Editing Module:Sandbox/iantresman/sandbox/titlesubscripts

local p = {}

local properties = {
	"id",
	"interwiki",
	"namespace",
	"fragment",
	"nsText",
	"subjectNsText",
	"text",
	"prefixedText",
	"fullText",
	"rootText",
	"baseText",
	"subpageText",
	"canTalk",
	"exists",
	"fileExists",
	"isContentPage",
	"isExternal",
	"isLocal",
	"isRedirect",
	"isSpecialPage",
	"isSubpage",
	"isTalkPage",
	"contentModel",
	"basePageTitle",
	"rootPageTitle",
	"talkPageTitle",
	"subjectPageTitle"
}

local methods = {
	-- "isSubpageOf", -- This method is commented out to avoid errors - it expects a table as input, not a string.
	"inNamespace",
	"inNamespaces",
	"hasSubjectNamespace",
	"subPageTitle",
	"partialUrl",
	"fullUrl",
	"localUrl",
	"canonicalUrl",
	-- "getContent" -- Commenting this out as dumping the entire page content in the output is confusing. :) But try uncommenting it and see what happens.
}

local currentTitle = mw.title.getCurrentTitle()

function p.main(frame)
	result = ""
	
	for _, property in ipairs(properties) do
	   result = result .. "\n# " .. property .. ": " .. tostring(currentTitle[property])
	end
	
	-- currentTitle[method](currentTitle) works because it emulates Lua's colon syntax. This syntax is often
	-- used in implementing Lua's version of object-oriented programming. Take a look at
	-- http://www.lua.org/pil/16.html for a good explanation.
	for _, method in ipairs(methods) do
		result = result .. "\n# " .. method .. ": " .. tostring(currentTitle[method](currentTitle, "Template")) -- "Template" is used to prevent errors when the namespace methods are called.
	end
	
	return result
end

return p