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-- the goal of this module is to standardize creating imagemaps for yearly Senate and Gubernatorial elections in the United States. local utils = require("Module:US elections imagemap/utils") -- utilities such as a string splitting function local data = require("Module:US elections imagemap/data") -- data such as shapes of states; do NOT change to mw.loadData as that breaks excluded-states local stateshapes = data.stateshapes local cycles = data.cycles local statenames = data.statenames local p = {} function p.makeMap(frame) local states = cycles[frame.args.cycle] or error("error: invalid/no cycle specified") -- require to specify a cycle local extrastates = utils.split(frame.args.extra_states or "", ";") -- extra states to add local extralines = utils.split(frame.args.extra_lines or "", ";") -- extra raw lines to add local excludedstates = utils.split(frame.args.excluded_states or "", ";") -- states to EXCLUDE for _, excludedstate in ipairs(excludedstates) do for k, state in ipairs(states) do if state == excludedstate then table.remove(states, k) -- remove the state from the table. this doesn't remove it if it's included in extra_states end end end local stateoverrides = utils.split(frame.args.state_overrides or "", ";") -- state overrides for links (for example, linking to a recall election) local overrides = {} -- overrides should be an array of STATE="Override" for _, override in ipairs(stateoverrides) do local overridear = utils.split(override,"=") overrides[overridear[1]] = " [[" .. overridear[2] .. "]]\r\n\r\n" -- format the same as normal links end local linktemplatearg = frame.args.link_template or error("error: no link template specified") -- require a link template local linktemplate = " [[" .. linktemplatearg .. "]]\r\n\r\n" -- make it a wikilink, also the space is necessary to separate from the shape data local imagemap = "\r\n\r\n" -- start the imagemap for _, line in ipairs(extralines) do -- for each extra line. these have to come before normal lines to override them (otherwise, special elections for example don't work) imagemap = imagemap .. line .. "\r\n\r\n" -- append the extra line end for _, state in ipairs(extrastates) do -- for each extrastate - do first, in case of conflicts (like special elections, see above) statename = statenames[state] or error (state) -- if a state isn't in the list for some reason, this will tell which one local link = overrides[state] or string.gsub(linktemplate, "STATE", statenames[state]) -- check for individual state override, if not, swap the state name into the link template imagemap = imagemap .. stateshapes[state] .. link -- add the link (which already contains the needed newline) end for _, state in ipairs(states) do -- for each state statename = statenames[state] or error (state) -- if a state isn't in the list for some reason, this will tell which one local link = overrides[state] or string.gsub(linktemplate, "STATE", statenames[state]) -- check for individual state override, if not, swap the state name into the link template imagemap = imagemap .. stateshapes[state] .. link -- add the link (which already contains the needed newline) end return imagemap end return p
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