imported>Fred Gandt: use mw.getCurrentFrame()

2016-03-30T06:39:16Z

use mw.getCurrentFrame()

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local getArgs = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs
local p = {}

-- Fetch expansions of Editing advice meta templates
local function getRequestedAdvice(haystack, needle, pages)
-- if a request is made for that advice
if string.match(haystack, needle) then
return mw.getCurrentFrame():expandTemplate{
title = 'Editing advice/meta/' .. needle,
args = pages or {}
}
end
return ''
end

-- Return concatenation of fetched template expansions
local function compileRequestedAdvice(about, pages)
return getRequestedAdvice(about, 'preview', pages) ..
getRequestedAdvice(about, 'summary') ..
getRequestedAdvice(about, 'sandbox')
end

--[[ Main function: iterates through provided params and uses
what is discovered to call for and organise the requested output ]]
function p._getAdvice(cleanargs)
-- Create capturing vars for data
local about = ''
local pages = {}
local section = {}
local f = mw.getCurrentFrame()
-- Iterate through provided params
for key, value in pairs(cleanargs) do
-- If the param specifies the advice requested
if key == 'about' then
-- store the value
about = value
-- If the param specifies the section heading option
elseif key == 'section' then
-- store the value
section[1] = value
else
--[[ If neither of the above, these params must be pages
so store the values as they are processed ]]
pages[#pages + 1] = value
end
end
-- Output concatenation of fetched strings
return f:expandTemplate{
title = 'Editing advice/meta/start',
args = section
} ..
compileRequestedAdvice(about, pages) ..
f:expandTemplate{
title = 'Editing advice/meta/end'
}
end

--Get and cleanup frame args and pass them to _getAdvice
function p.getAdvice(frame)
local args = getArgs(frame)
return p._getAdvice(args)
end

return p

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imported>Fred Gandt: use mw.getCurrentFrame()