Module:Core

Documentation for this module may be created at Module:Core/doc

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This module is intended as collection of core functions shared among several Lua modules 
creating infobox templates on Commons. 

Authors and maintainers:
* User:Jarekt  
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local core = {}

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-- Based on frame structure create "args" table with all the input parameters.
-- All inputs are not not case-sensitive and underscored are treated the same 
-- way as speces. Input values are trimmed and empty string are converted to 
-- nils. If "lang" is not provided than we substitute user's prefered language.
function core.getArgs(frame)
	local function normalize_input_args(input_args, output_args)
		for name, value in pairs( input_args ) do 
			value = string.gsub(value, "^%s*(.-)%s*$", "%1") -- trim whitespaces from the beggining and the end of the string
			if value ~= '' then -- nuke empty strings
				if type(name)=='string' then 
					name = string.gsub( string.lower(name), ' ', '_')
				end
				output_args[name] = value
			end
		end
		return output_args
	end
	local args = {}
	args = normalize_input_args(frame:getParent().args, args)
	args = normalize_input_args(frame.args, args)
	if (args.lang and mw.language.isSupportedLanguage(args.lang)) then 
		args.lang = string.lower(args.lang)
	else
		args.lang = frame:callParserFunction("int","lang")  -- get user's chosen language
	end
	return args
end

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-- code equivalent to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:LangSwitch
function core.langSwitch(list,lang)
	local langList = mw.language.getFallbacksFor(lang)
	table.insert(langList,1,lang)
	for i,language in ipairs(langList) do
		if list[language] then
			return list[language]
		end
	end
end

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-- Function allowing for consistent treatment of boolean-like wikitext input.
-- It works similarly to Module:Yesno
function core.yesno(val, default)
	if type(val) == 'boolean' then
		return val
	elseif type(val) == 'number' then
		if val==1 then 
			return true
		elseif val==0 then
			return false
		end
	elseif type(val) == 'string' then
	    val = mw.ustring.lower(val)  -- put in lower case
	    if val == 'no'  or val == 'n' or val == 'false' or val == '0' then
	        return false
	    elseif val == 'yes' or val == 'y' or val == 'true'  or val == '1' then
	        return true
	    end
    end
    return default
end

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-- read Commons Data:SOMENAME.tab dataset and look for message identified by a 
-- "key" in a language "lang". See editAtWikidata as an example.
function core.formatMessage(dataset, key, lang)
	for _, row in pairs(mw.ext.data.get(dataset, lang).data) do
		local id, msg = unpack(row)
		if id == key then
			return mw.message.newRawMessage(msg):plain()
		end
	end
	error('Invalid message key "' .. key .. '"')
end

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-- Assembles the "Edit at Wikidata" pen icon and returns it as wikitext string.
-- Dependencies: Data:I18n/EditAt.tab
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function core.editAtWikidata(entityID, propertyID, lang)
	local msg  = core.formatMessage('I18n/EditAt.tab', 'EditAtWikidata', lang)
	local link = 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/' .. entityID .. (propertyID == "" and "" or ("#" .. propertyID))
	return " [[File:OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg |frameless |text-top |10px |alt="..msg.."|link="..link.."|"..msg.."]]"
end

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-- Assembles the "Edit at SDC" pen icon and returns it as wikitext string.
-- Dependencies: Data:I18n/EditAt.tab
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function core.editAtSDC(propertyID, lang)
	local msg  = core.formatMessage('I18n/EditAt.tab', 'EditAtSDC', lang)
	local link =  mw.title.getCurrentTitle():fullUrl() .. (propertyID == "" and "" or ("#" .. propertyID))
	return " [[File:OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg |frameless |text-top |10px |alt="..msg.."|link="..link.."|"..msg.."]]"
end

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function core.getLabel(id, userLang) 
-- code equivalent to require("Module:Wikidata label")._getLabel
	local label, link
	-- build language fallback list
	local langList = mw.language.getFallbacksFor(userLang)
	table.insert(langList, 1, userLang)
	for _, lang in ipairs(langList) do  -- loop over language fallback list looking for label in the specific language
		label = mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang(id, lang)
		if label then break end                    -- label found and we are done
	end	
	for _, lang in ipairs(langList) do  -- loop over language fallback list looking for label in the specific language
		link =  mw.wikibase.getSitelink(id, lang .. 'wiki')
		if link then
			link = mw.ustring.format('w:%s:%s', lang, link)
			break
		end
	end	
	link  = link  or ('d:'..id)
	label = label or id
    return '[['..link..'|'..label..']]'
end

return core