wow-sharedmedia

A Rust library for building and maintaining World of Warcraft SharedMedia addons.

It manages data.lua, generates loader.lua and .toc, converts supported media formats into WoW-compatible outputs, and keeps the addon directory in a consistent state through a small stateless API.

Third-party Lua dependencies are embedded from a pinned vendor snapshot. Normal builds and releases use the tracked snapshot in vendor.lock.json; maintainers refresh upstream dependencies explicitly with a separate workflow.

📦 Installation

[dependencies]
wow-sharedmedia = "0.2"

Requires Rust 1.95+ (edition 2024).

🚀 Quick Start

use std::path::Path;

use wow_sharedmedia::{
    ensure_addon_dir, import_media, read_data, ImportOptions, MediaType, DEFAULT_MAX_BACKUPS,
};

fn main() -> Result<(), wow_sharedmedia::Error> {
    // The addon name is derived from the folder path.
    // "!!!MyMedia" sorts to top in the addon list;
    // "MyMedia" works too.
    let addon_dir = Path::new("AddOns/MyMedia");
    ensure_addon_dir(addon_dir, DEFAULT_MAX_BACKUPS)?;

    let source = Path::new("assets/my-statusbar.png");
    let result = import_media(
        addon_dir,
        ImportOptions::new(MediaType::Statusbar, "My Statusbar", source),
        DEFAULT_MAX_BACKUPS,
    )?;

    println!("Imported {} as {}", result.entry.key, result.entry.file);

    let data = read_data(addon_dir)?;
    println!("{} entries registered", data.entries.len());

    Ok(())
}

🧩 Supported Media Types

🧭 Design

The crate treats data.lua as the single source of truth.

Every write operation follows the same model:

1. Ensure the addon directory and static templates exist
2. Read the current registry state from data.lua
3. Apply the requested mutation
4. Write the updated registry back to disk

This keeps the runtime model small, deterministic, and easy to integrate into higher-level tools.

🏷️ Addon Name Resolution

The addon name is derived from the folder path — no hardcoding required.

Leading ! characters are stripped from the title automatically.

🗂️ Addon Layout

MyMedia/                        # or !!!MyMedia — both work
├── MyMedia.toc                 # or !!!MyMedia.toc
├── data.lua
├── loader.lua
├── libraries/
│   ├── LibStub/LibStub.lua
│   ├── CallbackHandler-1.0/CallbackHandler-1.0.lua
│   └── LibSharedMedia-3.0/
│       ├── LibSharedMedia-3.0.lua
│       └── lib.xml
└── media/
    ├── background/
    ├── border/
    ├── font/
    ├── sound/
    └── statusbar/

📚 See Also

• Contributing — development setup, commit conventions, and PR expectations
• Release Process — how releases are automated and published to crates.io

📄 License

MIT