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SamandClaude Fable 5.1 94945e8339 two addons that need each other load, and pfUI's memory row fills in
- loading two LoadOnDemand addons that depend on each other loads both instead of killing the client with a stack overflow; each is counted loaded before its own files run, as on the real client (2139)
- the memory report gets its second number, so AceAddon-2.0's memory line (36 copies in the corpus) stops raising and pfUI's panel prints a figure where it printed UNAVAILABLE; garbage collection takes a number and answers nothing, like 1.12's (2136)
- a disabled addon you have uninstalled keeps its row in AddOns.txt through a logout, and a hand-edited name keeps its spelling instead of taking the folder's case (2139)
- a loaded chunk's error lines name it the way the real client does, and a /console argument containing ]] no longer trips a syntax error the 1.12 lexer would raise (2136)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-11 20:52:00 +07:00

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//! **Client-identity and script-evaluation verbs** — the small engine globals an addon asks for
//! before it does anything else (1188 phase 5, prioritised by the phase 6 corpus).
//!
//! These are not a guess at what addons want. They are the top of the measured demand list: over a
//! 218-addon vanilla corpus, `GetBuildInfo` is called by 69 addons and `RunScript` by 52, and both
//! are called *at file scope* — so a missing one does not degrade an addon, it stops the addon's
//! very first chunk with `attempt to call global … (a nil value)`. `GetBuildInfo` alone was the
//! first error for the whole Ace/Atlas/AtlasLoot family, which is a large slice of the ecosystem.
//!
//! ## The host-fed pair (decision 1195)
//!
//! `GetRealmName` and `GetFramerate` are the next two down that list — 24 addons are stopped dead
//! by `GetRealmName` at file scope, and it is the **top runtime wall in the corpus** after the
//! dialect gap. Both read a slot the app pushes, the same shape as the zone-text family: the
//! engine owns the verb, the host owns the fact.
//!
//! `GetRealmName` returning `""` before a realm is known is deliberate and is what the reference
//! does at the glue screen. An addon keys its saved variables on it (`db[GetRealmName()]`), so
//! answering `nil` would make that a `table index is nil` error one call deeper — the failure mode
//! we have been paying for all arc.
use mlua::{Lua, MultiValue, Value};
use super::Model;
/// The 1.12.1 client's own build identity, read out of `WoW.exe`'s string table rather than
/// remembered: `5875` and `1.12.1` sit adjacent in the binary, and `Sep 19 2006` is its only
/// build-date string.
///
/// **Hardcoding is the faithful answer here, not a shortcut.** benilla targets exactly 1.12.1
/// (decision 1188), so these are constants of the target, not of our build — an addon asking
/// `GetBuildInfo()` is asking "which client am I on", and the honest answer is the one we
/// implement the API of. Our *own* build stamp is a different question with a different verb
/// ([`crate::script`] has no binding for it, and the reference has none either).
const VERSION: &str = "1.12.1";
const BUILD: &str = "5875";
const BUILD_DATE: &str = "Sep 19 2006";
// There was a `TOC_VERSION = 11200` here, and `GetBuildInfo` pushed it as a fourth value. The
// in-game registrar pushes three (decision 1842); the interface number is a later expansion's
// return, and `benilla.toc`'s own `## Interface` line is where that number belongs.
pub(super) fn install(lua: &Lua) -> mlua::Result<()> {
let g = lua.globals();
// `GetLocale()` -> one string, and `IsMacClient()` -> nil, both ARITY-EXACT in the reference's
// own shape table (`re/audit/binding-shapes.tsv`: `GetLocale 0x46ce40`/`0x48d8b0` is
// `0 -> 1 (string?)`, `IsMacClient 0x48c980` is `0 -> 1 (nil)`, both `exact`/`agree`).
//
// **`IsMacClient` answering nil is the whole verb, not a placeholder.** The table records the
// return KIND as `(nil)` — this binding pushes nil on the PC build the reference was carved
// from, and there is nothing else for it to say. FrameXML branches on it for Mac-only key
// labels; nil takes the PC arm, which is the arm this client wants.
