enchantLink API Type (String)[]
enchantLinks are returned by several functions, e.g. GetCraftItemLink(), etc.
In essence, they are enchantStrings with additional formatting to make in-game text controls display them as clickable hyperlinks. The same as itemStrings are with itemLinks.
|cffffffff|Henchant:20024|h[Enchant Boots - Spirit]|h|r
Broken up in its components:
"|cffffffff"
– Colorizes the link with a white color (Enchant Boots - Spirit is a trainer recipe)- The first two characters after pipe-c may be the alpha level, where
ff
is fully opaque. - The next three sets of two characters represent the red, green, and blue levels, just like HTML.
- The first two characters after pipe-c may be the alpha level, where
"|H"
– "Hyperlink link data starts here""enchant:20024"
– Read more at enchantString."|h"
– "End of link, text follows""[Enchant Boots - Spirit]"
– The actual text displayed"|h"
– "End of hyperlink""|r"
– Restores color to normal
You can extract the enchantString from a given enchantLink with the following LUA-code:
local found, _, enchantString = string.find(enchantLink, "^|%x+|H(.+)|h%[.+%]")
EnchantLinks are also used in profession/craft links; for example:
|cffffffff|Henchant:44157|h[Engineering: Turbo-Charged Flying Machine]|h|r
where 44157 is the spellId used to create the product of crafting.