Bug: The auction house's inventory automatically decreases until there is nothing left.

[moncat2005]

Current Behaviour

The code for mod ah bot will be updated after December.
The auction house items are normal when the server restarts.
But as the running time continues, the items in the auction house will become fewer and fewer.
Basically, there will be no products left in the auction house after 3 days.
As long as the server restarts, a new batch of items can be flashed.

Expected Behaviour

Seller and buyer have been configured.
I don't know why the items on the seller's robot shelves are decreasing over time.
There was no such problem in September.

Steps to reproduce the problem

1. Configure buyers and sellers
2. Configure 200 items
3. Starting the server and entering the auction house to scan the products, 2000 items can be found
4. Keep the WorldServer program running for 2-3 days
5. Scanning the auction house again, it was found that the item was 0

Extra Notes

No response

AC rev. hash/commit

Commits on Dec 14, 2024 [fd1123caae50f774a62bf81573ffefdfbb834479](https://github.com/azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk/tree/fd1123caae50f774a62bf81573ffefdfbb834479)

Operating system

Ubuntu 22.04

Custom changes or Modules

No response

[kaijikan]

There is a similar thread regarding this. I tried this fix, and it resolved the issue for me.

#126 (comment)

One thing I have noticed since however, is I don't seem to be getting any epics listed on the AH anymore. Let me know if you observe the same.

[kadeshar]

Your solution dont work for me. Details: #126 (comment)

[Jaytapp]

Do you have any more information on the bug?
Any change in config from default?

Does it happen if players don't post any auctions?

I've also seen in happen on our server so i will take a look at the code.
Some stuff in this pull reques #117 was mentioned could be the cause I will investigate.

[moncat2005]

The problem of the gradual decrease in the number of items auctioned by robots does not seem to exist before September.
I suspect that this issue was caused by a commit adjustment after September.

[natugrumu]

I'm having the same problem. I've been working around it by periodically doing a .reload conf, that restarts the filling process for me.

[icemansparks]

I tried to address this in #134 - feel free to have a look :)

[Jaytapp]

The problem mainly lies with the caching of the state of the AH in AuctionHouseBotConfig instead of querying the actual AH database. ( understandable, parsing the 3 AH maps every update is not efficient even if not the end of the world there's not a huge number of items normally )

I've fixed a bunch of magic number mismatch with the define values. I would refactor more for easier readability later but for now i tested my fix with all short auctions, i've seen the AH expire then restock at the next bot update cycle with new items.

My code include lots of bits from @icemansparks and @PixelWeaver from previous fix attempt from them.

My submit there: Jaytapp@679210b

I'll test run the fixes on my server for several days before confirming 100% fixed.