Module:Category main article/sandbox

-- This module implements.

local mHatnote = require('Module:Hatnote') local mFormatLink = require('Module:Format link') local yesno = require('Module:Yesno') local mTableTools -- lazily initialise local mArguments -- lazily initialise

local p = {}

function p.catMain(frame) mTableTools = require('Module:TableTools') mArguments = require('Module:Arguments') local args = mArguments.getArgs(frame, {wrappers = 'Template:Category main article'}) local pages = mTableTools.compressSparseArray(args) local options = { article = args.article, selfref = args.selfref }	return p._catMain(options, unpack(pages)) end

function p._catMain(options, ...) options = options or {}

-- Get the links table. local links = mFormatLink.formatPages({}, {...}) if not links[1] then local page = mw.title.getCurrentTitle.text links[1] = mFormatLink._formatLink{link = page} end for i, link in ipairs(links) do		links[i] = string.format("%s", link) end

-- Get the pagetype. local pages = {...} local pagetype if options.article ~= nil then pagetype = yesno(options.article) ~= false and 'article' or 'page' elseif pages and pages[1] then local page = pages[1]:gsub("|.*","") pagetype = mw.title.new(page).namespace == 0 and "article" or "page" else pagetype = "article" end

-- Work out whether we need to be singular or plural. local stringToFormat if #links > 1 then stringToFormat = 'The main %ss for this category are %s.' else stringToFormat = 'The main %s for this category is %s.' end

-- Get the text. local text = string.format(		stringToFormat,		pagetype,		mw.text.listToText(links)	) -- Pass it through to Module:Hatnote. local hnOptions = {} hnOptions.selfref = options.selfref

return mHatnote._hatnote(text, hnOptions) end

return p