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Nicolas Lebacq c9cc4324d3 NextAction refactoring to eliminate sentinel arrays and pointers (#1923)
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# Description

This PR aims to refactor the NextAction declaration to achieve two
goals:

## Eliminate C-style sentinel arrays

Currently, a double pointer (`NextAction**`) approach is being used.
This an old pre-C++11 (< 2011) trick before `std::vector<>` became a
thing.
This approach is painful for developers because they constantly need to
declare their `NextAction` arrays as:
```cpp
NextAction::array(0, new NextAction("foo", 1.0f), nullptr)
```
Instead of:
```cpp
{ new NextAction("foo", 1.0f) }
```
The first argument of `NextAction::array` is actually a hack. It is used
to have a named argument so `va_args` can find the remaining arguments.
It is set to 0 everywhere but in fact does nothing. This is very
confusing to people unfamiliar with this antiquated syntax.
The last argument `nullptr` is what we call a sentinel. It's a `nullptr`
because `va_args` is looking for a `nullptr` to stop iterating. It's
also a hack and also leads to confusion.

## Eliminate unnecessary pointers for `NextAction`

Pointers can be used for several reasons, to cite a few:
- Indicate strong, absolute identity.
- Provide strong but transferable ownership (unlike references).
- When a null value is acceptable (`nullptr`).
- When copy is expensive.

`NextAction` meets none of these criteria:
- It has no identity because it is purely behavioural.
- It is never owned by anything as it is passed around and never fetched
from a registry.
- The only situations where it can be `nullptr` are errors that should
in fact throw an `std::invalid_argument` instead.
- They are extremely small objects that embark a single `std::string`
and a single `float`.

Pointers should be avoided when not strictly necessary because they can
quickly lead to undefined behaviour due to unhandled `nullptr`
situations. They also make the syntax heavier due to the necessity to
constantly check for `nullptr`. Finally, they aren't even good for
performance in that situation because shifting a pointer so many times
is likely more expensive than copying such a trivial object.

# End goal

The end goal is to declare `NextAction` arrays this way:
```cpp
{ NextAction("foo", 1.0f) }
```

> [!NOTE]
> Additional note: `NextAction` is nothing but a hacky proxy to an
`Action` constructor. This should eventually be reworked to use handles
instead of strings. This would make copying `NextAction` even cheaper
and remove the need for the extremely heavy stringly typed current
approach. Stringly typed entities are a known anti-pattern so we need to
move on from those.
2026-01-06 12:37:39 +01:00

