AddOn communication/Cooldowns

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Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Spells 1.2 Messages 1.3 Pattern 1.4 Localisation 1.5 Example Usage 1.5.1 Innervate 1.5.2 Challenging Shout 1.5.3 When Joining a Raid

Introduction

We're interested in standardizing a way to communication between addons about what cooldowns are available/down at a given moment. Spells we are interested in are:

Spells

• Reincarnation
• Rebirth
• Soulstone
• Shield Wall
• Divine Intervention
• Lightwell
• Challenging Shout

Messages

Prefix: ADCOM_CD Message: seconds Spellname in English

You send the seconds left on cooldown (i.e. 300 seconds when a 5-minute cooldown spell is first used, and 0 seconds when a spell is made available), and the unmodified ENGLISH spellname.

Pattern

You can get the information out of a received message by using:

local seconds,spell = string.find(msg, "(%d+)%s+(.+)")

Localisation

This is a list of localisations for the spells we're concerned with. Feel free to add/correct this list as necessary, using the same format.

Spell name (EN)	frFR	deDE
Reincarnation	R\195\169incarnation	Reinkarnation
Rebirth	Renaissance	Wiedergeburt
Soulstone Resurrection	R\195\169surrection de Pierre d\'\195\162me	Seelenstein-Auferstehung
Shield Wall	Mur protecteur	Schildwall
Divine Intervention	Intervention divine	G\195\182ttliches Eingreifen
Lightwell	Puits de lumi\195\168re	Brunnen des Lichts
Challenging Shout	Cri de d\195\169fi	Herausforderungsruf
Innervate	Innervation	Anregen

Example Usage

Innervate

When Innervate is used, the players addon would send the following message:

SendAddonMessage("ADCOM_CD", "360 Innervate", "RAID")

Challenging Shout

When Challenging Shout becomes available, the players addon would send the following message:

SendAddonMessage("ADCOM_CD", "0 Challenging Shout", "RAID")

When Joining a Raid

When joining a raid, a raid addon would want to send all their cooldown information in one broadcast to the raid. For example, a druid would send:

SendAddonMessage("ADCOM_CD", "0 Innervate", "RAID")
SendAddonMessage("ADCOM_CD", "60 Rebirth", "RAID")