Module:Hatnote list

-- For see -- -- Makes a "For X, see Y." list from raw parameters. Intended for the -- and  templates and their variants. Also incidentally -- introduces andList & orList helpers, useful for other hatnote lists.

local mArguments --initialize lazily local mHatnote = require('Module:Hatnote') local libraryUtil = require('libraryUtil') local checkType = libraryUtil.checkType local p = {}

function p.andList (andTable) -- Stringifies a list with "and" local andString = (#andTable > 2 and mw.text.listToText(andTable, nil, ', and ')) or		mw.text.listToText(andTable) return andString end

function p.orList (orTable) -- Stringifies a list with "or" local orString = (#andTable > 2 and mw.text.listToText(andTable, nil, ', or ')) or		mw.text.listToText(andTable, nil, ' or ') return orString end

function p.forSee (frame, from, options) -- Calls _forSee but pulls from the frame. mArguments = require('Module:Arguments') getArgs = mArguments.getArgs

local args = getArgs(frame) return p._forSee(args, from, options) end

function p._forSee (args, from, options) -- Produces a "For X, see Y" string from arguments. Expects index gaps -- but not blank or whitespace values; those should be filtered. Ignores -- arguments less than "from", and named arguments.

-- Type-checks and defaults checkType("_forSee", 1, args, 'table') checkType("_forSee", 2, from, 'number', true) from = from or 1 checkType("_forSee", 3, options, 'table', true) options = options or {} local defaultOptions = { title = mw.title.getCurrentTitle.text, disambiguator = ' (disambiguation)', otherText = 'other uses' }	for k, v in pairs(defaultOptions) do		if options[k] == nil then options[k] = v end end

-- maxArg's gotten manually because getArgs and table.maxn aren't friends local maxArg = 0 for k, v in pairs(args) do		if type(k) == 'number' and k > maxArg then maxArg = k end end

-- Structure the data out from the parameter list -- forTable is the wrapper table, with forRow rows -- Each row's a table with one "use" string and one "see" table local forTable = {} local i = from local terminated = false -- Repeat to generate and append each row repeat -- New empty row local forRow = {} -- If there's a blank use, assume the list's ended, use the default, -- and break at the end of this loop-through. forRow.use = args[i] or options.otherText if not args[i] then terminated = true end -- New empty list of pages forRow.see = {} -- If there's not at least one page listed, assume the list's ended, use -- the default, and break at end of this loop-through. table.insert(forRow.see, args[i + 1] or (options.title .. options.disambiguator)) if not args[i + 1] then terminated = true end -- If the option after next is "and", do an inner loop where we collect -- items following "and"'s until the "and"'s stop. If there's a blank -- where we'd expect an item, ignore it: "1|and||and|3" → {1, 3} while args[i + 2] == 'and' do			if args[i + 3] then table.insert(forRow.see, args[i + 3]) end -- Increment to the next "and" i = i + 2 end -- Increment to the next use i = i + 2 -- Add the row to the table table.insert(forTable, forRow) until terminated or i > maxArg

-- Stringify the table, which is easy because it's structured now local strList = {} for k, v in pairs(forTable) do		local useStr = v.use local seeStr = p.andList(mHatnote.formatPages(unpack(v.see))) table.insert(strList, string.format('For %s, see %s.', useStr, seeStr)) end return mw.text.listToText(strList, ' ', ' ') end

return p