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/*
* Copyright (C) 2016+ AzerothCore <www.azerothcore.org>, released under GNU AGPL v3 license, you may redistribute it
* and/or modify it under version 3 of the License, or (at your option), any later version.
*/
#include "GenericDruidStrategy.h"
#include "Playerbots.h"
class GenericDruidStrategyActionNodeFactory : public NamedObjectFactory<ActionNode>
{
public:
GenericDruidStrategyActionNodeFactory()
{
creators["melee"] = &melee;
creators["caster form"] = &caster_form;
creators["cure poison"] = &cure_poison;
creators["cure poison on party"] = &cure_poison_on_party;
creators["abolish poison"] = &abolish_poison;
creators["abolish poison on party"] = &abolish_poison_on_party;
creators["rebirth"] = &rebirth;
creators["entangling roots on cc"] = &entangling_roots_on_cc;
creators["innervate"] = &innervate;
}
private:
static ActionNode* melee([[maybe_unused]] PlayerbotAI* botAI)
{
return new ActionNode("melee",
/*P*/ {},
/*A*/ {},
/*C*/ {});
}
static ActionNode* caster_form([[maybe_unused]] PlayerbotAI* botAI)
{
return new ActionNode("caster form",
/*P*/ {},
/*A*/ {},
/*C*/ {});
}
static ActionNode* cure_poison([[maybe_unused]] PlayerbotAI* botAI)
{
return new ActionNode("cure poison",
/*P*/ {},
/*A*/ {},
/*C*/ {});
}
static ActionNode* cure_poison_on_party([[maybe_unused]] PlayerbotAI* botAI)
{
return new ActionNode("cure poison on party",
/*P*/ {},
/*A*/ {},
/*C*/ {});
}
static ActionNode* abolish_poison([[maybe_unused]] PlayerbotAI* botAI)
{
return new ActionNode("abolish poison",
/*P*/ {},
/*A*/ {},
/*C*/ {});
}
static ActionNode* abolish_poison_on_party([[maybe_unused]] PlayerbotAI* botAI)
{
return new ActionNode("abolish poison on party",
/*P*/ {},
/*A*/ {},
/*C*/ {});
}
static ActionNode* rebirth([[maybe_unused]] PlayerbotAI* botAI)
{
return new ActionNode("rebirth",
/*P*/ {},
/*A*/ {},
/*C*/ {});
}
static ActionNode* entangling_roots_on_cc([[maybe_unused]] PlayerbotAI* botAI)
{
return new ActionNode("entangling roots on cc",
/*P*/ { NextAction("caster form") },
/*A*/ {},
/*C*/ {});
}
static ActionNode* innervate([[maybe_unused]] PlayerbotAI* botAI)
{
return new ActionNode("innervate",
/*P*/ {},
/*A*/ { NextAction("mana potion") },
/*C*/ {});
}
};
GenericDruidStrategy::GenericDruidStrategy(PlayerbotAI* botAI) : CombatStrategy(botAI)
{
actionNodeFactories.Add(new GenericDruidStrategyActionNodeFactory());
}
void GenericDruidStrategy::InitTriggers(std::vector<TriggerNode*>& triggers)
{
CombatStrategy::InitTriggers(triggers);
triggers.push_back(
new TriggerNode("low health", { NextAction("barkskin", ACTION_HIGH + 7) }));
triggers.push_back(new TriggerNode("combat party member dead",
{ NextAction("rebirth", ACTION_HIGH + 9) }));
triggers.push_back(new TriggerNode("being attacked",
{ NextAction("nature's grasp", ACTION_HIGH + 1) }));
triggers.push_back(new TriggerNode("new pet", { NextAction("set pet stance", 60.0f) }));
}
void DruidCureStrategy::InitTriggers(std::vector<TriggerNode*>& triggers)
{
triggers.push_back(
new TriggerNode("party member cure poison",
{ NextAction("abolish poison on party", ACTION_DISPEL + 1) }));
triggers.push_back(
new TriggerNode("party member remove curse",
{ NextAction("remove curse on party", ACTION_DISPEL + 7) }));
}
void DruidBoostStrategy::InitTriggers(std::vector<TriggerNode*>& triggers)
{
triggers.push_back(new TriggerNode(
"nature's swiftness", { NextAction("nature's swiftness", ACTION_HIGH + 9) }));
}
void DruidCcStrategy::InitTriggers(std::vector<TriggerNode*>& triggers)
{
triggers.push_back(new TriggerNode(
"entangling roots", { NextAction("entangling roots on cc", ACTION_HIGH + 2) }));
triggers.push_back(new TriggerNode(
"entangling roots kite", { NextAction("entangling roots", ACTION_HIGH + 2) }));
triggers.push_back(new TriggerNode(
"hibernate", { NextAction("hibernate on cc", ACTION_HIGH + 3) }));
}
void DruidHealerDpsStrategy::InitTriggers(std::vector<TriggerNode*>& triggers)
{
triggers.push_back(
new TriggerNode("healer should attack",
{
NextAction("cancel tree form", ACTION_DEFAULT + 0.3f),
NextAction("moonfire", ACTION_DEFAULT + 0.2f),
NextAction("wrath", ACTION_DEFAULT + 0.1f),
NextAction("starfire", ACTION_DEFAULT),
}));
}