LUA Question with reading buff name 1.12.1

[pinny]

So on the vanilla wow api wiki
API UnitBuff | Vanilla WoW Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia

It states that UnitBuff can be used such as

name, rank, icon, count, debuffType, duration, expirationTime, unitCaster, isStealable,
shouldConsolidate, spellId = UnitBuff("unit", index or ["name", "rank"][, "filter"])

However it looks like it is different in 1.12.1

When targeting a player with Devotion Aura for the first buff slot, and using the following code

a1, a2 = UnitBuff("target",1)
DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(a1);
DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(a2);

I get the following result


Also, I tried changing the index which is 1 in my code to the buff name to check for a buff that way. It looks like the 1.12.1 API only accepts indexes and not actual buff names.
Is there any way using the 1.12.1 LUA API to check if a player has a buff/debuff other than comparing the icon to guess what it is?

[Glusk]

Looking at your output (and having never tested it before myself) it would seem that the wiki is correct.

See History on your link:

Patch 2.0 added name and rank return values.

It looks like the 1.12.1 API only accepts indexes and not actual buff names.

Unless you made a typo, that is probably true then.

See if you can print out spellId and fetch the name via GetSpellInfo(spellId)

[pinny]

Looking at your output (and having never tested it before myself) it would seem that the wiki is correct.

See History on your link:
Unless you made a typo, that is probably true then.

See if you can print out spellId and fetch the name via GetSpellInfo(spellId)

GetSpellInfo is not part of the 1.12.1 Lua API. Thanks anyways though.

[ev0]

GitHub - Schaka/GetSpellInfoVanilla: An addon to help developers access information about spells, for example to create buffs for addons

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GitHub - Schaka/BuffHook: World of Warcraft 1.12.1 Vanilla Addon which shows enemy buffs by hooking WoW API's UnitBuff(unitID, index) and adding buffs to it.