getting name or spellid for buffs/debuffs

[modernist]

is this basically impossible? even api like GetPlayerBuffName() doesn't seem to exist in 1.12. i'm looking to match names or ids from a table when UNIT_AURA is called — but there's pretty much bugger all way to do it as I can see.

best alternative i can find is matching based on the icon texture path:

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f:SetScript('OnEvent', function()
    local buffs = {}
    local aura_on
    local j = 0
    for i = 1, 16 do
        local icon = UnitBuff('player', i)
        if icon ~= nil then
            buffs[i] = icon
            j = j + 1
        end
    end
    for i = 1, j do
        local aura_on = string.find(buffs[i], table.iconpath)
        if aura_on ~= nil then
            DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage'icon match'
        end
    end
end)

but obviously this is a terrible and non-workable method, nobody is gonna know what the texture path for their spell is

[Geigerkind]

What you could do is to get the buff name by the GameTooltip. After that you just iterate in your own table to find the spellID. But as far as I know there is no way in vanilla to get the SpellId directly

[modernist]

oh that works, neat.

https://github.com/obble/modup/blob/master/spell.lua

this write-up is now actually partially based on your method for PA — i'm having an issue where the event won't actually push until the aura is removed (rather than applied). Any idea if I'm doing something dumb here?

[Geigerkind]

The UNIT_AURA event is different and weaker as in other expansions. In Wotlk I think all aura based events were merged into UNIT_AURA.
In vanilla you have to use a bunch of events in order to track them properly.
If you are only using it for the player auras PLAYER_AURAS_CHANGED should be fine.

[modernist]

fantastic, thanks