Price cruncher for EVEonline market data for Aideron Robotics
Goals:
1) Read in RAW MATERIAL price data from an external database (eve-central, evemarketeer, etc) [COMPLETE]
2) Read in price data from EVE API journals.
a) For "real" RAW MATERIALS costs
b) For "real" FINAL PRODUCTS costs
3) Crunch RAW MATERIAL costs into price-to-build data [IN PROGRESS]
a) Read in RAW MATERIAL cost sheet [COMPLETE]
b) Crunch SUB COMPONENT prices into local hash [COMPLETE]
c) Process material requirements and output price data
4) Download price data for FINAL PRODUCTS from an external database (eve-central, evemarketeer, etc)
5) Create a wrapper that can be run periodically to generate reports for graphing
6) Crunch other data into central XML's for easy utilization elsewhere (googledoc, website, etc)
7) Build shopping-list/kit-list using build requirements and AIDER assignments
DATA:
1) price.xml: Output from priceparse.pl and JournalCrunch.pl. Contains several pricepoints to calculate with
2) component.xml: Contains sub-component build requirements. Used by costcrunch.pl to price FINAL PRODUCTS
3) manufacture.xml: Contains FINAL PRODUCT build requirements. Used by costcrunch.pl to build initial price list
4) report.xml (not started): Output from costcrunch.pl. Contains actual build costs as per line args
5) t1.xml: Contains build materials for T1.
6) producers.xml: Contains builder char# and assigned goods. Used to calculate individual kits
7) kits.xml: using producers.xml and manufacture.xml contains kit requirements. Also has full shopping list
PROGRAMS:
1) priceparse.pl: Queries external database for price information and builds a raw-materials cost sheet
-INPUT: selected database (eve-central, evemarketeer)
-OUTPUT: price.xml
2) costcrunch.pl: uses local DB's for material requirements and outputs the pure cost for building materials
-INPUT: price.xml, t1.xml, component.xml, manufacture.xml
-OUTPUT: report_<period length><period number>.xml
EX: report_W14.xml <--week 14's report
3) JournalCrunch.pl: processes EVE-O API data to generate "real" prices for goods. Adds <real></real> tags to items
-INPUT: report.xml, price.xml
-OUTPUT: report.xml, price.xml
[NOT STARTED YET]
4) KitCrunch.pl: builds kit-list for each inventor.
-INPUT: producers.xml, manufacture.xml
-OUTPUT: kits.xml
NOTES:
Perl uses XML::Simple and XML::Writer.
-Added /lib with packages
-Recommended usage
-Strawberry Perl (WIN): cpan <package>