This module exports various general utility functions, which can be used by other modules.
function export.safe_require(modname)
Like require, but returns nil if a module does not exist, instead of throwing an error. Outputs are cached, which is faster for all module types, but much faster for nonexistent modules since require will attempt to use the full loader each time (since they don't get cached in package.loaded
).
function export.dec_to_hex(dec)
Convert decimal to hexadecimal.
Note
: About three times as fast as the hex library.
function export.get_plaintext(text)
A helper function to strip wiki markup, giving the plaintext of what is displayed on the page.
function export.format_categories(categories, lang, sort_key, sort_base, force_output, sc)
Format the categories with the appropriate sort key.
categories
is a list of categories. Each entry in the list can be either a string (the full category, minus the "Category:"
prefix) or an object. In the latter case, the object should have fields
cat
: the full category, minus the "Category:"
prefix (required);lang
: optional language object to override the overall lang
;sort_key
: optional sort key to override the overall sort_key
;sort_base
: optional sort base to override the overall sort_base
;sc
: optional script object to override the overall sc
.lang
is an object encapsulating a language; if nil
, the object for language code "und"
(undetermined) will be used. lang
is used when computing the sort key (either from the subpage name or sort base).sort_key
is placed in the category invocation, and indicates how the page will sort in the respective category. Normally do not use this. Instead, leave it nil
, and if you need to a control the sort order, use sort_base
, so that language-specific normalization is applied on top of the specified sort base. If neither sort_key
nor sort_base
is specified, the default is to apply language-specific normalization to the subpage name; see below.sort_base
lets you override the default sort key while still maintaining appropriate language-specific normalization. If nil
is specified, this defaults to the subpage name, which is the portion of the full pagename after subtracting the namespace prefix (and, in certain namespaces such as User:
, but notably not in the mainspace, after subtracting anything up through the final slash). The actual sort key is derived from the sort base approximately by lowercasing, applying language-specific normalization and then uppercasing; note that the same process is applied in deriving the sort key when no sort base is specified. For example, for French, Spanish, etc. the normalization process maps accented letters to their unaccented equivalents, so that e.g. in French, ça sorts after ca (instead of after the default Wikimedia sort order, which is approximately based on Unicode sort order and places ç after z) and côté sorts after coté (instead of between c and d). Similarly, in Russian the normalization process converts Cyrillic ё to a string consisting of Cyrillic е followed by U+10FFFF, so that effectively ё sorts after е instead of the default Wikimedia sort, which (I think) puts ё after я, the last letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.force_output
forces normal output in all namespaces. Normally, nothing is output if the page isn't in the main, Appendix:, Thesaurus:, Reconstruction: or Citations: namespaces.sc
is a script object; if nil, the default will be derived from the sort base (or its default value, the subpage name) by calling lang:findBestScript()
. The value of sc
is used during the sort base normalization process; for example, languages with multiple scripts will often have script-specific normalization processes.function export.catfix(lang, sc)
Add a "catfix", which is used on language-specific category pages to add language attributes and often script classes to all entry names. The addition of language attributes and script classes makes the entry names display better (using the language- or script-specific styles specified in MediaWiki:Common.css), which is particularly important for non-English languages that do not have consistent font support in browsers.
Language attributes are added for all languages, but script classes are only added for languages with one script listed in their data file, or for languages that have a default script listed in the catfix_script
list in Module:utilities/data. Some languages clearly have a default script, but still have other scripts listed in their data file and therefore need their default script to be specified. Others do not have a default script.
Cyrl
), but Braille (Brai
) is also listed in its data file. So Russian needs an entry in the catfix_script
list, so that the Cyrl
(Cyrillic) script class will be applied to entries in its category pages.To find the scripts listed for a language, go to Module:languages and use the search box to find the data file for the language. To find out what a script code means, search the script code in Module:scripts/data.
function export.check_object(typ, noErr, ...)
Given a type (as a string) and an arbitrary number of entities, checks whether all of those entities are language, family, script, writing system or Wikimedia language objects. Useful for error handling in functions that require one of these kinds of object.
