Advice/support for "Ingress Planner"

[manierim]

Hi all,

I am a "newbie" Ingress player (started last November, just reached L8) and an hobbyist "web coder".

Soon after starting playing I found the wonderful IITC addon and started to use it to plan my fielding operations. I do love complex fielding ops! I quickly gained AP with a number of articulated "lone wolf" operation and become known in my local faction community (I'm ENL) as "the crazy fielder".

I was designing my plan with the Draw Tools and then writing down on text files my detailed schedules, using IITC to check for proper progression against portal keys, portal ownership & resos status, cross links removal etc.

After a while I realized that there was too much manual work that often led to mistakes. I started to think to code something to help me check at least the basic stuff, like portal keys. A few trials for a "disconnected" solution quickly revealed it was not a way to go.

So I started checking if there was a way to "interact" with IITC, and started to "lurk" at your user-scripts and to a way to access them from an "external" site. I made the decision to "host" IITC inside a frame on my own webapp and "bidirectionally" exchange information trough "Cross-document messaging" between my site script and a custom IITC plugin.

As of today I feel the app to be complete for my personal use, and started to think to the possibility to make it publicly and freely available to other Ingress enthusiasts.

Since my work is heavily based on IITC, I feel appropriate to get advice/evaluation first of all from the IITC admin/dev group about this project.

It is currently hosted at http://www.marco.manieri.name/ingressplanner/

I would like any comment, idea, suggestion from you about the idea, the realization and the evaluation of its value for the Ingress community. If you think it might be worth trying to make it to the public, I would like very much any kind of support/direction you might want to give me: from issues in the quality/behavior of the IITC plugin to any other technical aspect, as well as non-technical things as, for example, language issue (English is not my native language), look & feel, etc etc.

So if you can please explore the webapp and let me know your thought on it.

Best regards,

Marco Manieri Perugia, Italy

[flamusdiu]

@manierim That's an interesting tool you have setup.

Here's what I noticed for it:

1) Needs better documentation. It took me a few mins to realized there is a IITC plugin required to use the site. Along with this, need to make clear any other IITC plugins that need to be installed/enabled as well.

2) There is some odd issues with trying to get it to actually get the portals/links/fields to show up in the list. I don't know why that is. However, going with point 1, you might need to show an example or other Tips on using the site in case things need to be worked out in a certain order.

You've still got a good working site though. =)

[manierim]

@flamusdiu Added a "quickstep" on top of the "Help" tab, might this help?

[flamusdiu]

@manierim yeah, that might. write it up and me or someone else can take a look. Some of the work flow isn't very well documented at the moment and an example would help people who just saw your tool.

[flamusdiu]

You could also link the the proper plugins using this table of information

Info Link: http://iitc.jonatkins.com/?page=desktop#plugin-ref-id(from col 1)
Download Link: http://iitc.jonatkins.com/(Info from 3rd col)

Examples:

• http://iitc.jonatkins.com/?page=desktop#plugin-keys
• http://iitc.jonatkins.com/release/plugins/keys.user.js

