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Trialpears moved page Module:Category manager to Module:Sandbox/Nihiltres/Category manager without leaving a redirect: Userfying per Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2019_December_31#Module:Category_manager

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local checkType = require('libraryUtil').checkType
local p = {}

--Global strings and forms
local defaults = {
badCatListFormat = "Bad category list format (key: %s, value: %s)",
categoryForm = "[[Category:%s]]",
keyedCategoryForm = "[[Category:%s|%s]]",
missingNameMsg = "Missing category name"
}

--Adds a category to the provided category list; sortKey is optional
function p.addCategory(catList, name, sortKey)
--Check and normalize parameters
checkType('addCategory', 1, catList, 'table')
checkType('addCategory', 2, name, 'string')
name = mw.text.trim(name)
checkType('addCategory', 3, sortKey, 'string', true)
if #name == 0 then error(defaults.missingNameMsg, 2) end
if sortKey == nil or #sortKey == 0 then sortKey = nil end

--Add category to category list
catList[name] = sortKey or true
end

--Removes a category from the provided category list
function p.removeCategory(catList, name)
--Check and normalize parameters
checkType('removeCategory', 1, catList, 'table')
checkType('removeCategory', 2, name, 'string')
name = mw.text.trim(name)
if #name == 0 then error(defaults.missingNameMsg, 2) end

--Remove category from category list
catList[name] = nil
end

--Converts a category list to a string containing its categories as wikitext
function p.writeCategoryList(catList, nullify)
checkType('removeCategory', 1, catList, 'table')
checkType('removeCategory', 2, name, 'boolean', true)

if nullify then return "" end

local constructedList = {}
for k, v in pairs(catList) do
if (
type(k) ~= "string" or
(
(type(v) ~= "boolean" or v == false) and
(type(v) ~= "string")
)
) then
error(
string.format(
defaults.badCatListFormat,
mw.dumpObject(k),
mw.dumpObject(v)
),
2
)
end
table.insert(
constructedList,
(v == true) and
string.format(defaults.categoryForm, k) or
string.format(defaults.keyedCategoryForm, k, v)
)
end
return table.concat(constructedList)
end

return p

Module:Sandbox/Nihiltres/Category manager - Revision history

imported>Trialpears: Trialpears moved page Module:Category manager to Module:Sandbox/Nihiltres/Category manager without leaving a redirect: Userfying per Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2019_December_31#Module:Category_manager