Apiv2 specializations usage
Vermil Rockrim.9756:
If you call api.guildwars2.com/v2/specializations without ID, there is the following list of available ID’s to pick, which belong to every current specialization ingame:
[1,2,4,6,8,10,11,13,16,17,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,53,54]
Now, inside every specialization there are minor and major traits. If you ask for “..v2/specializations/1” you’ll get the ID’s for the minor traits for the Dueling specialization for Mesmer, but this doesn’t work:
api.guildwars2.com/v2/specializations/706
{"text":“no such id”}
I may be missing something, how do you manage to get info about specific traits for a class?
Regards.
darthmaim.6017:
You have to use the /v2/traits endpoint to lookup traits. It’s currently still in development, but a preview is available at /v2/traits-beta.
You can follow the development and discussion about /v2/traits in the github issue: https://github.com/arenanet/api-cdi/pull/67
On https://api.guildwars2.com/v2 you can see a list of all endpoints.
Nabrok.9023:
Wait … that’s active? Did I miss an announcement?
Eearslya.6309:
It was sort of announced in the comments of a Github pull request. I’m guessing they chose not to announce it here on the forums because /v2/traits is still /v2/traits-beta. They didn’t want to announce /v2/specializations because it sort of depends on /v2/traits to fully get its info.
Pat Cavit.9234:
/v2/traits-beta exists to get feedback, it’s likely to change response format in breaking ways so we weren’t advertising it super-loudly.
Feel free to use it & definitely provide feedback on bugs/format/etc if you do, but don’t write code that depends on it a) not changing or b) existing forever. Once we roll out /v2/traits for real /v2/traits-beta will be removed.
Vermil Rockrim.9756:
It was sort of announced in the comments of a Github pull request. I’m guessing they chose not to announce it here on the forums because /v2/traits is still /v2/traits-beta. They didn’t want to announce /v2/specializations because it sort of depends on /v2/traits to fully get its info.
Still, the specializations api is listed on the api wiki page.
Thanks for the replies guys, didn’t know there is another api for traits on the making.
darthmaim.6017:
Shameless self-plug: If you don’t want to miss any new endpoints or other announcements, but don’t want to read every single comment here or on github, you can follow my twitter account I created for exactly that: @GW2API.
Eearslya.6309:
Still, the specializations api is listed on the api wiki page.
Well, yes, I wrote that page because /v2/specializations seemed to be much LESS in beta and likely to change..and because, for the most part, I have nothing better to do with my time.
Lawton Campbell.8517:
Still, the specializations api is listed on the api wiki page.
Well, yes, I wrote that page because /v2/specializations seemed to be much LESS in beta and likely to change..and because, for the most part, I have nothing better to do with my time.
Yeah, we’re not planning on making any breaking changes to /v2/specializations. Was mostly sitting on it because it’s a bit scary w.r.t not accidentally releasing spoilers but it made sense to turn it on with /v2/traits-beta.
Creativewild.6319:
This is really really nice… and by the way we don’t mind spoilers :P.
Pat Cavit.9234:
You may not mind them but I guarantee we do.
Leaking spoilers via the API is a good way to get all API resources re-assigned to other projects.
Creativewild.6319:
It was intended aa joke
, but yes I understand.
Anyway, this traits API is very useful, you guys have been doing a great job.