Module:GetData

Documentation for this module may be created at Module:GetData/doc

local p = {}

function p.set(frame)

    if not mw.smw then
        return "mw.smw module not found"
    end

	local pSetData = mw.loadData('Module:GetData/'..frame.args['data'])
	local parentArgs = frame:getParent().args
    local props = parentArgs.prop
    local dataStore = {}

    for propValue in string.gmatch(props, "([^;]+)") do
    	if propValue and pSetData[propValue] then 
            table.insert(dataStore, propValue .. '=' .. pSetData[propValue])
            if parentArgs.sep then
            	table.insert(dataStore, '+sep=' .. parentArgs.sep)
            end
        end
    end

	local dataStored = mw.smw.set( dataStore )

    if dataStored == true then
        return ''
    else
        return 'An error occurred during the storage process. Message reads ' .. dataStored.error
    end

end

function p.main(frame)
	local pData = mw.loadData('Module:GetData/'..frame.args['data'])

	local parentArgs = frame:getParent().args

    local props = parentArgs.prop

    local propTable = {}
    for propValue in string.gmatch(props, "([^;]+)") do
        table.insert(propTable, propValue)
    end

    local finalString = ""

    if parentArgs.intro then
        for k,v in ipairs(propTable) do
            if pData[v] ~= "" then
                finalString = parentArgs.intro
            end
        end
    end

    for i,prop in pairs(propTable) do
        if pData[prop] then

            local pdString = pData[prop]

            if parentArgs.map then
                local pdTable = {}
                if parentArgs.sep then
                    local sep = parentArgs.sep
                    for value in string.gmatch(pdString, "([^" .. sep .. "]+)") do
                        table.insert(pdTable, value)
                    end
                else
                    table.insert(pdTable, pdString)
                end
                local map = parentArgs.map
                pdString = ""
                for k,v in pairs(pdTable) do
                    if v then
                        mapdVal = string.gsub(map, "@@@", v)
                        pdString = pdString .. mapdVal
                    end
                end
            end

            if parentArgs.printsep then
            	finalString = finalString .. parentArgs.printsep .. frame:preprocess( pdString )
            	if mw.ustring.sub(finalString, 1, 1) == parentArgs.printsep then
					finalString = mw.ustring.sub(finalString, 2)
				end
            else
            	finalString = finalString .. frame:preprocess( pdString )
            end

        end
    end

    if parentArgs.outro then
        for k,v in ipairs(propTable) do
            if pData[v] ~= "" then
                finalString = finalString .. parentArgs.outro
            end
        end
    end

    if parentArgs.silent ~= "yes" then
    	if finalString ~= "" and finalString ~= nil then
	        return finalString
	    else
	    	if parentArgs.default then
	    		return parentArgs.default
	    	end
	    end
	end
end

return p