//
// `GetLocale` is the two-registration case the shape gate warns about (1843): a glue copy and
// an in-game copy, same shape. Ours answers the one locale this client ships against — the
// enUS `GlobalStrings.lua` the manifest loads and 1804's reference defaults are read from.
// Decision 1880.
g.set(
"GetLocale",
lua.create_function(|lua, ()| lua.create_string("enUS"))?,
)?;
g.set("IsMacClient", lua.create_function(|_, ()| Ok(Value::Nil))?)?;
// version, build, date — three, and no fourth (decision 1842)
g.set(
"GetBuildInfo",
lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
Ok(MultiValue::from_vec(vec![
Value::String(lua.create_string(VERSION)?),
Value::String(lua.create_string(BUILD)?),
Value::String(lua.create_string(BUILD_DATE)?),
// **THREE, not four.** The reference's in-game `GetBuildInfo 0x4884a0` pushes
// `(string, string, string)`; the interface/TOC number is a later-expansion return
// and 1.12 has no fourth value here. (Its GLUE twin `0x46cd70` pushes five — the
// same name with a different shape per registrar table, which is why 1842's gate
// keys on the table and not the name.) Decision 1842.
]))
})?,
)?;
// `RunScript(text)` — compile and run a chunk in the shared global state.
//
// The reference's is `RunScript 0x48b980` (pair `0x83e288`, name `0x83ea60`), and it is how a
// macro body, a `/script` slash command, and every addon's "evaluate this snippet" helper
// reach Lua. It inherits the same sandbox as our chunk loader: there is no `setfenv` here and
// none in the reference either — a script runs with full API access.
//
// **The chunk NAME here is ours, not the image's, and that is an open question** (2136's
// "left open"). wow-re's chunk-source census (`lowhealth-playerstatus-onupdate-dead.md` §3)
// places this binding's feed precisely — `0x48b9cb` into `0x704cd0`, the source-string arm of
// `FS_DoBuffer 0x704ae0` — but records the name argument only for its sibling arms: an XML
// `<Script>` inline body is `"%s:<Scripts>"` (`0x871074`) and the one C-resident chunk is
// `"compat.lua"`. Until `0x704cd0`'s own name is read, `[RunScript]` is a placeholder that
// renders plausibly rather than a verified spelling.
//
// (The address here read `0x7044c0` until 2136. That is not `RunScript` and it is not
// anything: `scripts/addrs.py` finds no wow-re ledger row for it at all.)
//
// A compile or runtime error is **raised**, not swallowed. The reference propagates it to the
// caller's error handler, which is what puts a red line in the chat frame; returning nil would
// make a broken macro look like a working one that did nothing.
g.set(
"RunScript",
lua.create_function(|lua, text: String| {
lua.load(&text)
.set_name("=[RunScript]")
.set_mode(mlua::ChunkMode::Text)
.exec()
})?,
)?;
// `GetRealmName()` — the realm this session is on, as the realm list spells it.
//
// The corpus's most-wanted engine verb after the dialect fix: 24 addons stop on it, and they
// stop *at file scope*, because the idiom is `MyAddonDB[GetRealmName()] = …` in a chunk's
// opening lines. `""` until the app pushes one (the glue screen's own answer), never `nil`.
g.set(
"GetRealmName",
lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
lua.create_string(&model.realm_name)
})?,
)?;
// `RequestTimePlayed()` — ask the server for /played, answered by `TIME_PLAYED_MSG`.
//
// **The request and the answer are two halves and only both are worth having.** The binding
// queues a `CMSG_PLAYED_TIME` the app drains; the app fires `TIME_PLAYED_MSG(total, level)`
// when `SMSG_PLAYED_TIME` lands. Shipping only this half would be 1203 exactly: `QuestHistory`
// calls it and then waits on an event that never comes, which is quieter and worse than the
// `attempt to call global` it gets today.
//
// It returns nothing — the answer arrives as an event, never as a return value.
g.set(
"RequestTimePlayed",
lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
lua.app_data_mut::<Model>()
.expect("model app_data")
.played_time_asks += 1;
Ok(())
})?,
)?;
// `GetBindLocation()` — the hearthstone's bind location NAME, as the reference's own hearth
// confirmation prints it (`StaticPopup.lua:1742` formats it straight into the dialog text).
