Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/Latvian declension explained

-- This module generates templates for dealing with Latvian declensions.

local libraryUtil = require('libraryUtil')

local DATA_PAGE_PREFIX = mw.getCurrentFrame:getTitle .. '/'local NO_RESULT = 'Invalid'

local function main(dataPage, code, declen) -- Get the data page first, as we want a big red error message if the data -- page is bad. libraryUtil.checkType('main', 1, dataPage, 'string') local data = mw.loadData(DATA_PAGE_PREFIX .. dataPage)

-- Check argument types and do preprocessing. if type(code)

'string' then if tonumber(code) then code = tonumber(code) else code = mw.ustring.lower(code) end elseif type(code) ~= 'number' then return NO_RESULT end if type(declen) ~= 'string' then return NO_RESULT end

-- Get the data. local termData = data[code] if termData

nil then return NO_RESULT elseif type(termData) ~= 'table' then error(string.format("the data page '%s' contains malformatted data for code '%s'", dataPage, tostring(code) ), 2) end if declen

'Ģ' or declen

'ģ' then -- Normalize declension string without using mw.ustring, which can be -- slow. declen = 'g' else declen = string.lower(declen) end return termData[declen] or NO_RESULTend

return setmetatable(

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