From e6acaba732ac8ca3aa05f2295b578803fb5575e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Crum <stschleyer89@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 21:48:41 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] add GetItemLinkByName function

Needed for Merchants.lua skin (buyback) and maybe others.
---
 !Compatibility/api/wowAPI.lua | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/!Compatibility/api/wowAPI.lua b/!Compatibility/api/wowAPI.lua
index ab61f3a..de6f95f 100644
--- a/!Compatibility/api/wowAPI.lua
+++ b/!Compatibility/api/wowAPI.lua
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ local _G = _G
 local assert = assert
 local date = date
 local pairs = pairs
+local select = select
 local tonumber = tonumber
 local type = type
 local unpack = unpack
@@ -357,4 +358,16 @@ function GetThreatStatus(currentThreat, maxThreat)
 	else
 		return 0, threatPercent
 	end
+end
+
+-- Credits: @Shagu - pfUI
+-- https://github.com/shagu/pfUI/blob/7999f612ad464261306bbf6f309bb63b54bd44af/api/api.lua#L123
+function GetItemLinkByName(name)
+	for itemID = 1, 25818 do
+		local itemName, itemLink, itemQuality = GetItemInfo(itemID)
+		if itemName and itemName == name then
+			local hex = select(4, GetItemQualityColor(tonumber(itemQuality)))
+			return hex.. "|H"..itemLink.."|h["..itemName.."]|h|r"
+		end
+	end
 end
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