API C TradeSkillUI.GetCategoryInfo

Returns information for a tradeskill category.

categoryInfo = C_TradeSkillUI.GetCategoryInfo(categoryID[, returnTable])

• categoryID: - The ID of the tradeskill category to get information for.
• returnTable: - Optional. The table to return the information in.

! Field !! Type !! Description

• categoryInfo: - A table containing information for the category:
• {|class="darktable zebra sortable"
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• name||String||Name of the category
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• enabled||Boolean||Is the category enabled
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• categoryID||Number||ID of the category
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• parentCategoryID||Number||ID of the category above this one
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• type||String||How should this category be displayed in the recipe list
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• hasProgressBar||Boolean||Should a progress bar be displayed for this category
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• numIndents||Number||How deeply to indent this category in the recipe list
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• skillLineStartingRank||Number||At what level does this category start learning ranks
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• skillLineMaxLevel||Number||At what level does this category stop learning ranks
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• skillLineCurrentLevel||Number||Current level of category skill
• }

• Using the optional 'returnTable' argument improves performance by not creating a new table for each call to the function. This is particularly useful when iterating over all the recipes for a trade skill.
• type has been seen as either "header", which is used for top-level expansion recipe categories, or "subheader", which is used for what in the old system were specializations (such as "Way of the Grill")