WoW Classic: GetSpellLink broken?
 

I've done a bunch of testing and GetSpellLink seems to always just return the name of the spell, not a link at all.

Am I doing something wrong? Is this a known/acknowledged issue?

It's intentional, iirc vanilla did not have spell links

Then why even include the function? Interestingly, Blizzard addons use GetSpellLink. So just a lazy conversion from Retail?

GameTooltip:SetHyperLink(spell_link) *does* work, you just need to format the spell link yourself.

Hey that could be a fun idea with chat addons to parse messages for any plain text spell links, to still make it show as a link and show to tooltip

Short answer, yes. There are many features they stripped out just by altering the returns of the API functions.



If only. There's no reliable way to obtain a SpellID, which is necessary to reconstruct a link. There are many name collisions and you can't query the API for a spell you don't know by name.

May I ask, what are you intending to do with GetSpellLink and SpellID?

Me? I use it to show tooltips: GameTooltip:SetHyperLink(spell_link)

I could take a look at it for my addon. In my testing, the chat link from a spell in the spellbook in Classic only puts the name, no tooltip link.

Yes, GetSpellLink only returns the spell name in Classic.

I am guessing that you want a chat link like items where you can view a tolltip when clicking on the link in the chat window.

Edit:
A small look at what it could take to add a spell chatlink like the items, and it looks like a nightmare adding stuff back into the chat box.