WoW API: GetTradePlayerItemLink

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Returns a single value: chat-ready item link.

chatItemLink = GetTradePlayerItemLink(ID);

Parameters

Arguments

(ID)

ID

numeric - index value of the "player's" (your character) trade slots (starts at 1 and proceeds to 6. 7 may be used for the will-not-be-traded-slot.)

Returns

Returns

chatItemLink

chatItemLink

String - a string that can be used to link items in the chat log

Example

for i = 1, 7 do
  chatItemLink = GetTradePlayerItemLink(i);
end

Details

Remember, chatItemLink(s) are different than itemLink parameters needed by many APIs. To properly extract an itemLink from a chatItemLink, here is a neat function:

--[[ Function: extractItemLinkFromChatItemLink
     Purpose: gets an item link string from a chat item link string
     Note: don't ask questions, it works
  ]]
function extractItemLinkFromChatItemLink(message)
  local _, _, _, _itemLink = string.find(message, "(|H(.+)|h)");
  _, _, _itemLink = string.find(_itemLink, "(.-|h)");
  return _itemLink;
end

Here is a chatItemLink Example:

|cffffffff|Hitem:3771:0:0:0|h[Wild Hog Shank]|h|r

Here is an itemLink Example:

item:3771:0:0:0

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