If noErr
is set, the function returns false instead of throwing an error, which allows customised error handling to be done in the calling function.
local export = {}
local headword_data_module = "Module:headword/data"
local languages_module = "Module:languages"
local links_module = "Module:links"
local script_utilities_module = "Module:script utilities"
local scripts_module = "Module:scripts"
local string_utilities_module = "Module:string utilities"
local utilities_data_module = "Module:utilities/data"
local mw = mw
local package = package
local table = table
local anchor_encode = mw.uri.anchorEncode
local concat = table.concat
local format = string.format
local ipairs = ipairs
local load_data = mw.loadData
local require = require
local tonumber = tonumber
local type = type
local unstrip = mw.text.unstrip
--[==[
Loaders for functions in other modules, which overwrite themselves with the target function when called. This ensures modules are only loaded when needed, retains the speed/convenience of locally-declared pre-loaded functions, and has no overhead after the first call, since the target functions are called directly in any subsequent calls.]==]
local function decode_entities(...)
decode_entities = require(string_utilities_module).decode_entities
return decode_entities(...)
end
local function get_lang(...)
get_lang = require(languages_module).getByCode
return get_lang(...)
end
local function get_script(...)
get_script = require(scripts_module).getByCode
return get_script(...)
end
local function remove_links(...)
remove_links = require(links_module).remove_links
return remove_links(...)
end
local function tag_text(...)
tag_text = require(script_utilities_module).tag_text
return tag_text(...)
end
local function trim(...)
trim = require(string_utilities_module).trim
return trim(...)
end
local function uupper(...)
uupper = require(string_utilities_module).upper
return uupper(...)
end
--[==[
Loaders for objects, which load data (or some other object) into some variable, which can then be accessed as "foo or get_foo()", where the function get_foo sets the object to "foo" and then returns it. This ensures they are only loaded when needed, and avoids the need to check for the existence of the object each time, since once "foo" has been set, "get_foo" will not be called again.]==]
local catfix_scripts
local function get_catfix_scripts()
catfix_scripts, get_catfix_scripts = load_data(utilities_data_module).catfix_scripts, nil
return catfix_scripts
end
local current_title
local function get_current_title()
current_title, get_current_title = mw.title.getCurrentTitle(), nil
return current_title
end
local defaultsort
local function get_defaultsort()
defaultsort, get_defaultsort = load_data(headword_data_module).page.pagename_defaultsort, nil
return defaultsort
end
local pagename
local function get_pagename()
pagename, get_pagename = load_data(headword_data_module).page.encoded_pagename, nil
return pagename
end
do
local loaded = package.loaded
local loader = package.loaders
local not_found
--[==[
Like require, but returns nil if a module does not exist, instead of throwing an error.
Outputs are cached, which is faster for all module types, but much faster for nonexistent modules since require will attempt to use the full loader each time (since they don't get cached in {package.loaded}).]==]
function export.safe_require(modname)
local mod = loaded
if mod ~= nil then
return mod
elseif not (not_found and not_found) then
-- The loader returns a function if the module exists, or nil if it doesn't, and checking this is faster than using pcall with require. If found, we still use require instead of loading and caching directly, because we still want the safety check against infinite loading loops and in-module errors to be thrown.
if loader(modname) then
return require(modname)
elseif not not_found then
not_found = {modname = true}
else
not_found = true
end
end
return nil
end
end
--[==[
Convert decimal to hexadecimal.
Note: About three times as fast as the hex library.]==]
function export.dec_to_hex(dec)
dec = tonumber(dec)
if dec == nil or dec % 1 ~= 0 then
error("Input should be a decimal integer.")
end
return format("%X", dec)
end
do
local function handle_url(capture)
return capture:match("https?://]+%s(]+)") or ""
end
--[==[
A helper function to strip wiki markup, giving the plaintext of what is displayed on the page.]==]
function export.get_plaintext(text)
text = text
:gsub("%[%[", "\1")
:gsub("%]%]", "\2")
-- Remove strip markers and HTML tags.
text = unstrip(text):gsub("<+>", "")
-- Parse internal links for the display text, and remove categories.
text = remove_links(text)
-- Remove files.
text = text:gsub("\1:+\2", "")
:gsub("\1:+\2", "")
-- Parse external links for the display text.
text = text:gsub("%]+)%]", handle_url)
-- Any remaining square brackets aren't involved in links, but must be escaped to avoid creating new links.
:gsub("\1", "[[")
:gsub("\2", "]]")
:gsub("%[", "[")
:gsub("]", "]")
-- Strip bold, italics and soft hyphens.
:gsub("('*)'''(.-'*)'''", "%1%2")
:gsub("('*)''(.-'*)''", "%1%2")
:gsub("", "")
-- Get any HTML entities and trim.
