Module:JSON data

The following documentation is located at Module:JSON data/documentation.

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This module is intended to be used by bots or other automation tools which need to access Wiktionary data. This is not a general-purpose JSON serialisation module. Using one would be impractical, as experiments have shown that using one on the language data easily hits execution limits.

Bots may access the data by using mw:API:Expandtemplates or requesting the raw source of a page invoking this module with a &templates=expand query parameter.

Make sure you only load this module once (or twice, if you need both the languages table and another table). Generating the JSON data takes a few seconds and puts a relatively high strain on the servers.

Available functions are: export_languages, export_scripts and export_families, which generate the JSON equivalents of Module:languages, Module:scripts and Module:families respectively. The structure of the data corresponds exactly to the one used in Wiktionary modules, with a caveat below.

When export_languages is given positional arguments:

The first specifies the types of languages (see Template:language data documentation) that will be listed in the data. The special values TWO_LETTER, TWO_THREE_LETTER and TWO_THREE_LETTER_REGULAR can be passed. For example, invoking the function with TWO_LETTER, 1 and 4 as arguments will export the canonical names and script codes for languages with two-letter codes.
The following arguments list data keys which will be exported. To conserve space, if only one key is specified, its value is listed directly in the root object (indexed by language codes).

Examples:

{{#invoke:JSON data|export_languages||ancestors|3}}

This will return the ancestors and language family for every language. (See Template:language data documentation for an explanation of numbers 1 to 4.)

{{#invoke:JSON data|export_languages|TWO_LETTER}}

This will return all available info for two-letter language codes. (Note, this is currently broken and returns a Lua error.)

local export = {}

-- optimisation: local variable lookup is slightly faster than global lookup
local tab_concat, type, tostring, pairs, ipairs = table.concat, type, tostring, pairs, ipairs

local function export_str(s)
	-- rudimentary escaping, to save time
	return '"' .. tostring(s):gsub('', '\\%0') .. '"'
end

local function export_array(tab)
	local items = {}
	for key, value in ipairs(tab) do
		if type(value) == 'string' then
			items = export_str(value)
		elseif type(value) == 'boolean' or type(value) == 'number' then
			items = tostring(value)
		else
			error("serialisation failed: unsupported array element type '" .. type(value) .. "'")
		end
	end
	return ""
end

-- the second argument is a rudimentary "schema" which specifies
-- whether a table value at a given key should be serialised
-- as an array or an object; Lua uses the same table type for both
local function export_object(tab, schema)
	local items = {}
	if tab == nil then
		return "null"	
	end
	
	for key, value in pairs(tab) do
		if type(value) == 'string' then
			items = export_str(key) .. ':' .. export_str(value)
		elseif type(value) == 'boolean' or type(value) == 'number' then
			items = export_str(key) .. ':' .. tostring(value)
		elseif type(value) == 'table' then
			if not schema then
				error("no schema given for array with table values, key '" .. key .. "'")
			end
			local ktype = {}
			if type(schema) == 'table' then
				ktype = schema
			end
			-- false indicates array, true indicates un-schematised object
			if ktype == false then
				items = export_str(key) .. ':' .. export_array(value)
			else
				items = export_str(key) .. ':' .. export_object(value, ktype)
			end
		else
			error("serialisation failed: unsupported object value type '" .. type(value) .. "'")
		end	
	end
	return "{" .. tab_concat(items, ",") .. "}"
end

function export.export_languages(item_filter, key_filter, skip_nulls)
	if type(item_filter) == "table" then
		key_filter = {}
		local i = 2
		while item_filter.args do
			if tonumber(item_filter.args) ~= nil then
				key_filter = tonumber(item_filter.args)
			else
				key_filter = item_filter.args
			end
			i = i + 1
		end
		if #key_filter == 0 then
			key_filter = nil
		end
		skip_nulls = require('Module:yesno')(item_filter.args.nulls)
		item_filter = item_filter.args
	end

	item_filter = (item_filter ~= "") and item_filter or function() return true end
	if type(item_filter) == 'string' then
		if item_filter == "TWO_LETTER" then
			function item_filter(key, value)
				return #key == 2
			end
		elseif item_filter == "TWO_THREE_LETTER" then
			function item_filter(key, value)
				return #key <= 3
			end
		elseif item_filter == "TWO_THREE_LETTER_REGULAR" then
			function item_filter(key, value)
				return (#key <= 3) and value.type == 'regular'
			end
		elseif item_filter:sub(1, 1) == '=' then
			local list = {}
			for item in mw.text.gsplit(item_filter:sub(2), ',') do
				list = true
			end
			function item_filter(key, value)
				return list
			end
		else
			local t = item_filter
			function item_filter(key, value)
				return value.type == t
			end
		end
	end

