Module:LangSwitch

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 Authors and maintainers:
* User:Zolo   - original version in Module:Fallback
* User:Jarekt 
]]

-- add optional module 
-- used for debugging purposes as it detects cases of unintended global variables
require('Module:No globals') 

local p = {}

local function add_labels(args)
	-- add invisible but machine readable labels to the files, which can be used to add titles to wikidata items
	local createTag = require('Module:TagQS').createTag -- lazy loading of the module: only for the files that need it
	local qsTable = {''}

	-- add text of invisible tag brodcasted by the template which allows creation of QuickStatements command used to add this info to Wikidata
	for lang, text in pairs( args ) do 
		if type(lang)=='string' and mw.language.isSupportedLanguage(lang)  then -- lang has to be a valid language 
			table.insert( qsTable, createTag('label', 'L'..lang, '"' .. text .. '"') )
		end
	end
	return table.concat( qsTable, '\n')
end

--[[
_langSwitch
 
This function is the core part of the LangSwitch template. 
 
Example usage from Lua:
text = _langSwitch({en='text in english', pl='tekst po polsku'}, lang)
 
Parameters:
  args - table with translations by language
  lang - desired language (often user's native language)

 Error Handling:

]]

function p._langSwitch(args, lang) -- args: table of translations
	-- Return error if there is not default and no english version
	if not args.en and not args.default then
		local err = '<b class="error">LangSwitch Error: no default</b>'
		if args.nocat == '1' then
			return err
		else
			return err .. '[[Category:LangSwitch template without default version]]'
		end
	end
	
	-- To improve performance try quick switch, and load fallback chain only if needed. 
	-- In the vast majority of cases fast switch is sufficient
	local val = args[lang]
	if val == '~' then 
		return ''
	elseif val and val ~= '' then 
		return val 
	elseif args.quick then
		return nil
	end
	
	-- get the list of accepetable language (lang + those in lang's fallback chain) and check their content
	assert(lang, 'LangSwitch Error: no lang')
	local langList = mw.language.getFallbacksFor(lang)
	table.insert(langList,1,lang)
	table.insert(langList,math.max(#langList,2),'default')
	for _, language in ipairs(langList) do 
		val = args[language]
		if val == '~' then 
			return ''
		elseif val and val ~= '' then 
			return val 
		end
	end
end

--[[
langSwitch
 
This function is the core part of the LangSwitch template. 
 
Example Usage from a template:
{{#invoke:fallback|langSwitch|en=text in english|pl=tekst po polsku|lang={{int:lang}} }}
 
Parameters:
  frame.args - table with translations by language
  frame.args.lang - desired language (often user's native language)

 Error Handling:

]]
function p.langSwitch(frame) -- version to be used from wikitext
	local args = frame.args
	-- if no expected args provided than check parent template/module args
	if args.en==nil and args.default==nil and args.nocat==nil then
		args = mw.getCurrentFrame():getParent().args 
	end
	local lang = args.lang
	if not lang or not mw.language.isKnownLanguageTag(lang) then
		lang = frame:callParserFunction( "int", "lang" ) -- get user's chosen language 
	end
	
	-- add text of invisible tag brodcasted by the template which allows creation of QuickStatements command used to add this info to Wikidata
	local labels = ''
	if args.add_labels then
		labels = add_labels(args)
	end
	
	-- Try quick switch which checks the most likely option when fallback is not needed
	args.quick = true;
	local val = p._langSwitch(args, lang)
	if val then
		return val .. labels
	end
	
	-- Allow input in format: {{LangSwitch|de=Grün|es/it/pt=Verde|fr=Vert|en=Green |lang=en}}
	-- with multiple languages mapping to a single value
	local args1 = {}
	for name, value in pairs( args ) do 
		if value ~= '' and type(name)=='string' then 
    		for str in string.gmatch( name, "([^/]+)" ) do
				args1[str] = value
			end
		end
	end
	return p._langSwitch(args1, lang) .. labels
end

return p