WoW CASC & DBC

Node.js tool to fetch World of Warcraft data files from CASC and parse DBC/DB2 files.

Snippet

Basic Usage

import { CASCClient, WDCReader, DBDParser } from '@rhyster/wow-casc-dbc';

// Get version
const region = 'us';
const product = 'wow';
const version = await CASCClient.getProductVersion(region, product);

// Client initialization
const client = new CASCClient(region, product, version);
await client.init();
await client.loadRemoteTACTKeys();
await client.loadRemoteListFile(); // pretty slow, recommend to provide fileDataID directly

// Fetch file
const fileDataID = client.getFileDataIDByName('dbfilesclient/questxp.db2'); // see previous line
const cKeys = client.getContentKeysByFileDataID(fileDataID);
const cKey = cKeys.find((data) => !!(data.localeFlags & CASCClient.LocaleFlags.enUS));
const { buffer } = await client.getFileByContentKey(cKey.cKey);

// Parse DB2 file
const reader = new WDCReader(buffer);
const parser = await DBDParser.parse(reader);

// Access DB2 file
reader.getAllIDs().forEach((id) => {
    const rowFields = reader.getRowData(id);
});
parser.getAllIDs().forEach((id) => {
    const rowObject = parser.getRowData(id);
});

Partial Decrypt

Some file is encrypted and no key released yet. For DB2 files, you can ignore the encrypted part and parse the others.

// ...

const result = await client.getFileByContentKey(cKey.cKey, true);
const reader = new WDCReader(result.buffer, result.blocks);
const parser = await DBDParser.parse(reader);

// ...

Hotfix

Applying hotfix requires DBCache.bin file from the client, and it seems the only way to get this is from the client. So, you need to search for DBCache.bin yourself, like <WoWPath>/_retail_/Cache/ADB/enUS/DBCache.bin or download it somewhere.

It's also important to compare build, region and locale with the db2 file that to be patched to avoid broken data.

// ...

const dbcache = await fs.readFile('path/to/DBCache.bin');
const buffer = await fs.readFile('path/to/name.db2');

const adb = new ADBReader(dbcache);
assert(adb.build === parseInt(version.BuildId, 10));

const reader = new WDCReader(buffer, [], adb);
const parser = await DBDParser.parse(reader);

// ...

License

MIT License