Thoughts on the Inspection API

[toddimer]

Hello all,

I'm the author of a class profiling tool. At the core, it pidgeon-holes party members into "roles", before deciding how to best play nicely with those roles (by giving them blessings, choosing totems, etc). Picking the right role is based on data from their class, spec, dungeon role, pet selection, etc.

A lot of that critical player data is read from the Inspection API. Which isn't perfect; it's cumbersome, ambiguous, shared, and vague. To be fair...it works... but Blizzard taking steps to limit it's impact on servers tells me two things: (A) It's been WAY more popular/used than they expected, and (B) it's therefore a prime candidate for revision in Cataclysm.

I hope this thread can fuel some constructive discussion on if/how the Inspection API could be changed, to make our lives easier. and by "our", i mean "our users". Lean, efficient, well designed add-ons make users happy. We just need the tools to get there