Module:Cat main
Documentation for this module may be created at Module:Cat main/doc
-- This module implements {{cat main}}.
local mHatnote = require('Module:Hatnote')
local mFormatLink = require('Module:Format link')
local yesno = require('Module:Yesno')
local mTableTools -- lazily initialise
local mArguments -- lazily initialise
local p = {}
function p.catMain(frame)
mTableTools = require('Module:TableTools')
mArguments = require('Module:Arguments')
local args = mArguments.getArgs(frame, {wrappers = 'Template:Cat main'})
local pages = mTableTools.compressSparseArray(args)
local options = {
article = args.article,
selfref = args.selfref
}
return p._catMain(options, unpack(pages))
end
function p._catMain(options, ...)
options = options or {}
-- Get the links table.
local links = mFormatLink.formatPages({}, {...})
if not links[1] then
local page = mw.title.getCurrentTitle().text
links[1] = mFormatLink._formatLink{link = page}
end
for i, link in ipairs(links) do
links[i] = string.format("'''%s'''", link)
end
-- Get the pagetype.
local pages = {...}
local pagetype
if options.article ~= nil then
pagetype = yesno(options.article) ~= false and 'article' or 'page'
elseif pages and pages[1] then
local page = pages[1]:gsub("|.*","")
pagetype = mw.title.new(page).namespace == 0 and "article" or "page"
else
pagetype = "article"
end
-- Work out whether we need to be singular or plural.
local stringToFormat
if #links > 1 then
stringToFormat = 'The main %ss for this [[Help:Categories|category]] are %s.'
else
stringToFormat = 'The main %s for this [[Help:Categories|category]] is %s.'
end
-- Get the text.
local text = string.format(
stringToFormat,
pagetype,
mw.text.listToText(links)
)
-- Pass it through to Module:Hatnote.
local hnOptions = {}
hnOptions.selfref = options.selfref
return mHatnote._hatnote(text, hnOptions)
end
return p