Module:TrainingPages
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This module is intended to accept the name of a page (defaulting to the page currently being displayed), look it up in an index of pages, step forward or backward by some number of pages (usually 1), and give back the name of the page at that position.
Use {{#invoke:TrainingPages|function|parameters}}
to invoke. For example:
{{#invoke:TrainingPages|last_page|index=Wikipedia:Training/For students/Editing module index|page=Wikipedia:Training/For students/Where to get help|defaultpage=Wikipedia:Training/header}}
yields:
Wikipedia:Training/For students/Discussion
Functions
The available functions are:
- next_page: the next page on the index list
- last_page: the preceding page on the index list
- page_number: the number the page indicated is in the list
- total_pages: the total number of pages in the index
- main: allows you to flip forward or backward an arbitrary number of pages
Parameters
(All parameters are available to every function, except displacement which only matters for main)
- page is the page you are starting from (the one you're looking up in the index)
- if page is blank or omitted, the mw.title.getCurrentTitle() function is used to locate the current page. (So far as I know, this is always the page that matters, the one everything ultimately gets transcluded to, not the template or module)
- if page is a number and doesn't contain any text, the page that number of positions down in the index will be the base page used. With "main" and no displacement set, this returns the name of page#N. Otherwise you can have it return some number of pages off from that number, or the default page, as it would if the name of the page in that position had been entered as text.
- defaultpage is the page to be returned if there is no next page, previous page, or page displaced by n in the index. Can be blank, in which case the module output will be blank if this happens.
- index is the name of the index module with the list of all the pages. The pages should be in a list from beginning to end. There are three ways to format this:
- Index can be in module space (e.g. Module:TrainingPages/default index) in which case they must consist of return {'Name of first page','Name of second page','Name of third page' ... etc.}.
- Index can be in some other space, not in module format, in which case it need merely contain a list of Wikilinks in double square brackets. Everything outside the brackets is ignored, and every link in double square brackets is counted. The only limitation is that in this version anything in double square brackets is taken as a link, even if nowiki applies or it is in other brackets or has a newline in it or something that prevents it from appearing as a proper link. You can put a pair of nowiki or noninclude tags between the two opening square brackets as a kludge to avoid having this happen, if need be.
- (If omitted, the index still defaults to Module:TrainingPages/default index, so common tasks might be added to it. However, no provision has been made to prevent from paging from one set into another, so unless this only sees use in one consistent overall set of trainingpages that is a bad idea unless upgraded.)
- displacement specifies how many pages to go forward or back in the main module.
- noerr suppresses error messages if the index file can't be found; an empty string is returned.
- anonymize - any nonblank value causes project specific pages (Wikipedia:) to be returned as Project:
--The purpose of this module is to take a list of linked page, and use it to determine the next and previous page in the list as well as the total number of pages.
local p = {}
function anonymize(name)
return mw.ustring.gsub(name,"^"..mw.site.siteName,"Project") or name
end
function out(name)
return mw.ustring.gsub(name,"^Project",mw.site.siteName) or name
end
function keyize(pagename)
-- there was a complaint about "_" breaking things. Do all lookups with _ in place of any space.
-- also spaces in the index file (non-module) were causing trouble
pagename = mw.text.trim(pagename)
pagename = mw.ustring.gsub(pagename, " ", "_")
pagename = mw.uri.decode(pagename)
pagename = anonymize(pagename)
return pagename
end
function p.main(frame,displacement,varstoreturn)
local parent=frame.getParent(frame)
local currentpage,indexmodule,defaultpage,noerr
---- args in the #invoke itself trump args in the parent frame
currentpage = frame.args.page and mw.text.trim(frame.args.page)
defaultpage = frame.args.defaultpage and mw.text.trim(frame.args.defaultpage)
indexmodule = frame.args.index and mw.text.trim(frame.args.index)
displacement = displacement or frame.args.displacement -- can be passed from the other function names at the end
noerr=frame.args.noerr -- used as boolean
anonymizereturn = frame.args.anonymize -- used as boolean
---- args in the parent frame come next
if parent then
currentpage=currentpage or (parent.args.page and mw.text.trim(parent.args.page))
indexmodule=indexmodule or (parent.args.index and mw.text.trim(parent.args.index)) -- index is a module return{'page1','page2', ...}
defaultpage=defaultpage or (parent.args.defaultpage and mw.text.trim(parent.args.defaultpage))
noerr=noerr or parent.args.noerr
anonymizereturn = anonymizereturn or parent.args.anonymize
end
---- default values if parameters aren't provided
defaultpage=defaultpage or "" -- don't know where to send people by default
if not(indexmodule) then
return "[[Module:TrainingPages]] error:no index parameter specified"
end
if not(currentpage) then
local pp=mw.title.getCurrentTitle()
if not pp then
if noerr then
return "","",""
else return "[[Module:TrainingPages]] error:failed to access getCurrentTitle" -- this shouldn't happen anyway, I don't think....
