[REQUEST] Custom "rulesets" with autoloading

[repsejnworb]

First off, thanks for a great addon!
I right now use profiles to solve my usecase, but it is a clunky "abuse" making it do what I want.

Request/Proposal

Add support for "overload-ruleset/template" that is easily switched on/off manually and can autoload per zone.
Might require a little restructuring of the current rules in the addon to have a nice UX, but a carbon-copy overload would also work.

So essentially I would like to have AutoLooter setup the way I generally like it. But when I go farm Baron in Strat I want to have a different set of whitelisting/blacklisting/minimum price/quality looted etc, and as I later move to Dire Maul I want another set of rules.
Using profiles for this becomes tedious when I decide to update my "default" profile on something I want all the others to also have.
I.e. having "overload"-profiles/rulesets/templates that inherits/only change what is specifically setup in the "overload" would be a huge boon.

Then being able to setup autoload-rules based on zone/instance and having a quick-access to swapping from the minimap-button.

I would propose to also refactor the settings, if this feature were to be picked up, so that "lootingrules" are consolidated and not mixed with "behaviour/general/misc" settings.

[Eliote]

First off, thanks for a great addon!

Thanks! 😄

This sounds way too complicated, specially for lists. (should I override it, or join it?)
Another problem is how do I know if a config should be overwritten or not. Did the user set it to false/true or was it never changed? It would require a new checkbox for every config, and/or make checkbox triple state.
I use AceConfig to generate the interface and I don't want to create my own, low level wow UI is really painful to do right (at least for me). Also with AceConfig I get CLI for free.

The easiest thing I can think of, is to make an "advanced" configuration where you can temporarily edit the profile with an in-game lua script when changing zones.

Something like:

-- any changes here are momentary, when you change zones this code will be called again with the original values.
local options = ...
if GetZoneText() == "Something" then
  -- ideally those parameters would reflect the "cli" of the addon.
  options.set("price", 2000)
  options.set("rarity", 3)
end