Garbage data for sourcename?

[Turmfalke2]

hi, I am trying to understand the parser output. For example:

{
  "time": 676,
  "type": "DOTA_COMBATLOG_MODIFIER_ADD",
  "value": 1,
  "attackername": "npc_dota_hero_bounty_hunter",
  "targetname": "npc_dota_hero_bristleback",
  "sourcename": "npc_dota_hero_lycan",
  "targetsourcename": "dota_unknown",
  "attackerhero": true,
  "targethero": true,
  "attackerillusion": false,
  "targetillusion": false,
  "inflictor": "modifier_bounty_hunter_track"
}

I read this as bounty hunter tracked bristleback, but what has lycan to do with this? What is the sourcename?

Brisleback and lycan are on the same team, so no lotus orb shenanigans.

[howardchung]

What match ID was this?

[Turmfalke2]

5770770321

[howardchung]

Looking at the match data I don't see anything obvious. If you have the replay try watching it in client and seeing what's going on?

[Turmfalke2]

I have played that game and I was the bounty hunter.

This is also not a one of issue, every instance of me (bounty hunter) tracking someone has sourcename set to lycan. I would like to understand why this is the case, or what the sourcename is supposed to containe.

$ jq 'select(.type == "DOTA_COMBATLOG_MODIFIER_ADD" and .inflictor == "modifier_bounty_hunter_track") | .sourcename' /tmp/b  | sort | uniq -c
     42 "npc_dota_hero_lycan"

[howardchung]

It's possible that it's just incorrect data written to the replay and not used by anything. not all fields are used by all combat log events