end
end
currentpage=pp.fullText
end
currentpage=anonymize(currentpage) --- convert "Wikipedia:, "Meta:" etc. into "Project:
local index={}
if mw.ustring.sub(indexmodule,1,6)=="Module" then
---- get a table of the pages in order from indexmodule
index=mw.loadData(indexmodule)
else pp=mw.title.new(indexmodule)
if not pp then
if noerr then
return "","",""
else return "[[Module:TrainingPages]] error (''index'' parameter): failed to access mw.title.new("..tostring(indexmodule)..") to load the index file",false,false,true
end
end
local textindex=pp.getContent(pp)
if not textindex then
if noerr then
return "","",""
else return "[[Module:TrainingPages]] error (''index'' parameter):failed to access mw.title.new("..indexmodule.."):getContent() to load the index data",false,false,true
end
end
prowl=mw.ustring.gmatch(textindex,"%[%[(.-)[%]|]") -- first half of any wikilink
index={}
repeat
link=prowl()
if not(link) then break end
link = mw.text.trim(link)
if link~="" then table.insert(index,link) end
until false
end
displacement = displacement or 0 -- assume a null parameter is just display the same
---- set up the reverse lookup in lookup.
---- it would be faster to set this up in the indexmodule
---- but we don't want inconsistencies from user input!
local lookup={}
local i=0
repeat
i=i+1
local j=index[i]
if j then lookup[keyize(j)]=i else break end -- lookup["page name"] => page number
until false
--- get the page to return
local returnpage,currentpagenumber
if tonumber(currentpage) then
currentpagenumber=tonumber(currentpage)
returnpage=index[currentpagenumber+displacement] or defaultpage
elseif (lookup[keyize(currentpage)]) then
currentpagenumber=lookup[keyize(currentpage)]
returnpage=index[currentpagenumber+displacement] or defaultpage
else returnpage=defaultpage
end
if anonymizereturn then
returnpage=anonymize(returnpage)
else
returnpage=out(returnpage)
end
if returnpage then returnpage = mw.text.trim(returnpage) end
if not(varstoreturn) then return tostring(returnpage) else return tostring(returnpage),currentpagenumber,#index end
end
-- Return the next page in the index
-- Used like if on a page that is part of the index:
--{{#invoke:TrainingPages| next_page | index=Project:Training/For students/Editing module index }}
-- Used like this to find the next page after a specified page:
--{{#invoke:TrainingPages| next_page | index=Project:Training/For students/Editing module index | currentpage=Project:Training/For students/My sandbox }}
function p.next_page(frame)
local returnpage,pagenumber,totalpages,errcode=p.main(frame,1,true)
return returnpage
end
p.next = p.next_page
-- Same as above, but returns the previous page
function p.last_page(frame)
local returnpage,pagenumber,totalpages,errcode=p.main(frame,-1,true)
return returnpage
end
p.last = p.last_page
function p.page_number(frame)
local returnpage,pagenumber,totalpages,errcode=p.main(frame,0,true)
if errcode then return returnpage else return pagenumber end
end
p.page = p.page_number
function p.total_pages(frame)
local returnpage,pagenumber,totalpages,errcode=p.main(frame,0,true)
if errcode then return returnpage else return totalpages end
end
p.total = p.total_pages
return p