285903877        },        "world_list": [            {                "charid": 1559073155791,                "id": 363,                "timestamp": 1332448305            }        ]    }}

Once you have moved to use the new format, simply ignore the "from_*" parts until this gets cleaned up.

-dan

 

I've been working on migrating my code to the new format, and can't find a way to query for a list of items discovered by a specific charid using the new format.  The above query would only return a list of game-wide discoveries, not server-wide <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Any suggestion?

 

Lantis, 

Will this do what you're looking for?

[url="census.daybreakgames.com/xml/get/eq2/item/?_extended.discovered.world_list.charid=446678606263">census.daybreakgames.com/xml/get/eq2/item/?_ext...id=446678606263[/url]

 

That seems to work, thanks!  (I didn't think to try world_list.charid, only tried world_list.world.charid)

I now got PHP code that can pull the list of discoveries, and locally sort them so I can easily get the newest one (for example).