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09-25-19, 03:44 PM   #1
fakesaint41
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How are API's discovered?

I'm curious how the wiki sites generate their api list. Here's what I've found so far:
  • Tools like this one discover functions that are used by the exported interface code.
  • Using the in game /api command. Confused why some api's like AbandonQuest aren't discoverable via this method

Is that pretty much how its done or are there other clever ways of discovering functions?
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09-25-19, 07:16 PM   #2
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The /api command is relatively new. Anything in that reference is specifically written to show in its own Blizzard addon. (The same as someone creating a wiki page.) Occasionally, new things are added. It will most likely never contain every single function.
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09-25-19, 07:44 PM   #3
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The majority of the API can be discovered by exporting the UI itself and reading what Blizzard does with it.

As for that tool you linked, it's a fancy way of organizing the data available from simply running a loop on the ingame _G table. All global objects (functions, tables, strings, numbers, and booleans) of a Lua environment are in there.
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