//
// Three corpus addons read it, in three separate files: FuBar_TransporterFu
// (`TransporterFu.lua:456`), Necrosis (`Necrosis.lua:1089`) and _LazyPig (`LazyPig.lua:623`).
//
// **`""` until the app pushes one, never nil — the same choice `GetRealmName` above makes, for
// the same reason.** Necrosis CONCATENATES the result (`..GetBindLocation()`), so a nil is a
// raise rather than a blank; the reference holds a string buffer that is empty before
// `SMSG_BINDPOINTUPDATE` lands, and no logged-in character is ever without a bind point, so the
// empty window is ours alone. Conflating "not yet known" with "bound nowhere" is the price, and
// it is the price the neighbouring verb already pays deliberately.
g.set(
"GetBindLocation",
lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
lua.create_string(&model.bind_location)
})?,
)?;
// `GetFramerate()` — frames per second, as a number.
//
// 71 addons in the corpus call it; every performance readout on the ecosystem's FuBar/Titan
// panels is this one verb. The app pushes a smoothed value each tick
// ([`super::UiScript::set_framerate`]); 0 before the first push, which is what an addon's
// `format("%.1f", GetFramerate())` needs to not error.
g.set(
"GetFramerate",
lua.create_function(|lua, ()| {
let model = lua.app_data_ref::<Model>().expect("model app_data");
Ok(model.framerate)
})?,
)?;
Ok(())
}
impl super::UiScript {
/// Drain the `RequestTimePlayed()` asks queued since the last call — each one is a
/// `CMSG_PLAYED_TIME`. [`super::UiScript::take_pvp_toggles`]'s shape, and a count for the same
/// reason: the request packet is empty, so nothing distinguishes two asks but their number.
pub fn take_played_time_asks(&mut self) -> u32 {
std::mem::take(&mut self.model_mut().played_time_asks)
}
/// Push the hearthstone bind location's name — the host's half of `GetBindLocation`.
///
/// The app resolves `SMSG_BINDPOINTUPDATE`'s AreaTable id through the same catalog the
/// hearthstone's `$z` token already goes through, so the two can never disagree about where the
/// player is bound. Idempotent; the empty string means the packet has not landed yet.
pub fn set_bind_location(&mut self, area_name: &str) {
let mut model = self.model_mut();
if model.bind_location != area_name {
model.bind_location = area_name.to_string();
}
}
/// Push the realm name — the host's half of `GetRealmName` (decision 1195).
///
/// Set at world entry from the realm the session actually connected to. Idempotent, and the
/// empty string is a legitimate value (no realm yet), not a "clear".
pub fn set_realm_name(&mut self, realm: &str) {
{
let mut model = self.model_mut();
if model.realm_name != realm {
model.realm_name = realm.to_string();
}
// The `realmName` CVar is the SAME fact, and it is set here so it cannot drift from
// `GetRealmName()`. It is a real 1.12 CVar (`0x83f2d0`, persisted — the client builds
// its SavedVariables path from it, wow-re `savedvariables-protocol.md`), and it had no
// value at all here: `Ace/AceState.lua:27` is
// `ace.trim(GetCVar("realmName"))` inside `SetGameState`, which EVERY Ace addon runs at
// PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD, so the nil became `gsub(nil, ...)` and took the family down.
//
// Through the **engine-write** path, not a bare slot poke. `realmName` is a persisted
// CVar — its whole documented job is to be the last realm connected to — and a slot
// written in place never reaches `cvar_changes`, so the host never hears it and never
// dirties the config file. The value was therefore correct for exactly as long as the
// process lived and absent from `config.toml` forever, which is the one thing a
// persisted CVar must not be. `set_from_engine` is the same silent-on-unknown-name
// write (a bare test VM registers nothing) and additionally queues the change.
super::cvars::set_from_engine(&mut model, "realmName", realm.to_string());
}
}
/// Push the current framerate — the host's half of `GetFramerate`.
