fix(magic): fail cast instead of throwing when spell widget is missing

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Problem

Script error telemetry group 162 (2 reports / 2 total, client 2.6.30): NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "Widget.getId()" because the return value of ... is null at MagicAction.getWidgetId:262 ← Rs2Magic.cast:172 ← Rs2WalkerTransports.handleTeleportSpell:1885, logged by Rs2Walker on the ShortestPathScript thread. The walker's teleport-spell transport crashed instead of falling back.

Root cause

MagicAction.getWidgetId() and getActions() chained Rs2Widget.findWidget(name, ...) straight into .getId() / .getActions(). findWidget returns null when the spell's name cannot be matched in interface 218 at that moment, or when the client-thread call yields empty. Rs2Magic.canCast resolves the spell by sprite on 218:3, but getWidgetId resolves it by name on 218:0, so the cast can get past canCast and still find no widget.

This is not a stale mapping from the 2.6.30 RuneLite sync. Between 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 there are no changes to MagicAction, Rs2Magic, Rs2Widget or the skillcalculator package, and the lookup uses hardcoded group 218 ids, not renamed InterfaceID constants. The telemetry does not record which spell failed, so the exact trigger is still unknown.

Change

• MagicAction.getWidgetId() returns -1 and getActions() returns null when the spellbook root or the spell widget is missing.
• Rs2Magic.cast resolves the widget id once. If no widget is found, it logs and returns false, which handleTeleportSpell and the walker already handle by trying another transport. Before, -1 threw NotImplementedException, and the separate getWidget(...).getBounds() lookup could also hit a null.
• Rs2Magic.alch no longer calls Rs2Widget.getWidget(-1).

Validation

• New Rs2MagicMissingSpellWidgetTest (4 tests) covers: missing spell widget, spellbook root not loaded, cast returning false without invoking a menu entry, and a widget that disappears after its id was resolved.
• ./gradlew :client:runUnitTests --tests '*Rs2MagicMissingSpellWidgetTest' --tests '*ClientThreadGuardrail*' passes. This includes compiling :client.

Known gaps

• Not tested live in a running client.
• The name-based widget lookup and the sprite-based canCast check are still inconsistent. A failing cast now degrades to a fallback transport instead of crashing.

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Walkthrough

MagicAction now resolves spell widgets by name and falls back to matching sprite IDs. Missing widgets return sentinel values. Rs2Magic checks for a valid widget before casting and exits when the alchemy widget ID is unavailable. New tests cover missing and unloaded spellbooks, failed casts, and sprite-based lookup.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c46a7

The fix makes casting return false instead of throwing when the spell widget is missing. A small remaining edge case could still throw if the spell list holds a null entry; guarding it is a one-line change.

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Review notes (pushed c46a74a):

• Merged development (fix(microbot): error telemetry follow-ups from release review #1902, chore: merge main (2.6.30) back into development #1903, fix(client-thread): log client-thread timeouts as rate-limited warning #1912–fix(coords): treat a null wrapped WorldPoint as unreachable in Rs2WorldPoint #1916). The merge was clean.
• MagicAction.findSpellWidget now falls back to the sprite match on 218:3 that Rs2Magic.canCast already uses. This removes the persistent case where canCast passes but the name lookup on 218:0 finds nothing. Added widgetLookupFallsBackToSpriteWhenNameDoesNotMatch.
• Callers: Rs2Magic.cast and Rs2Magic.alch are the only callers of MagicAction.getWidgetId and getActions, and both handle -1 and null.
• Follow-up, not blocking: the PR body says the walker tries another transport when the cast returns false. It does not. handleSelectedTransport runs only the single planned edge, and checkFirstRouteInteractionAtRange returns PENDING. While an immediate route transport is pending, stall recovery is suppressed, so a teleport spell that keeps failing is retried rather than replanned around. Every existing false return in handleTeleportSpell (wilderness, provider prep, canCast) already behaves this way. It could be addressed separately with a short-lived exclusion of failed originless teleports.

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🟠 Major · Apply the null-child check before casting. · Rs2Magic.java:107

runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/util/magic/Rs2Magic.java:107
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Apply the null-child check before casting.

If 218:3 contains a null child, canCast throws while evaluating getSpriteId(). This occurs before cast can return false. Skip null children in canCast.

🐛 Suggested fix

-        Widget widget = Arrays.stream(spellbook.getStaticChildren()).filter(x -> x.getSpriteId() == magicSpell.getSprite()).findFirst().orElse(null);
+        Widget widget = Arrays.stream(spellbook.getStaticChildren()).filter(x -> x != null && x.getSpriteId() == magicSpell.getSprite()).findFirst().orElse(null);

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Review comment at
@runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/util/magic/Rs2Magic.java
at line 107:
Update the child filter in canCast to skip null entries before calling
getSpriteId(), so a null child in the spellbook does not throw and the existing
false result path remains available. Locate the stream over
spellbook.getStaticChildren() in canCast.

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- Line 107: Update the child filter in canCast to skip null entries before
calling getSpriteId(), so a null child in the spellbook does not throw and the
existing false result path remains available. Locate the stream over
spellbook.getStaticChildren() in canCast.

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