work in progress: intel site 'botguard' interface.

not yet complete. initialisation is probably right - but need to check/complete the request param creation, and implement the response processing

code/extract_niantic_parameters.js

@@ -5,13 +5,12 @@
 window.extractFromStock = function() {
   window.niantic_params = {}
 
-  //TODO: need to search through the stock intel minified functions/data structures for the required variables
-  // just as a *very* quick fix, test the theory with hard-coded variable names
-
 
   // extract the former nemesis.dashboard.config.CURRENT_VERSION from the code
   var reVersion = new RegExp('[a-z]=[a-z].getData\\(\\);[a-z].v="([a-f0-9]{40})";');
 
+  // we also extract all top-level arrays of strings, for botguard
+  var arrays = [];
 
   var minified = new RegExp('^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]$');
 
@@ -19,8 +18,8 @@ window.extractFromStock = function() {
     if (minified.test(topLevel)) {
       // a minified object - check for minified prototype entries
 
-      // the object has a prototype - iterate through the properties of that
       if (window[topLevel] && window[topLevel].prototype) {
+        // the object has a prototype - iterate through the properties of that
         for (var secLevel in window[topLevel].prototype) {
           if (minified.test(secLevel)) {
 
@@ -44,17 +43,86 @@ window.extractFromStock = function() {
         }
 
       }
+
+      // finding the required method names for the botguard interface code
+      if (window[topLevel] && Object.prototype.toString.call(window[topLevel]) == "[object Array]") {
+        // look for all arrays in the top-level namespace
+
+        var arr = window[topLevel];
+        var onlyStrings = true;
+        if (arr.length > 0) {
+          for (var i in arr) {
+            if (Object.prototype.toString.call(arr[i]) != "[object String]") {
+              onlyStrings = false;
+              break;
+            }
+          }
+          if (onlyStrings) {
+            arrays.push(arr);
+          }
+        }
+
+      }
+
     }
   }
 
+  // we extracted a list of string arrays. now, we need to find which ones we want to use
+  // there are two. both contain a list of method names - one is the list of methods protected by either
+  // botguard group-a or group-b, while the others is just a list of those in one group
 
-  if (niantic_params.CURRENT_VERSION === undefined) {
+  window.niantic_params.botguard_protected_methods = [];
+  window.niantic_params.botguard_group_methods = [];
+
+  var countMethods = function(arr) {
+    var methods = ['artifacts', 'getGameScore', 'getPlexts', 'getPortalDetails', 'redeemReward', 'sendInviteEmail', 'sendPlext'];
+    var count = 0;
+    for (var j in arr) {
+      if (methods.indexOf(arr[j]) != -1) {
+        count++;
+      }
+    }
+    return count;
+  }
+
+  var protectedMethodsCount = 0;
+  var groupMethodsCount = 0;
+
+  for (var i in arrays) {
+    var arr = arrays[i];
+    var arrCount = countMethods(arr);
+
+    // now store the longest in niantic_params.botguard_protected_methods, and 2nd longest in .niantic_params.botguard_group_methods
+
+    if (arrCount > protectedMethodsCount) {
+      // longest found - copy any existing longest to the 2nd longest
+
+      window.niantic_params.botguard_group_methods = window.niantic_params.botguard_protected_methods;
+      groupMethodsCount = protectedMethodsCount;
+
+      //... and set the longest
+      window.niantic_params.botguard_protected_methods = arr;
+      protectedMethodsCount = arrCount;
+
+    } else if (arrCount > groupMethodsCount) {
+      // 2nd longest - store
+      window.niantic_params.botguard_group_methods = arr;
+      groupMethodsCount = arrCount;
+    }
+
+  }
+
+
+  if (niantic_params.CURRENT_VERSION === undefined || window.niantic_params.botguard_protected_methods.length == 0 || window.niantic_params.botguard_group_methods == 0) {
     dialog({
       title: 'IITC Broken',
-      html: '<p>IITC failed to extract the required varsion parameter from the intel site</p>'
+      html: '<p>IITC failed to extract the required parameters from the intel site</p>'
            +'<p>This can happen after Niantic update the standard intel site. A fix will be needed from the IITC developers.</p>',
     });
 
+    console.log('Discovered parameters');
+    console.log(JSON.stringify(window.niantic_params,null,2));
+
     throw('Error: IITC failed to extract CURRENT_VERSION string - cannot continue');
   }