	local data = mw.loadData("Module:languages/data/all")
	local items = {}

	-- false indicates array, true indicates un-schematised object (just dump raw)
	local schema = {
		canonicalName = false,
		type = false,
		scripts = false,
		family = false,
		otherNames = false,
		ancestors = false,
		wikimedia_codes = false,
		aliases = false,
		varieties = false,
		sort_key = true,
		entry_name = true
	}
	
	for key, value in pairs(data) do
		if item_filter(key, value) then
			if key_filter then
				if #key_filter == 1 then
					local item = value]
					local itsc = schema]
						
					if item == nil then
						if not skip_nulls then
							items = export_str(key) .. ':null'
						end
					else 
						items = export_str(key) .. ':' .. 
							((type(item) == "string" and export_str(item))
							or (itsc == false and export_array(item))
							or export_object(item, true))
					end
				else
					local langobj = {}
					for _, fkey in pairs(key_filter) do
						langobj = value
					end
					items = export_str(key) .. ':' .. export_object(langobj, schema)
				end
			else
				items = export_str(key) .. ':' .. export_object(value, schema)
			end			
		end
	end

	return "{" .. tab_concat(items, ",") .. "}"
end

function export.export_scripts()
	local data = mw.loadData("Module:scripts/data")
	
	local items = {}
	
	for key, value in pairs(data) do
		items = export_str(key) .. ':' .. export_object(value, {
			canonicalName = false,
			characters = false,
			systems = false,
			otherNames = false,
			aliases = false,
			varieties = false
		})
	end

	return "{" .. tab_concat(items, ",") .. "}"
end

function export.export_etymology_languages()
	local data = mw.loadData("Module:etymology languages/data")
	
	local items = {}
	
	for key, value in pairs(data) do
		items = export_str(key) .. ':' .. export_object(value, {
			canonicalName = false,
			parent = false,
			wikipedia_article = false,
			otherNames = false,
			ancestors = false,
			aliases = false,
			entry_name = false
		})
	end

	return "{" .. tab_concat(items, ",") .. "}"
end

function export.export_families()
	local data = mw.loadData("Module:families/data")

	local items = {}
	
	for key, value in pairs(data) do
		items = export_str(key) .. ':' .. export_object(value, {
			canonicalName = false,
			otherNames = false,
			family = false,
			aliases = false,
			varieties = false
		})
	end

	return "{" .. tab_concat(items, ",") .. "}"
end

function export.export_labels()
	local data = mw.loadData("Module:labels/data")

	local labels = {}
	
	for key, value in pairs(data.labels) do
		if type(value) == "string" then
			labels = export_str(key) .. ':' .. export_str(value)
		else
			labels = export_str(key) .. ':' .. export_object(value, {
				plain_categories = false,
				topical_categories = false,
				pos_categories = false,
				regional_categories = false
			})
		end
	end

	return "{" .. tab_concat(labels, ',') .. "}"
end

function export.export_wgs()
	local m_wgdata = mw.loadData('Module:workgroup ping/data')
	local items = {}

	for key, value in pairs(m_wgdata) do
		if type(value) == 'string' then
			items = export_str(key) .. ':' .. export_str(value)
		else
			local item = { desc = value.desc; category = value.category; members = {} }
			
			for _, user in ipairs(value) do
				item.members = user
			end
			
			items = export_str(key) .. ':' .. export_object(item, {
				members = false
			})
		end
	end
	
	return "{" .. tab_concat(items, ",") .. "}"
end

-- replacement for using the ] to do ]
-- TODO: limits?
function export.complete_langname(frame)
	local m_langs = mw.loadData("Module:languages/data/all")
	local target = frame.args

	local items = {}
	for code, data in pairs(m_langs) do
		for _, name in ipairs(data.names) do
			if name:sub(1, #target) == target then
				items = export_str(name) .. ":" .. export_str(code)
			end
		end
	end
	
	return "{" .. tab_concat(items, ",") .. "}"
end

return export

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