Module:Check for unknown parameters explained

-- This module may be used to compare the arguments passed to the parent-- with a list of arguments, returning a specified result if an argument is-- not on the listlocal p =

local function trim(s) return s:match('^%s*(.-)%s*$')end

local function isnotempty(s) return s and s:match('%S')end

local function clean(text) -- Return text cleaned for display and truncated if too long. -- Strip markers are replaced with dummy text representing the original wikitext. local pos, truncated local function truncate(text) if truncated then return end if mw.ustring.len(text) > 25 then truncated = true text = mw.ustring.sub(text, 1, 25) .. '...' end return mw.text.nowiki(text) end local parts = for before, tag, remainder in text:gmatch('([^\127]*)\127[^\127]*%-(%l+)%-[^\127]*\127') do pos = remainder table.insert(parts, truncate(before) .. '<' .. tag .. '>...</' .. tag .. '>') end table.insert(parts, truncate(text:sub(pos or 1))) return table.concat(parts)end

function p._check(args, pargs) if type(args) ~= "table" or type(pargs) ~= "table" then -- TODO: error handling return end

-- create the list of known args, regular expressions, and the return string local knownargs = local regexps = for k, v in pairs(args) do if type(k)

'number' then v = trim(v) knownargs[v] = 1 elseif k:find('^regexp[1-9][0-9]*$') then table.insert(regexps, '^' .. v .. '$') end end

-- loop over the parent args, and make sure they are on the list local ignoreblank = isnotempty(args['ignoreblank']) local showblankpos = isnotempty(args['showblankpositional']) local values = for k, v in pairs(pargs) do if type(k)

'string' and knownargs[k]

nil then local knownflag = false for _, regexp in ipairs(regexps) do if mw.ustring.match(k, regexp) then knownflag = true break end end if not knownflag and (not ignoreblank or isnotempty(v)) then table.insert(values, clean(k)) end elseif type(k)

'number' and knownargs[tostring(k)]

nil then local knownflag = false for _, regexp in ipairs(regexps) do if mw.ustring.match(tostring(k), regexp) then knownflag = true break end end if not knownflag and (showblankpos or isnotempty(v)) then table.insert(values, k .. ' = ' .. clean(v)) end end end

-- add results to the output tables local res = if #values > 0 then local unknown_text = args['unknown'] or 'Found _VALUE_, '

if mw.getCurrentFrame:preprocess("")

"" then local preview_text = args['preview'] if isnotempty(preview_text) then preview_text = require('Module:If preview')._warning elseif preview

nil then preview_text = unknown_text end unknown_text = preview_text end for _, v in pairs(values) do -- Fix odd bug for | = which gets stripped to the empty string and -- breaks category links if v

then v = ' ' end

-- avoid error with v = 'example%2' ("invalid capture index") local r = unknown_text:gsub('_VALUE_',) table.insert(res, r) end end

return table.concat(res)end

function p.check(frame) local args = frame.args local pargs = frame:getParent.args return p._check(args, pargs)end

return p