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At present I cannot seem to find a way to determine the talents chosen for the pets of a Hunter nor is there an *easy* way to determine the type of pet it is without having a lookup table of every pet id with its type.

This is something that *is* available on the wowarmory and SimulationCraft makes use of this information when importing Hunters from the Armory. This is pretty much the only remaining obstacle we have in terms of SimulationCraft supporting the new API.

If there is some way to retrieve this information could someone please share?

I'm running into the same issue. I currently get this data from the HTML version of the new armory pet page which has it embedded into the Javascript, but it does not seems to be currently implemented in the API and this is the main thing holding me back from switching to the new API.

Agreed. Trying to put in some implementation for Rawr along these lines has the same issue. We have switched to the JSON api since the Hunter model is non-functional as it was, but this is just another hurdle for whoever may pick up that model.

What I've had to do for now is to grab the appropriate JSON data out of the pet HTML page (which conveniently enough has all the data I need) and get everything else from the API. It's extremely inefficient though, so I hope they address it soon.

i do as well... but then we might as well go all out we want
PET:
class
type
health
talents (both stored specs)
stats(any we can get)
aperance

but i dout any of those happaning

Any update on this issue given that the wowarmory will no longer allow us to pull the talents and whatnot that is currently not in the API starting Tuesday?

Even if it's just an update to what values we will be able to pull from (not necessarily if it's implemented yet or not)

Additionally, I was trying to pull this data from in-game via an addon, and I can only access the current talents of the current pet only when summoned. So there's no GetTalentInfo() for a stabled pet. That would be a useful addition.

yes it would but its not able to be done ingame i explored this some time ago...

Soo....Straton....any update?

08/01/2011 02:57 PMPosted by Straton

Soo....Straton....any update?

No, sorry.

"No, sorry, no update"? Or "no, sorry, we're not doing this"? ;)

"No,sorry. No schema information yet"

yes char and guild is imp

08/07/2011 09:10 AMPosted by Straton

"No, sorry, no update"? Or "no, sorry, we're not doing this"? ;)

"No, sorry, no update"

This is something that we would like to do, but it is unscheduled and slightly less important (I know, everything is relative AND arguable) than getting the character and guild achievement data APIs out.

No worries, I'm very well aware about the fun of large-scale software projects. It's cool to know it's at least somewhere in your backlog. :)

I would like to thank you Straton for implementing the pet class type and spec.

Though I have to ask....Glyphs for pets...is there something your not telling us? :p

*does a Dr. Evil pinky to mouth move*

In all seriousness, for those who are not following, the API was changed so that the currently equipped pet will show the Talent information. This will not show the talent info for any non-equipped pets. The pet talents work in the same way as the player talent info, hence the Glyph joke.

name: "Wolfie"
creature: 30430
selected: true
slot: 0
-
talents: {
selected: true
name: "Ferocity"
icon: "ability_druid_kingofthejungle"
build: "210000031300003010111000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
-
trees: [
-
{
points: "210000031300003010111"
total: 17
}
-
{
points: "00000000000000000000"
total: 0
}
-
{
points: "0000000000000000000000"
total: 0
}
]
-
glyphs: {
prime: [ ]
major: [ ]
minor: [ ]
}
}

name: "Ravager"
creature: 16934
selected: true
slot: 1
-
talents: {
selected: true
name: "Cunning"
icon: "ability_eyeoftheowl"
build: "000000000000000000000000000000000000000002100000023300002110020"
-
trees: [
-
{
points: "000000000000000000000"
total: 0
}
-
{
points: "00000000000000000000"
total: 0
}
-
{
points: "2100000023300002110020"
total: 17
}
]
-
glyphs: {
prime: [ ]
major: [ ]
minor: [ ]
}
}

I'm glad to see that the currently in use pet is now supported in the API. But I'm a little concerned that it's the only one available. Are there still plans to include all the other pet talents as is available in the HTML armory?

Without that functionality, I suppose I could change my site so that only the currently selected pet is imported, but that means that if folks logged with the wrong pet they'd have to manually select the pet and setup the pet talents (assuming they didn't match my default spec button). Before I go to the trouble of rewriting the site to work with only the one pet, I'd like to know if this is just a temporary situation or all the data we're going to receive long term.

this seems to be the active pet thats talents are read..

It's been awhile since I inquired on this issue, but since it seems the API work is becoming a bit more active I thought I'd check again. The active pet talents are helpful, but what's missing still is the ability to find out what type of pet (i.e. raptor, wolf, etc.). I use this information to identify which buffs the pet will provide when importing a character to my site. Is there any chance this could be added?

This information is provided on the HTML version of the armory, but not in the API. If it could be added I could remove the additional query to the HTML version I'm currently using to load the pet information.