imported>Naypta: key, not arg, that should not be consumed

2020-06-08T14:40:12Z

key, not arg, that should not be consumed

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local p = {} --p stands for package

function p.templateEveryYearToPresent ( frame )
-- use the parent args if available, assuming this is embedded in a template
parentArgs = frame:getParent().args
argsToUse = ((parentArgs[1] and parentArgs) or frame.args)

years = yearsFromYearToPresent( argsToUse[1] )
toReturn = ""

templateArgs = {}
templateDoNotConsume = {}

-- allow transcluding templates to specify arguments they consume,
-- so we should ignore them
for arg in mw.text.gsplit( frame.args['templatedonotconsume'] or '', ',', true )
do
templateDoNotConsume[arg] = true
end

for key, arg in pairs( argsToUse ) do
-- taking everything beyond the second arg, we pass it onto the template
-- this includes named args, so we don't want to just do > 2
if (
key ~= 1
and key ~= 2
and not templateDoNotConsume[key]
)
then
numericKey = tonumber( key )
if ( numericKey )
then
-- templateArgs[1] will always be the year (lua arrays start at 1)
-- templateArgs[2] should be the first other template param
-- which is args[3], so we have here [key - 1]
templateArgs[key - 1] = arg
else
-- named params we just shove in
templateArgs[key] = arg
end
end
end

for index, year in ipairs( years ) do
templateArgs[1] = tostring( year )
toReturn = toReturn .. ( index == 0 and '' or '<br />' )
.. "<strong>" .. templateArgs[1] .. "</strong> — "
-- if parentArgs is used, then frame.args[1] will be the template,
-- as no other args are going to be in the immediate frame. if
-- there are no parentArgs, then it'll be the second param,
-- because the year will have been directly passed to the module
.. frame:expandTemplate{ title = ((parentArgs[1] and frame.args[1]) or frame.args[2]), args = templateArgs }
end
return toReturn
end

function yearsFromYearToPresent( year )
startyear = tonumber( year )
if ( startyear == nil )
then
error( "Invalid start year provided" )
end

years = {}
numyears = ( tonumber( os.date( "%Y" ) ) - startyear )
for numadded = 0, numyears do -- equiv of i = 0; i <= numyears; i++
years[numadded + 1] = startyear + numadded
end
return years
end

return p

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imported>Naypta: key, not arg, that should not be consumed