Module:Template translation
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local this = {}
function this.getLanguageSubpage()
-- Get the last subpage (this function isolated for debugging purpose)
local subpage = mw.title.getCurrentTitle().subpageText
--[[If the subpage is a valid language code, check if a translation of the
template exists in that language; if so, put it in langcode.
Check first if there's an apostrophe, because they break the
isKnownLanguageTag function.
]]
if (type(mw.ustring.match(subpage, "'")) == nil)
then
if (mw.language.isKnownLanguageTag(subpage))
then
return subpage
end
end
return ''
end
function this.renderTranslatedTemplate(frame)
--[[If on a translation subpage (like Foobar/de), this function renders
a given template in the same language, if the translation is available.
Otherwise, the template is rendered in its default language, without
modification.
This is aimed at replacing the current implementation of Template:TNT.
]]
local template = frame.args['template']
--[[Check whether the template is actually in the Template namespace, or
if we're transcluding a main-namespace page.
(added for backward compatibility of Template:TNT)
]]
local namespace = 'Template'
local templateFullTitle = mw.title.new(template, namespace)
if (templateFullTitle.id == 0)
then -- not found in the Template namespace, assume the main namespace
namespace = ''
end
local langcode = 'en'
-- Get the last subpage
local subpage = this.getLanguageSubpage()
if (subpage ~= '')
then
langcode = subpage
end
-- Copy args pseudo-table to a proper table so we can feed it to expandTemplate
local arguments = {}
for k, v in pairs(frame.args) do
arguments[k] = v
end
-- Render the template
return frame:expandTemplate{title = namespace .. ':' .. template .. '/' .. langcode, args = arguments}
end
return this
