Started "flattening" the collection, which will ultimately make it easier to import into a database. WOOHOO!

Basically, all lua tables will have keys that are equal to their DB table names and their data will have a key that contains the row data in a tab delimited format.

Note: This is still a work in progress and some things need to be revisited... i.e. collect_merchant.lua, since we want to extract the currency id from the currency link... no documentation is thus far found for what the type part of a currency link is, so we're going to collect a little data and see.

QuestHelper/collect.lua

@@ -99,11 +99,13 @@ function QH_Collector_SetupData()
   end
   local realm = GetRealmName()
 
+  local sessiontime = time()
+
   if not QuestHelper_Collector.created then
-	  QuestHelper_Collector.created = time();
+	  QuestHelper_Collector.created = sessiontime;
   end
 
-  local session = string.format("%q\t%q\t%q\t%q\t%q", svnversion, realm, buildInfo, locale, altfaction)
+  local session = string.format("%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s", svnversion, realm, buildInfo, locale, altfaction)
 
   if not QuestHelper_Collector.sessions then QuestHelper_Collector.sessions = {} end
 

QuestHelper/collect_merchant.lua

@@ -23,9 +23,10 @@ local function AddChatType(typ)
 
   target = GetMonsterType(target)
 
-  if not QHCM[target] then QHCM[target] = {} end
-  QHCM[target]["chat_" .. typ] = (QHCM[target]["chat_" .. typ] or 0) + 1
-  return QHCM[target]
+  local ret = {}
+  ret.base_info = string.format("%d\t%s", target, typ)
+  table.insert(QHCM, ret)
+  return ret
 end
 
 local function MerchantShow()
@@ -42,18 +43,28 @@ local function MerchantShow()
     local itemid = GetMerchantItemLink(i)
     QuestHelper: Assert(itemid)
     itemid = GetItemType(itemid)
-    local _, _, price, quant, avail, _, _ = GetMerchantItemInfo(i)
-    local dstr = {}
-    dstr.quant = quant
-    dstr.avail = avail
-    dstr.price = price
-    --if debug_output then QuestHelper:TextOut(dstr) end
-    if not targ.shop then targ.shop = {} end
-    if not targ.shop[itemid] then 
-      targ.shop[itemid] = dstr
+    local _, _, price, quant, avail, _, ext_cost = GetMerchantItemInfo(i)
+	local shop_item = {}
+	shop_item.base_info = string.format("%d\t%d\t%d\t%d", itemid, quant, avail, price)
+
+	if ext_cost then
+		ext_costs = {}
+		for curr = 1, GetMerchantItemCostInfo(i) do
+			local tex, val, link, name = GetMerchantItemCostItem(i, curr)
+			local ext_cost_detail = {}
+			ext_cost_detail.base_info = string.format("%s\t%d", name, val)
+			ext_cost_detail.link = link
+			ext_cost_detail.texture = tex
+			table.insert(ext_costs, ext_cost_detail)
 		end
 
-    targ.shop[itemid].count = (targ.shop[itemid].count or 0) + 1
+		shop_item.ext_costs = ext_costs
+	end
+
+    --if debug_output then QuestHelper:TextOut(dstr) end
+    if not targ.shop then targ.shop = {} end
+
+	table.insert(targ.shop, shop_item)
   end
 end
 
@@ -67,8 +78,8 @@ end
 
 
 function QH_Collect_Merchant_Init(QHCData, API)
-   if not QHCData.monster then QHCData.monster = {} end
-  QHCM = QHCData.monster
+   if not QHCData.merchant then QHCData.merchant = {} end
+  QHCM = QHCData.merchant
 
   QH_Event("MERCHANT_SHOW", MerchantShow)
   QH_Event("GOSSIP_SHOW", GossipShow)

QuestHelper/collect_monster.lua

@@ -65,13 +65,21 @@ local function MouseoverUnit()
       -- register the critter here
       local cid = GetMonsterType(guid)
 
-      if not QHCM[cid] then QHCM[cid] = {} end
-      local critter = QHCM[cid]
+      --if not QHCM[cid] then QHCM[cid] = {} end
+      --local critter = QHCM[cid]
+      local critter = {}
+	  critter.id = cid
+
+      if cid < 30621 or cid > 30625 then
+	    --AccumulateFrequency(critter, "name", UnitName("mouseover")) -- The exceptions are for Herald Volasj's minions, which are named after your partymembers.
+		critter.name = UnitName("mouseover")
+	  end
+      --AccumulateFrequency(critter, "reaction", UnitReaction("mouseover", "player"))
+	  critter.reaction = UnitReaction("mouseover", "player")
 
-      if cid < 30621 or cid > 30625 then AccumulateFrequency(critter, "name", UnitName("mouseover")) end -- The exceptions are for Herald Volasj's minions, which are named after your partymembers.
-      AccumulateFrequency(critter, "reaction", UnitReaction("mouseover", "player"))
       if not drunk_logon and not drunk_message then
-        AccumulateFrequency(critter, "level", UnitLevel("mouseover"))
+        --AccumulateFrequency(critter, "level", UnitLevel("mouseover"))
+		critter.level = UnitLevel("mouseover")
       end
 
       local minrange = InteractDistances[1]
@@ -85,12 +93,18 @@ local function MouseoverUnit()
         end
       end
       QuestHelper: Assert(minrange >= 0 and minrange < 256 and maxrange >= 0 and maxrange < 256)
+	  critter.loc = GetLoc()
+	  critter.minrange = minrange
+	  critter.maxrange = maxrange
+	  table.insert(QHCM, critter)
+	  --[[
       local data = {}
       data.loc = GetLoc()
       data.minrange = minrange
       data.maxrange = maxrange
       if not critter.encounters then critter.encounters = {} end
       table.insert(critter.encounters, data)
+	  ]]
       --Merger.Add(critter, string.format("(%s %s %s),", GetLoc(), tostring(minrange), tostring(maxrange))) --strchar(minrange, maxrange))
 
       if #recentlySeenCritters_Recent >= 100 then