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
--[[Check first if there's an apostrophe, because they break the isKnownLanguageTag
function. This test does not work with regexps, use plain search instead (no need
to use Unicode parser, apostrophes can only appear isolated as one byte in UTF-8).
]]
if (string.find(subpage, "'", 1, true) == nil)
then
--[[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.
]]
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 and check if it matches a known language code
local subpage = this.getLanguageSubpage()
if (subpage ~= '')
then
local translation = mw.title.new(namespace .. template .. '/' .. subpage)
if (translation.id ~= 0)
then
langcode = subpage
end
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