Plugin ID Ref	Plugin Name	Plugin Download URL
plugin-show-linked-portals	Show linked portals	release/plugins/show-linked-portals.user.js
plugin-reso-energy-pct-in-portal-detail	reso energy pct in portal detail	release/plugins/reso-energy-pct-in-portal-detail.user.js
plugin-portals-list	show list of portals	release/plugins/portals-list.user.js
plugin-guess-player-levels	guess player level	release/plugins/guess-player-levels.user.js
plugin-portal-counts	Show total counts of portals	release/plugins/portal-counts.user.js
plugin-compute-ap-stats	Compute AP statistics	release/plugins/compute-ap-stats.user.js
plugin-layer-farms-find	Show farms by level	release/plugins/layer-farms-find.user.js
plugin-scoreboard	show a localized scoreboard.	release/plugins/scoreboard.user.js
plugin-score-cycle-times	Show scoreboard cycle/checkpoint times	release/plugins/score-cycle-times.user.js
plugin-layer-count	layer count	release/plugins/layer-count.user.js
plugin-keys	Keys	release/plugins/keys.user.js
plugin-keys-on-map	Keys on map	release/plugins/keys-on-map.user.js
plugin-bookmarks-by-zaso	Bookmarks for maps and portals	release/plugins/bookmarks-by-zaso.user.js
plugin-scale-bar	scale bar	release/plugins/scale-bar.user.js
plugin-zoom-slider	zoom slider	release/plugins/zoom-slider.user.js
plugin-pan-control	pan control	release/plugins/pan-control.user.js
plugin-minimap	Mini map	release/plugins/minimap.user.js
plugin-show-portal-weakness	show portal weakness	release/plugins/show-portal-weakness.user.js
plugin-portal-highlighter-forgotten	Inactive portals. Hightlight unclaimed portals with no recent activity	release/plugins/portal-highlighter-forgotten.user.js
plugin-portal-highlighter-needs-recharge	hightlight portals that need recharging	release/plugins/portal-highlighter-needs-recharge.user.js
plugin-portal-highlighter-missing-resonators	highlight portals missing resonators	release/plugins/portal-highlighter-missing-resonators.user.js
plugin-portal-highlighter-level-color	highlight portals by level color	release/plugins/portal-highlighter-level-color.user.js
plugin-portal-highlighter-hide-team	Hide portal ownership	release/plugins/portal-highlighter-hide-team.user.js
plugin-portal-highlighter-high-level	highlight high level portals	release/plugins/portal-highlighter-high-level.user.js
plugin-portal-highlighter-portals-my-level	highlight portals by my level	release/plugins/portal-highlighter-portals-my-level.user.js
plugin-portal-highlighter-infrastructure	highlight portals with infrastructure problems	release/plugins/portal-highlighter-infrastructure.user.js
plugin-portal-highlighter-ornaments	hightlight portals with ornaments	release/plugins/portal-highlighter-ornaments.user.js
plugin-player-tracker	Player tracker	release/plugins/player-tracker.user.js
plugin-draw-tools	draw tools	release/plugins/draw-tools.user.js
plugin-portal-level-numbers	Portal Level Numbers	release/plugins/portal-level-numbers.user.js
plugin-max-links	Max Links	release/plugins/max-links.user.js
plugin-fly-links	Fly Links	release/plugins/fly-links.user.js
plugin-cross_link	cross links	release/plugins/cross_link.user.js
plugin-portal-names	Portal Names	release/plugins/portal-names.user.js
plugin-regions	Show the local score regions	release/plugins/regions.user.js
plugin-zaprange	Zaprange	release/plugins/zaprange.user.js
plugin-add-kml	overlay KML	release/plugins/add-kml.user.js
plugin-done-links	done links	release/plugins/done-links.user.js
plugin-basemap-openstreetmap	OpenStreetMap.org map tiles	release/plugins/basemap-openstreetmap.user.js
plugin-basemap-gmaps-gray	Gray Google Roads	release/plugins/basemap-gmaps-gray.user.js
plugin-basemap-blank	Blank map	release/plugins/basemap-blank.user.js
plugin-basemap-opencyclemap	OpenCycleMap.org map tiles	release/plugins/basemap-opencyclemap.user.js
plugin-basemap-yandex	Yandex maps	release/plugins/basemap-yandex.user.js
plugin-basemap-bing	Bing maps	release/plugins/basemap-bing.user.js
plugin-basemap-stamen	Map layers from stamen.com	release/plugins/basemap-stamen.user.js
plugin-basemap-mapquest-open-aerial	MapQuest Open Satellite view (US Only)	release/plugins/basemap-mapquest-open-aerial.user.js
plugin-basemap-nokia-ovi	Nokia OVI maps	release/plugins/basemap-nokia-ovi.user.js
plugin-basemap-kartverket	Kartverket.no map tiles	release/plugins/basemap-kartverket.user.js
plugin-show-more-portals	Show more portals	release/plugins/show-more-portals.user.js
plugin-link-show-direction	Show the direction of links on the map	release/plugins/link-show-direction.user.js
plugin-force-https	force https access for ingress.com/intel	release/plugins/force-https.user.js
plugin-periodic-refresh	Periodic refresh	release/plugins/periodic-refresh.user.js
plugin-default-intel-detail	Default intel detail level	release/plugins/default-intel-detail.user.js
plugin-canvas-render	Use Canvas rendering	release/plugins/canvas-render.user.js
plugin-scroll-wheel-zoom-disable	disable mouse wheel zoom	release/plugins/scroll-wheel-zoom-disable.user.js
plugin-show-less-portals-zoomed-out	Show less portals when zoomed out	release/plugins/show-less-portals-zoomed-out.user.js
plugin-fix-googlemap-china-offset	Fix Google Map offsets in China	release/plugins/fix-googlemap-china-offset.user.js
plugin-sync	Sync	release/plugins/sync.user.js
plugin-uniques	Uniques	release/plugins/uniques.user.js
plugin-update-check	Check for updates	release/plugins/update-check.user.js
plugin-privacy-view	Privacy view on Intel	release/plugins/privacy-view.user.js
plugin-speech-search	Speech Search	release/plugins/speech-search.user.js

