Guild Wars 2

Hey, some items in item_details.json return “Unknown” as their “consumable_type” or “unlock_type”.

Specifically, I mean the following two:
36518 (“Limited-Use Gift Finisher”, returns “Unknown” as “unlock_type”)
8472 (“Transmutation Splitter”, returns “Unknown” as “consumable”.“type”)

I don’t have time to extract all the other items right now, but could you see that they return an appropriate value?

Ok, I made a complete list:

• For “consumable”.“type”, only 8472 is affected.
• For “unlock_type”, a lot more are affected: 36517, 36408, 36409, 36518, 19988, 39490, 39487, 39488, 44877, 44881, 44723, 44068, 44882, 44878, 44601, 44724, 47880, 48953, 48952 (all these are finishers)

I would guess this is because the actual values in the core datastore are numeric, and the API uses a lookup table to translate them into strings. The lookup table simply hasn’t been updated with entries for these new sub-types, so the lookup fails through to the default of “Unknown”.

Probably correct, but that doesn’t mean that these cannot or should not be fixed.

I picked one of those unlocks, and I have an item type of “Consumable” and a type of “unlock” in my database…

Item 8472 (the splitter) does give a type of “unknown” with me. (my data is from the start of september, at least that’s when I started keeping track of when I updated an item in my local database)

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

I picked one of those unlocks, and I have an item type of “Consumable” and a type of “unlock” in my database…

He’s talking about the unlock_type value for those, not the consumable.type.

https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/item_details.json?item_id=36517

{"item_id":“36517”,“name”:“Limited-Use Snowman Finisher”,
…,
“consumable”:{"type":“Unlock”,“unlock_type”:“Unknown”}}