Module:Political party linked/sandbox

local p = {}

local party_info local link = true

local categories = { party_not_in_list = '', shortname_not_in_list = '', color_not_in_list = '', }

local function create_error(error_message) return string.format(' %s ', error_message) end

local function getFirstLetter(party) local index = mw.ustring.sub(party, 1, 1) -- Set index for non-A-Z starts if string.match(index, '%A') then return '1' end return string.upper(index) end

local function page_exist(page_name) --if require('Module:Disambiguation')._isDisambiguationPage(page_name) then return false end if mw.title.new(page_name).exists then return true end return false end

local function stripToNil(text) -- If text is a string, return its trimmed content, or nil if empty. -- Otherwise return text (which may, for example, be nil). if type(text) == 'string' then text = text:match('(%S.-)%s*$') local delink = require('Module:Delink')._delink text = delink({text, wikilinks = "target"}) end return text end

function p._fetch(args) if not args[1] then return create_error("parameter 1 should be a party name.") end

if not args[2] then return create_error("parameter 2 should be the output type.") end

local party = stripToNil(args[1]) local out_type = stripToNil(args[2]) local index = getFirstLetter(party)

-- Load data from submodule local data = mw.loadData('Module:Political party/' .. index) local data_all = data.full

local party_alt = data.alternate[party] if party_alt then if party_alt:find("S%)") or not page_exist(party_alt)--temporaries, should be fixed-- or --data.alternate.use_key[party]--require('Module:Political party linked/exempt')[party] then link = false else party = party_alt end --leechers		if data_all[party_alt] then			party_info = data_all[party_alt]		else			index = getFirstLetter(party_alt)			data = mw.loadData('Module:Political party/' .. index)			party_info = data.full[party_alt]		end	else		party_info = data_all[party]	end

-- Check if database value exists -- * Not even in database - return given error or input -- * No shortname/abbrev - return first non-blank of abbrev->shortname->input if not party_info then return args.error or party end local display_name = party_info[out_type] if display_name == "" then if out_type == 'shortname' then if party_info.abbrev ~= "" then display_name = party_info.abbrev else display_name = party end elseif out_type == 'abbrev' then if party_info.shortname ~= "" then display_name = party_info.shortname else display_name = party end else display_name = party end elseif not display_name then if out_type == 'full' then display_name = mw.ustring.gsub(party, '%s+%b$', '') elseif out_type == 'dab' then display_name = party elseif out_type == '_shortname' then display_name = args[3] else return nil end end

if link and party_info.link then if party_info.link == "" then return display_name end return string.format("%s", party_info.link, display_name) elseif page_exist(party) then return string.format("%s", party, display_name) else return display_name end end

function p._tagCfetch(args) local linked_party = p._fetch(args) local color = party_info and (party_info.color ~= "") and party_info.color or "#F8F9FA" return linked_party, color end

function p.fetch(frame) -- Initialise and populate variables local getArgs = require("Module:Arguments").getArgs local args = getArgs(frame)

return p._fetch(args) end

return p