Master Relay

Hidden comms and save helper for the Master addon suite.

Author: Sarcazmo
Clients: Retail (Midnight) and World of Warcraft: Forever
Version: 1.1.14

Master Relay has no window and no minimap button. It does not print to chat unless you turn debug on.

What it does

• Learns other players who run Master addons from target, mouseover, nameplates, and group
• Talks to them with silent addon whispers (no custom chat channel)
• Only remembers players who actually answer (suite users)
• Lets other Master addons send and receive data through one bus
• Captures Lua errors from Master addons locally (error text is never broadcast)
• Can notify once per login if a peer is on a newer Master addon version
• On Forever only, backs up Master addon settings in account macros (Mz*) because SavedVariables can fail
• On Retail, settings stay in SavedVariables. Relay will not create macros there, and it removes leftover backup macros

Requirements

Other Master addons should list:

## RequiredDeps: MasterRelay

Slash commands

API

MasterRelay:Register("YourAddon", "MSGTYPE", handler)
MasterRelay:Unregister("YourAddon", "MSGTYPE", handler)
MasterRelay:Broadcast("YourAddon", "MSGTYPE", data)
MasterRelay:Whisper("YourAddon", "MSGTYPE", data, "Name-Realm")
MasterRelay:Announce("YourAddon", "version")
MasterRelay:IsReady()
MasterRelay:InLockdown()
MasterRelay:GetRoster()
MasterRelay:Persist("Key", getter, setter)
MasterRelay:PersistNow("Key")
MasterRelay:PersistLoad("Key")
MasterRelay:PersistWipe("Key")
MasterRelay:IsForeverClient()

handler is called as handler(sender, data, msgType, addonName).

Install

Copy the MasterRelay folder into:

• Retail: World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/
• Forever: World of Warcraft/_classic_era_/Interface/AddOns/ (or your Forever AddOns folder)

Enable it in the addon list.