-- Note: don't decode URL percent encoding, as it shouldn't be used in display text and may cause problems if % is used.
return trim(decode_entities(text))
end
end
--[==[
Format the categories with the appropriate sort key.
* `categories` is a list of categories. Each entry in the list can be either a string (the full category, minus
the {"Category:"} prefix) or an object. In the latter case, the object should have fields
** `cat`: the full category, minus the {"Category:"} prefix (required);
** `lang`: optional language object to override the overall `lang`;
** `sort_key`: optional sort key to override the overall `sort_key`;
** `sort_base`: optional sort base to override the overall `sort_base`;
** `sc`: optional script object to override the overall `sc`.
* `lang` is an object encapsulating a language; if {nil}, the object for language code {"und"} (undetermined) will
be used. `lang` is used when computing the sort key (either from the subpage name or sort base).
* `sort_key` is placed in the category invocation, and indicates how the page will sort in the respective category.
Normally '''do not use this'''. Instead, leave it {nil}, and if you need to a control the sort order, use
{sort_base}, so that language-specific normalization is applied on top of the specified sort base. If neither
{sort_key} nor {sort_base} is specified, the default is to apply language-specific normalization to the subpage
name; see below.
* `sort_base` lets you override the default sort key while still maintaining appropriate language-specific
normalization. If {nil} is specified, this defaults to the subpage name, which is the portion of the full pagename
after subtracting the namespace prefix (and, in certain namespaces such as {User:}, but notably not in the
mainspace, after subtracting anything up through the final slash). The actual sort key is derived from the sort
base approximately by lowercasing, applying language-specific normalization and then uppercasing; note that the
same process is applied in deriving the sort key when no sort base is specified. For example, for French, Spanish,
etc. the normalization process maps accented letters to their unaccented equivalents, so that e.g. in French,
{{m|fr|ça}} sorts after {{m|fr|ca}} (instead of after the default Wikimedia sort order, which is approximately
based on Unicode sort order and places ç after z) and {{m|fr|côté}} sorts after {{m|fr|coté}} (instead of between
c and d). Similarly, in Russian the normalization process converts Cyrillic ё to a string consisting of Cyrillic е
followed by U+10FFFF, so that effectively ё sorts after е instead of the default Wikimedia sort, which (I think)
puts ё after я, the last letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.
* `force_output` forces normal output in all namespaces. Normally, nothing is output if the page isn't in the main,
Appendix:, Thesaurus:, Reconstruction: or Citations: namespaces.
* `sc` is a script object; if nil, the default will be derived from the sort base (or its default value, the
subpage name) by calling {lang:findBestScript()}. The value of `sc` is used during the sort base normalization
process; for example, languages with multiple scripts will often have script-specific normalization processes.]==]
function export.format_categories(categories, lang, sort_key, sort_base, force_output, sc)
if type(lang) == "table" and not lang.getCode then
error("The second argument to format_categories should be a language object.")
end
if not force_output then
local ns = (current_title or get_current_title()).namespace
if not (
-- Allowed namespaces: (main), Appendix, Thesaurus, Citations, Reconstruction.
ns == 0 or ns == 100 or ns == 110 or ns == 114 or ns == 118 or
current_title.prefixedText == "Wiktionary:Sandbox"
) then
return ""
end
end
local current, ret, i, n, default, extra = categories, {}, 0, 0
-- Iterate over all categories in `categories`, then any in `extra` (which might not get created at all).
while true do
i = i + 1
local cat = current
if cat == nil then
-- If `current` is `categories`, now iterate over anything in `extra`. Otherwise, return.
if not (current == categories and extra) then
return concat(ret)
end
current, i = extra, 0
else
-- If the category type is a table, use any custom options in it.
local cat_type, cat_lang, cat_sort_key, cat_sort_base, cat_sc, this_sort_key = type(cat)
if cat_type == "table" then
cat_lang = cat.lang or lang
cat_sort_key = cat.sort_key or sort_key
cat_sort_base = cat.sort_base or sort_base
cat_sc = cat.sc or sc
cat = cat.cat
-- If `default` has already been determined, use it.
elseif default then
this_sort_key = default
-- Otherwise, calculate `default` and use it.
else
cat_lang = lang
cat_sort_key = sort_key
cat_sort_base = sort_base
cat_sc = sc
end
-- `this_sort_key` will only be set already if `default` can be used.
if not this_sort_key then
-- If the sort key is "-", treat the language as undetermined (the default). This is desirable when categorising (e.g.) translation requests, as the pages to be categorised are always in English/Translingual.
if cat_sort_key == "-" then
cat_lang, cat_sort_key = get_lang("und"), nil
elseif not cat_lang then
cat_lang = get_lang("und")
end
-- Generate the automatic sort key.
local auto = cat_lang:makeSortKey(cat_sort_base or pagename or get_pagename(), cat_sc)
-- Use the page defaultsort if necessary.
if not auto or auto == "" then
auto = defaultsort or get_defaultsort()
end
-- If not sort key specified, use the automatic one.
if not cat_sort_key or cat_sort_key == "" then
cat_sort_key = auto
-- Otherwise, if the language is not "und", categorize the manual sort key as either redundant or non-redundant.
