How to get the displayName for a commodity in the Main Station Market?

[dybal]

Greetings!

Prior to 1.81, the objects in system.mainStation.market had a property displayName.

This is the object for I get for liquor_wines from system.mainStation.market in 1.88:

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{
 "quantity_random":"0.38",
  "capacity":127,
  "key":"liquor_wines",
  "trumble_opinion":"0.95",
  "quantity":38,
  "classes":["oolite-consumer","oolite-edible","oolite-farming"],
  "quantity_average":"20",
  "quantity_unit":"0",
  "price_random":"0.05",
  "price_economic":"0.24",
  "name":"[commodity-name liquor_wines]",
  "legality_import":"0",
  "peak_export":"7",
  "peak_import":"0",
  "sort_order":"500",
  "legality_export":"0",
  "price_average":"291",
  "quantity_economic":"0.88",
  "price":224
  }
 

How can I get the displayName for a Main Station Market commodity in the current version? I didn't find anything in the JavaScript Reference Object Model!

[phkb]

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"name":"[commodity-name liquor_wines]"

This line is key. If you look in the "descriptions.plist" file, you should find a line like this:

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	"commodity-name liquor_wines"	= "Liquor/Wines";

[dybal]

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"name":"[commodity-name liquor_wines]"

This line is key. If you look in the "descriptions.plist" file, you should find a line like this:

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	"commodity-name liquor_wines"	= "Liquor/Wines";

Yep, _I_ can look for the file in, probably in the Resources/Config directory, and look it up... but how do I make _the OXP Javascript code_ do that?

I didn't find any way to access those definitions from the Javascript code... if it can't be done, I have two options:

- display the commodity name: liquor_wines will be displayed as "liquor_wines" (or do some mod of it, like substituting " " for "_" and capitalizing first letters; "Liquor Wines")
- hardcode the commodity names (that's how HyperCargo is today), and break forward compatibility with OXP created commodities like Witchfire Whisky and Quirium Fuel.

[montana05]

Yep, _I_ can look for the file in, probably in the Resources/Config directory, and look it up... but how do I make _the OXP Javascript code_ do that?

Not sure if it works but you can try

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expandDescription[liquor_wines]

after slicing the name a bit

[dybal]

Yep, _I_ can look for the file in, probably in the Resources/Config directory, and look it up... but how do I make _the OXP Javascript code_ do that?

Not sure if it works but you can try

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expandDescription[liquor_wines]

after slicing the name a bit

It didn't work... tried with:

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expandDescription['liquor_wines']
expandDescription['[commodity-name liquor_wines]']
expandDescription['commodity-name liquor_wines']

All return undefined ('[commodity-name liquor_wines]' is the content of system.mainStation.market['liquor_wines'])

[another_commander]

Try expandDescription("[commodity-name liquor_wines]").

[montana05]

It didn't work... tried with:

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expandDescription['liquor_wines']
expandDescription['[commodity-name liquor_wines]']
expandDescription['commodity-name liquor_wines']

All return undefined ('[commodity-name liquor_wines]' is the content of system.mainStation.market['liquor_wines'])

I am using

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var CrewName = (CrewRank + " " + expandDescription("[nom]"));

and it's working well, forget about the commodity-name, it needs to be the exact name.

EDIT:
My bad, I didn't see A_C message before, obviously commodity-name is part of the exact name. Next time I better claim my computer back from my kids before posting detailed advice.

[dybal]

Try expandDescription("[commodity-name liquor_wines]").

That worked! (my bad, should have tried a function call instead of an object property...)

Thanks a lot, folks!

Now I can get rid of the hardcoded descriptions in HyperCargo