[manierim]

After a little break due to personal things I was going to try implement/improve as per above suggestions but I discovered that my app no longer works due to an IITC code change.

The problem is in this piece of code in window.extractFromStock() function, called at boot:

  // required for botguard
  var requestPrototype = (function() {
    for(var topLevel in window) {
      if(!window[topLevel]) continue;
      // need an example for a request object
      for(var property in window[topLevel]) {
        if(window[topLevel][property] == "getRegionScoreDetails") {
          return Object.getPrototypeOf(window[topLevel]);
        }
      }
    }
  })();

What happens is that when the code (running in an iframe inside my site) try to access window.top or window.parent or window.frameElement the browser throws a "SecurityError: Blocked a frame with origin "https://www.ingress.com" from accessing a frame with origin "http://www.marco.manieri.name"".

I've solved the issue dropping some checks to avoid this as follow:

  var requestPrototype = (function() {

    for(var topLevel in window) {

      // avoid SecurityError when IITC is inside a frame on a different domain (i.e. Ingress Planner)
      if (topLevel=='top') continue;

      if(!window[topLevel]) continue;
      // need an example for a request object
      for(var property in window[topLevel]) {

        // avoid SecurityError when IITC is inside a frame on a different domain (i.e. Ingress Planner)
        if (property=='top') continue;
        if (property=='parent') continue;
        if (property=='frameElement') continue;

        if(window[topLevel][property] == "getRegionScoreDetails") {
          return Object.getPrototypeOf(window[topLevel]);
        }
      }
    }
  })();

Is this a change, and the problem it causes to (just) my webapp worth submitting as a pull request?

[fkloft]

This has already been fixed in the test builds.

[manierim]

Just downloaded the test build (2015-02-09-135508) but the problem still exist before the try catch in the second loop.

In the outer loop

      if(!window[topLevel]) continue;

still causes the cross-origin SecurityError. I tried wrapping it in another try catch as well but for some reasons it still generate an unhandled exception?!

So I had to add the following check

      if (topLevel=='top') continue; // next line might throw SecurityError on cross-origin, also if wrapped in a try catch?!
      if(!window[topLevel]) continue;

PS: meanwhile I also added the info & download links in the relevan help/quickstart items

[lablua]

Intriguing, but the problem with implementing this as a website rather than a plugin is that i have to trust your website not to steal my plans and give them to my opponents, or at least the Resistance do. Wait, maybe that's not a problem, I just have to verify you are really ENL. :-)

[manierim]

Well, you can check the JavaScript downloaded to your browser from the site as well as you should do with the iitc script to make sure data are not logged externally :) You would then notice that plans are stored in your gdrive account and not on my server. The only tracking activity done on the site is the standard Google analytics one. BTW I have been thinking to move everything inside an IITC plugin to make it usable also on mobile devices (tablets). I'll have to learn much more about IITC plugins framework before, but I'll eventually try that way if there will be enough interest in the future for the system itself.

[andy-elaphos]

Can I reorder the steps? Didn't find any possibilty...

[manierim]

Just drag and drop the rows in the table to reorder them.

[andy-elaphos]

Ok, got it. Tried that on the only spot where this doesn't work: First column, left of the quadruple arrow... -.-