-- FIXME: we should do this for "und" as well, but "Undetermined terms..." does not make sense for translations etc.
elseif cat_lang:getCode() ~= "und" then
if not extra then
extra = {}
end
extra = cat_lang:getFullName() .. " terms with " .. (
uupper(cat_sort_key) == auto and "redundant" or
"non-redundant non-automated"
) .. " sortkeys"
end
-- If the category type wasn't a table, set `default` as the final sort key.
if cat_type ~= "table" then
default = cat_sort_key
end
this_sort_key = cat_sort_key
end
n = n + 1
ret = "]"
end
end
end
--[==[
Add a "catfix", which is used on language-specific category pages to add language attributes and often script
classes to all entry names. The addition of language attributes and script classes makes the entry names display
better (using the language- or script-specific styles specified in ]), which is particularly
important for non-English languages that do not have consistent font support in browsers.
Language attributes are added for all languages, but script classes are only added for languages with one script
listed in their data file, or for languages that have a default script listed in the {catfix_script} list in
]. Some languages clearly have a default script, but still have other scripts listed in
their data file and therefore need their default script to be specified. Others do not have a default script.
* Serbo-Croatian is regularly written in both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Because it uses two scripts,
Serbo-Croatian cannot have a script class applied to entries in its category pages, as only one script class
can be specified at a time.
* Russian is usually written in the Cyrillic script ({{cd|Cyrl}}), but Braille ({{cd|Brai}}) is also listed in
its data file. So Russian needs an entry in the {catfix_script} list, so that the {{cd|Cyrl}} (Cyrillic) script
class will be applied to entries in its category pages.
To find the scripts listed for a language, go to ] and use the search box to find the data file
for the language. To find out what a script code means, search the script code in ].]==]
function export.catfix(lang, sc)
if not lang or not lang.getCanonicalName then
error('The first argument to the function "catfix" should be a language object from ] or ].')
end
if sc and not sc.getCode then
error('The second argument to the function "catfix" should be a script object from ].')
end
local canonicalName = lang:getCanonicalName()
local fullName = lang:getFullName()
-- To add script classes to links on pages created by category boilerplate templates.
if not sc then
local code = (catfix_scripts or get_catfix_scripts()) or catfix_scripts
if code then
sc = get_script(code)
end
end
local catfix_class = anchor_encode("CATFIX-" .. canonicalName)
if fullName ~= canonicalName then
catfix_class = catfix_class .. " " .. anchor_encode("CATFIX-" .. fullName)
end
return "<span id=\"catfix\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"" .. catfix_class .. "\">" .. tag_text(" ", lang, sc, nil) .. "</span>"
end
--[==[
Given a type (as a string) and an arbitrary number of entities, checks whether all of those entities are language,
family, script, writing system or Wikimedia language objects. Useful for error handling in functions that require
one of these kinds of object.
If `noErr` is set, the function returns false instead of throwing an error, which allows customised error handling to
be done in the calling function.]==]
function export.check_object(typ, noErr, ...)
if ... == nil then
if noErr then
return false
end
error("Must provide at least one object to check.", 2)
end
for _, obj in ipairs{...} do
if type(obj) ~= "table" or type(obj.hasType) ~= "function" then
if noErr then
return false
end
error("Function expected a " .. typ .. " object, but received a " .. type(obj) .. " instead.", 2)
elseif not (typ == "object" or obj:hasType(typ)) then
for _, wrong_type in ipairs{"family", "language", "script", "Wikimedia language", "writing system"} do
if obj:hasType(wrong_type) then
if noErr then
return false
end
error("Function expected a " .. typ .. " object, but received a " .. wrong_type .. " object instead.", 2)
end
end
if noErr then
return false
end
error("Function expected a " .. typ .. " object, but received another type of object instead.", 2)
end
end
return true
end
return export