///
/// Pushed per tick from the app's own frame clock rather than computed here: this crate has no
/// clock, and a number an addon polls every `OnUpdate` should not be re-derived per call.
pub fn set_framerate(&mut self, fps: f64) {
self.model_mut().framerate = fps;
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use crate::script::UiScript;
/// `GetBuildInfo` answers as the 1.12.1 client: **three strings, and no fourth value.**
///
/// This used to assert four and explain the fourth as the `tocversion` an addon compares
/// against its own `## Interface` — which is a TBC-and-later idiom. The in-game registrar
/// `0x4884a0` pushes `(string, string, string)` and nothing else (decision 1842); the
/// interface number arrives in a later expansion.
///
/// The corpus agrees, and it is worth the count: **458 sites** write
/// `local version = GetBuildInfo()` and take one value. **Four** destructure a fourth — and on
/// the real 1.12 client those four read `nil`, which is what their authors shipped against.
/// Handing them `11200` was benilla being more generous than the client, which is the superset
/// 1189 exists to stop.
///
/// **The same name has a different shape in the glue registrar** (`0x46cd70`, five strings).
/// This VM is the in-game one. That pair is why 1842's gate keys on the table, not the name.
#[test]
fn get_build_info_answers_as_the_1_12_1_client() {
let s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
assert_eq!(
s.eval::<Vec<String>>("return { GetBuildInfo() }").unwrap(),
vec!["1.12.1", "5875", "Sep 19 2006"]
);
assert_eq!(
s.eval::<i64>("return select('#', GetBuildInfo())").unwrap(),
3,
"three values, never a fourth"
);
}
/// `GetRealmName` answers `""` before the host pushes one — **never `nil`**, because the
/// corpus idiom is `MyAddonDB[GetRealmName()] = …` at file scope and a nil index errors one
/// call deeper, far from the cause.
#[test]
fn get_realm_name_is_empty_before_it_is_known_and_the_host_pushes_it() {
let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
assert_eq!(s.eval::<String>("return GetRealmName()").unwrap(), "");
assert!(
s.eval::<bool>("local t = {} t[GetRealmName()] = 1 return t[''] == 1")
.unwrap(),
"the empty string is a usable table key; nil is not, and that is the whole point"
);
s.set_realm_name("Whitemane");
assert_eq!(
s.eval::<String>("return GetRealmName()").unwrap(),
"Whitemane"
);
}
/// `GetFramerate` is a number from the first call, so `format("%.1f", GetFramerate())` in an
/// addon's `OnUpdate` cannot error before the app has pushed a frame.
#[test]
fn get_framerate_is_a_number_before_the_first_push() {
let mut s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
assert_eq!(s.eval::<f64>("return GetFramerate()").unwrap(), 0.0);
assert_eq!(
s.eval::<String>("return format(\"%.1f\", GetFramerate())")
.unwrap(),
"0.0"
);
s.set_framerate(59.94);
assert_eq!(
s.eval::<String>("return format(\"%.1f\", GetFramerate())")
.unwrap(),
"59.9"
);
}
/// `RunScript` runs its text in the shared global state, and an error in it is raised.
#[test]
fn run_script_evaluates_in_the_shared_state_and_raises() {
let s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
s.run(r#"RunScript("RunScriptProbe = 41 + 1")"#).unwrap();
assert_eq!(s.eval::<i64>("return RunScriptProbe").unwrap(), 42);
// A script that fails must fail loudly — a silent nil is a broken macro that looks fine.
assert!(
s.run(r#"RunScript("this is not lua")"#).is_err(),
"a malformed script must raise, not vanish"
);
}
/// `GetLocale` answers one string and `IsMacClient` answers nil — the reference's own shapes
/// (`binding-shapes.tsv`, both `exact`/`agree`), and the arity is the half a caller branches on.
#[test]
fn the_client_identity_pair_answers_its_reference_arity() {
let s = UiScript::new().unwrap();
assert_eq!(
s.eval::<i64>("return select('#', GetLocale())").unwrap(),
1,
"GetLocale pushes exactly one value"
);
assert_eq!(s.eval::<String>("return GetLocale()").unwrap(), "enUS");
assert_eq!(
s.eval::<i64>("return select('#', IsMacClient())").unwrap(),
1,
"IsMacClient pushes one value, and it is nil"
);
assert!(
s.eval::<bool>("return IsMacClient() == nil").unwrap(),
"nil is the PC arm, which is the arm this client wants"
);
}
}