DDL Parse Trees

You may be surprised to see the real names of parameter and structure members on many of the wiki pages. NEX has automatically generated the code that encodes/decodes method parameters and structures from a data definition language (DDL), and many games contain the parse tree of the DDL declarations in their data segment. It's encoded in big-endian byte order (regardless of the platform) and looks as follows:

Type	Description
Uint32	Magic number (0xCD652312)
Uint8	Unknown (always 0)
Uint32	Major version
Uint32	Minor version
Uint32	Micro version
Uint32	Build version
NameSpace	Root namespace

NameSpace

Type	Description
Uint32	Number of elements (N)
Element (N)	Namespace elements

Element

Type	Description
Uint8	Type id
	Body

ID	Type
1	NameSpaceItem
2	Declaration
3	DOClassDeclaration
4	DatasetDeclaration
5	TypeDeclaration
6	Variable
8	RMC
9	Action
10	AdapterDeclaration
11	PropertyDeclaration
12	ProtocolDeclaration
13	Parameter
14	ReturnValue
15	ClassDeclaration
16	TemplateDeclaration
17	SimpleTypeDeclaration
18	TemplateInstance
19	DDLUnitDeclaration
20	DupSpaceDeclaration

String

Type	Description
Uint32	Length (N)
Bytes (N)	String (without null terminator)

DeclarationUse

Type	Description
Uint8	Declaration type (see element)
String	Full type name

Only if declaration type is TemplateInstance:

Type	Description
String	Base type name
Uint8	Number of arguments (N)
DeclarationUse (N)	Argument declaration use

ParseTreeItem

Type	Description
String	Name

NameSpaceItem

The second parse tree item is always the same as the first parse tree item. I don't know why it's stored twice.

Type	Description
ParseTreeItem	Parse tree item
ParseTreeItem	Parse tree item

Declaration

Type	Description
NameSpaceItem	Namespace item
String	DDL unit name
Namespace	Properties

DOClassDeclaration

Type	Description
Declaration	Declaration
String	Parent class name
Uint32	Class id
Namespace	Namespace

DatasetDeclaration

Type	Description
Declaration	Declaration
Namespace	Variables

TypeDeclaration

Type	Description
Declaration	Declaration

MethodDeclaration

Type	Description
Declaration	Declaration
NameSpace	Parameters

Variable

Type	Description
NameSpaceItem	Namespace item
DeclarationUse	Declaration use
Uint32	Array size

RMC

Type	Description
MethodDeclaration	Method declaration
NameSpace	Parameters

Action

Type	Description
MethodDeclaration	Method declaration
NameSpace	Parameters

AdapterDeclaration

Type	Description
Declaration	Declaration

PropertyDeclaration

Type	Description
Declaration	Declaration
Uint32	Category mask
Uint32	Allowed target mask

ProtocolDeclaration

Type	Description
Declaration	Declaration
NameSpace	Methods

Parameter

Type	Description
Variable	Variable
DeclarationUse	Declaration use
Uint32	Array size
Uint8	Type (1=input, 2=output, 3=both)

ReturnValue

Type	Description
Variable	Variable
DeclarationUse	Declaration use
Uint32	Array size

ClassDeclaration

Type	Description
TypeDeclaration	Type declaration
String	Parent class name
NameSpace	Class members

TemplateDeclaration

Type	Description
TypeDeclaration	Type declaration
Uint32	Number of template arguments

SimpleTypeDeclaration

Type	Description
TypeDeclaration	Type declaration

TemplateInstance

Type	Description
TypeDeclaration	Type declaration
String	Base type name
Uint32	Number of template arguments (N)
String (N)	Template arguments

DDLUnitDeclaration

Type	Description
Declaration	Declaration
String	Unit name
String	Unit dir

DupSpaceDeclaration

Type	Description
Declaration	Declaration