Module:Settlement short description/sandbox

--generates auto short description for use in infobox settlement local p = {} p.categories = "" local plain = require('Module:Plain text')._main local getArgs = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs local tableTools = require ('Module:TableTools')

function p.reverseTable (init) init[1], init[3] = init[3], init[1] return init end

function p.assign (args, argname, num) local val local var = {} for i = 0,num do		--handle initial "subdivision_foo" without number if i == 0 then val = "" else val = tostring(i) end var[i+1] = p.validate(plain(args[argname..val])) end return var end

--Display short description using function p.shortdesc(text, frame) return frame:expandTemplate{title = 'Short description', args = {text, 'noreplace'}} end

function p.category (cattype) local category = string.format('', cattype) if category then p.categories = p.categories..category end --categorize end

--sanity and other checks function p.validate (parameter, cat) if not parameter then return nil end parameter = parameter:gsub('%b', '') --remove things in brackets as extraneous information :gsub('%s+', ' ') --fix possible extra spaces from previous cleanup :gsub('^%s+', '') --trim spaces from beginning :gsub('%s+$', '') --trim spaces from end if parameter:match("[,;]") or not parameter:match("%a") then --must have some letters, ignore if multiple types/subdivisions if cat then p.category (cat) end return nil end if (parameter == "") then return nil end return parameter end

--removes redundancy like "England, United Kingdom" and fixes issues like "Foo in United States" (to "Foo in the United States") --also used in Module:Type in location function p.cleanupLoc (location) if location == "" then return nil end local replacements = { ["England, United Kingdom"] = "England", ["Scotland, United Kingdom"] = "Scotland", ["Wales, United Kingdom"] = "Wales", ["New York City, New York, United States"] = "New York City", ["^United States$"] = "the United States", ["London, United Kingdom"] = "London, England" }	for i, v in pairs(replacements) do 		location = location:gsub(i, v) --series of replacements end return location end

function p.main(frame) local categories = "" local subdivision_types = {} local subdivision_names = {} local args = getArgs (frame, {parentOnly = true}) local settlement_type = p.validate(plain(args.settlement_type or args.type), "settlement type") or "Place" local short_description = plain(args.short_description) subdivision_types = p.assign(args, "subdivision_type", 2) subdivision_names = p.assign(args, "subdivision_name", 2) if short_description then if (short_description == 'no') then return else local language = mw.language.getContentLanguage return p.shortdesc(language:ucfirst(short_description), frame) end end if not(subdivision_names[3] and		(string.find(settlement_type, '[nN]eighbo[u]?rhood') or string.find(settlement_type, '[sS]uburb'))) then subdivision_names[3] = nil --display the third subdivision_type only if suburb or neighborhood end --if say "Voivodeship" is found within the subdivision_type, then specially handle --by adding Voivodeship to the end if not already present for x, y in ipairs (subdivision_types) do		local special_types = { "Voivodeship" }		for i, j in ipairs(special_types) do			if subdivision_names[x] and string.find(y, j, 1, true) and not string.find(subdivision_names[x], j, 1, true) then subdivision_names[x] = subdivision_names[x].." "..j			end end end for x, y in ipairs (subdivision_names) do		if y then if string.find(settlement_type, y, 1, true) then --if the subdivision is found within the settlement type subdivision_names[x] = nil --don't display redundancy p.category ("settlement type") end if y == mw.title.getCurrentTitle.text then --if the title is the same as one of the subdivision_names subdivision_names[x] = nil --don't display redundancy end end end

local location = table.concat(tableTools.compressSparseArray(p.reverseTable(subdivision_names)), ', ') location = p.cleanupLoc (location) if location then location = " in " .. location else location = "" end local language = mw.language.getContentLanguage return p.shortdesc(language:ucfirst(settlement_type..location), frame)..p.categories end

return p