Getting the trade offers on a dock

[MegaJohnny]

Hi all - been bumbling about with code again and I've hit a snag.

I have an idea for an AI script that makes use of the L/XL trading docks on stations. I want the ship to approach each dock on a station in turn and reveal the associated trade offers to the player (it'll be an M ship or smaller, so no worries about getting right up close to it). I can get the trade docks as so:

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<find_object_component groupname="$tradedocks" multiple="true" class="class.tradeofferdock" object="$station" />

And I can find the trade offers in a zone by merging the results of:

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<find_sell_offer space="this.ship.zone" multiple="true" result="$sellers" />
<find_buy_offer space="this.ship.zone" multiple="true" result="$buyers" />

But I've no idea how to get which trade offer objects are associated with which trade dock objects. I know the link isn't strict, as ships can park up at any free dock, but I just want to get from the trade docks a list of the offers you would see when you click on its icon. Does anyone know a way to do this?

[YorrickVander]

Not that I want to put you off mate, but I don't get the point of doing this. We already have smalltalk to get constant price data for any station we can land at...

[MegaJohnny]

We do - I'm just trying to make an alternative method to get the information. I do like the trade subscription system but I'm not a fan of how it uses none of the player's resources (besides time) and never goes away (compared to the old adv sats that could be destroyed). A system like this would also let us get the trade offers from a remote location. I always liked stuff that lets the player influence things without being physically present - for me that's one of the staples of the X-series.