Outfit members with no names

[Goblinhunter]

Has anyone else notice the API returning outfit members with no names, when you use the resolve members function?
They have other stats, but no names. Very odd.

[Willuz]

I use this querry to return the names of outfit members.

http://census.soe.com/xml/get/ps2-be...me.first,rank)


The more difficult trick that I'm still working on is to resolve the online status of each member.

[Sinjhin]

Willuz, You can get online status by character ID I know.

https://census.soe.com/s:soe/get/ps2...10618035042753

Is that what you are looking for?

[maradine]

I've had to break the query into two to get the data (enumerate to list; iterate online status resolution), as Sinjhin implies. Guessing this is a bug.

[DereksDontRun]

to get online status for a character I'm using:

http://census.soe.com/get/ps2-beta/c...e.first_lower=player_name&c:show=name&c:resolve=online_status

this gives an online_status as 0 for offline or a world_id code if they're online.

what I'm struggling with atm is to resolve the world_id code into the world name (ie id 10 = miller)

I've been trying:
&c:resolve=online_status,world(name.en,description .en)
but i think I must have the wrong options in the world(???)
any ideas?

http://census.soe.com/get/ps2-beta/world/
^ world data and trying to get name.en string chucked through in 1 link

how do you get the list of commands for what's available in the resolve brackets
http://census.soe.com/get/ps2-beta/
^ gives the resolve options for each section but not what's available in the brackets


*edit*
after a quick play I've realized that the resolve=online_status only (presently) works for /character/ requests and not /outfit/ ones, which I'm guessing is what you're after...

[Dreadnaut]

Hope this helps:

<?php
$world = array();
$world_loc = array();

$world[1] = "Connery";
$world_loc[1] = "West Coast, US";
$world[2] = "Genudine";
$world_loc[2] = "West Coast, US";
$world[3] = "Helios";
$world_loc[3] = "West Coast, US";
$world[4] = "Palos";
$world_loc[4] = "West Coast, US";
$world[5] = "Torremar";
$world_loc[5] = "West Coast, US";
$world[6] = "Voight";
$world_loc[6] = "West Coast, US";
$world[7] = "Benson";
$world_loc[7] = "West Coast, US";
$world[8] = "Everett";
$world_loc[8] = "West Coast, US";

$world[9] = "Woodman";
$world_loc[9] = "Europe";
$world[10] = "Miller";
$world_loc[10] = "Europe";
$world[11] = "Ceres";
$world_loc[11] = "Europe";
$world[12] = "Lithcorp";
$world_loc[12] = "Europe";
$world[13] = "Cobalt";
$world_loc[13] = "Europe";
$world[14] = "Mallory";
$world_loc[14] = "Europe";
$world[15] = "Rust Mesa";
$world_loc[15] = "Europe";
$world[16] = "Snowshear";
$world_loc[16] = "Europe";

$world[17] = "Mattherson";
$world_loc[17] = "East Coast, US";
$world[18] = "Waterson";
$world_loc[18] = "East Coast, US";
$world[19] = "Jaeger";
$world_loc[19] = "East Coast, US";
$world[20] = "SolTech";
$world_loc[20] = "East Coast, US";
$world[21] = "DeepCore";
$world_loc[21] = "East Coast, US";
$world[22] = "AuraxiCom";
$world_loc[22] = "East Coast, US";
$world[23] = "Snake Ravine";
$world_loc[23] = "East Coast, US";
$world[24] = "Apex";
$world_loc[24] = "East Coast, US";

$world[25] = "Briggs";
$world_loc[25] = "Australia";
$world[26] = "Morgannis";
$world_loc[26] = "Australia";
$world[27] = "Saerro";
$world_loc[27] = "Australia";
$world[28] = "Vaemar";
$world_loc[28] = "Australia";
$world[29] = "Jagged Lance";
$world_loc[29] = "Australia";
$world[30] = "Alkali";
$world_loc[30] = "Australia";
$world[31] = "Stillwater";
$world_loc[31] = "Australia";
$world[32] = "Black Ridge";
$world_loc[32] = "Australia";
?>

[DereksDontRun]

cheers m8 - that was what i was expecting to do - hard, code it into an array instead of having it as parsed data direct from SOE. In some respects I was trying to avoid it, if possible, just in case any server-changes/merges/etc spawn new world_ids and thus a need to update the code each time.

[Hamma]

Yep hard coded here on PSU as well.

[Willuz]

Originally Posted by Sinjhin

Willuz, You can get online status by character ID I know.

Originally Posted by maradine

I've had to break the query into two to get the data (enumerate to list; iterate online status resolution), as Sinjhin implies. Guessing this is a bug.

I came to the same conclusion about Online Status in a resolve of outfit member_character requiring multiple queries. It's easy to query in the character page though.

This problem has been acknowledged on the SOE API forum and they plan to include online status in the member_character resolve in the future.

[Stanis]

Thanks for the information in this thread.

It's not just me trying to get outfit member online status :P
I've broken it down into an outfit lookup, then character lookup.
With a common sense rule - don't check anyone last_login > 24hrs agoo.


Has anyone got an idea what "ts" is?
I was hoping to take a good guess at online status by comparing lastlogin/lastsave/ts ..

[Willuz]

Originally Posted by Goblinhunter

Has anyone else notice the API returning outfit members with no names, when you use the resolve members function?
They have other stats, but no names. Very odd.

Sorry, I completely derailed this thread by misunderstanding the problem. Yes, I also see the resolve members function returning members with no names, but in my case they don't have stats either. I wonder if these are people who deleted an account before leaving the outfit.

[Ghryphen]

Originally Posted by Willuz

Sorry, I completely derailed this thread by misunderstanding the problem. Yes, I also see the resolve members function returning members with no names, but in my case they don't have stats either. I wonder if these are people who deleted an account before leaving the outfit.

Yes, I think it is something like that. Big outfits say their total members on PSU don't match in game. I'm betting it is because their roster is full of ghost accounts. For PSU I skip all that have no name and give that total.

[Goblinhunter]

Yeah, i'm mostly seeing accounts with no names, or stats, but there are some with stats, and then some with names that have missing stats, or stats in a completely different format to everyone else.

All a little bit annoying, but as you say the easiest option is to just clean them out.