-- This module implements
local mHatnote = require('Module:Hatnote')
local p =
local function makeWikitextError(msg) return string.format('Error: %s ', msg )end
-- Gets the length of the sequence seq. Usually this should be done with the #-- operator, but we need to work with tables that get their values through an-- __index metamethod.local function getSequenceLength(seq) local length = 0 for i in ipairs(seq) do length = i end return lengthend
-- Given a table of options, returns a function that formats categories for-- those options.---- Options:-- project - a project code such as "fr" (for the French Wikipedia)-- showPrefix - a boolean value for whether to show the "Category:" prefix-- (and the project prefix if specified)---- This is implemented as a function generator rather than a simple function-- so that we can just process the options once, instead of every time we-- generate a category.local function newCategoryLinker(options) local formatString if options.project then if options.showPrefix then formatString = '' else formatString = '%s' end else if options.showPrefix then formatString = '' else formatString = '%s' end end return function (category) local title = mw.title.new(category) local pageName, display if not title then -- category is not a valid title, usually because of invalid -- characters like < or [. Raise an error and suppress the stack -- level information so that we can catch it and format the error -- message as wikitext. error(string.format("'%s' is not a valid category name", category ), 0) elseif title.namespace == 14 then -- Category namespace pageName = title.text display = title.text else pageName = title.prefixedText display = category end -- We can get away with using two arguments even when -- options.showDisplay is false, as string.format ignores extra -- arguments as long as there is an argument for each flag in the -- format string. return formatString:format(pageName, display) end end function p._main(args) local nLinks = getSequenceLength(args) if nLinks < 1 then return makeWikitextError('at least one parameter required') end local makeCategoryLink = newCategoryLinker{ project = args.project, showPrefix = nLinks == 1, } local links = {} for i, cat in ipairs(args) do local success, categoryLink = pcall(makeCategoryLink, cat) if success then links[i] = categoryLink else -- If there was an error, then categoryLink is the error message. return makeWikitextError(categoryLink) end end
local formatString if nLinks
-- Don't output a comma before the "and" if we have only two links. local conjunction if nLinks
local hatnoteText = formatString:format(args.LABEL or 'See also', mw.text.listToText(links, ', ', conjunction) ) return mHatnote._hatnote(hatnoteText,)end
function p.main(frame) local args = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs(frame,) return p._main(args)end
return p