Platform.points.GetPlayerComboPointObservation

Call as

addon.Platform:GetPlayerComboPointObservation(powerType, kind)

Available directly through addon; no dependency is needed.

What it does

Observe the explicitly selected TBC player combo transport. Current uses exactly GetComboPoints(player,target); maximum uses UnitPowerMax(player,powerType) with the original selector. Other families are unavailable here and must use their existing point-power observer. Preserve readable finite signed, fractional and zero values. Missing, failed, restricted or malformed data remains unavailable; a failed chosen combo query never falls back to UnitPower. This observes no other actor and adds no cache.

Arguments

Name	Type	What it does
`self`	`RMPlatform`	Rotation Master platform adapter (implicit with colon calls).
`powerType`	`number`	Original explicit readable finite nonnegative integer combo-resource selector, including zero; retained for the maximum query.
`kind`	`string`	Exactly current for the player/target combo query or maximum for the player capacity query.

Returns

1	`number \| nil`	Finite native resource quantity, retaining its sign and fractional part; nil when unavailable.
2	`string \| nil`	Policy, query-validation or required observation availability reason for a nil quantity.

Editions

Built In helpers are registered on every edition. What differs is the game API they read; where one is missing the helper falls back or returns nil with a reason.

Not available on that edition (the reason is in the tooltip)
Only while Blizzard's deprecation fallbacks are on

Game API
`GetComboPoints`
`UnitPowerMax`
`canaccessvalue`

Secret values (Retail and Forever)

On Retail and Forever the game hands addons secret values. This helper checks what it reads (addon.Platform:CanReadValue) and returns nil with a reason such as restricted-value instead of a secret it cannot compare. Treat nil as unavailable, not as false.

Example

-- TBC only; 4 is the combo point power type
local current = addon.Platform:GetPlayerComboPointObservation(4, "current")
if current == nil then return nil end
return current >= 5

Source

Platform/points.lua, line 216. Read only in game; Duplicate makes an editable copy.

Platform.points.GetPlayerComboPointObservation(self, powerType, kind)

    local info=self:GetClientInfo()
    if info.combatDataPolicy~='probe' then return nil,'unsupported-policy' end
    local family
    if self:CanReadValue(info) and type(info)=='table' then family=rawget(info,'family') end
    if not self:CanReadValue(family) then return nil,'restricted-value' end
    if canaccessvalue and not canaccessvalue(family) then return nil,'restricted-value' end
    if family~='tbc' then return nil,'unsupported-point-transport' end
    if not self:CanReadValue(powerType) or not self:CanReadValue(kind) then return nil,'restricted-value' end
    if type(powerType)~='number' or powerType~=powerType or powerType<0 or powerType==math.huge or powerType%1~=0 then return nil,'invalid-point-power-query' end
    if kind~='current' and kind~='maximum' then return nil,'invalid-point-power-query' end
    local api
    if kind=='current' then api=GetComboPoints else api=UnitPowerMax end
    if type(api)~='function' then return nil,'missing-api' end
    local ok,result
    if kind=='current' then ok,result=pcall(api,'player','target') else ok,result=pcall(api,'player',powerType) end
    if not ok then return nil,'api-error' end
    if not self:CanReadValue(result) then return nil,'restricted-value' end
    if canaccessvalue and not canaccessvalue(result) then return nil,'restricted-value' end
    if result==nil then return nil,'point-power-unavailable' end
    if type(result)~='number' or result~=result or result==math.huge or result==-math.huge then return nil,'invalid-api-result' end
    return result

Back to Function reference