This module outputs various kinds of lists. At present, it supports bulleted lists, unbulleted lists, horizontal lists, ordered lists (numbered or alphabetical), and horizontal ordered lists. It allows for easy css styling of the list or of the individual list items.
local libUtil = require('libraryUtil')
local checkType = libUtil.checkType
local mTableTools = require('Module:TableTools')
local p = {}
local listTypes = {
['bulleted'] = true,
['unbulleted'] = true,
['horizontal'] = true,
['ordered'] = true,
['horizontal_ordered'] = true
}
function p.makeListData(listType, args)
-- Constructs a data table to be passed to p.renderList.
local data = {}
-- Classes and TemplateStyles
data.classes = {}
data.templatestyles = ''
if listType == 'horizontal' or listType == 'horizontal_ordered' then
table.insert(data.classes, 'hlist')
data.templatestyles = mw.getCurrentFrame():extensionTag{
name = 'templatestyles', args = { src = 'Hlist/styles.css' }
}
elseif listType == 'unbulleted' then
table.insert(data.classes, 'plainlist')
data.templatestyles = mw.getCurrentFrame():extensionTag{
name = 'templatestyles', args = { src = 'Plainlist/styles.css' }
}
end
table.insert(data.classes, args.class)
-- Main div style
data.style = args.style
-- Indent for horizontal lists
if listType == 'horizontal' or listType == 'horizontal_ordered' then
local indent = tonumber(args.indent)
indent = indent and indent * 1.6 or 0
if indent > 0 then
data.marginLeft = indent .. 'em'
end
end
-- List style types for ordered lists
-- This could be "1, 2, 3", "a, b, c", or a number of others. The list style
-- type is either set by the "type" attribute or the "list-style-type" CSS
-- property.
if listType == 'ordered' or listType == 'horizontal_ordered' then
data.listStyleType = args.list_style_type or args['list-style-type']
data.type = args['type']
-- Detect invalid type attributes and attempt to convert them to
-- list-style-type CSS properties.
if data.type
and not data.listStyleType
and not tostring(data.type):find('^%s*[1AaIi]%s*$')
then
data.listStyleType = data.type
data.type = nil
end
end
-- List tag type
if listType == 'ordered' or listType == 'horizontal_ordered' then
data.listTag = 'ol'
else
data.listTag = 'ul'
end
-- Start number for ordered lists
data.start = args.start
if listType == 'horizontal_ordered' then
-- Apply fix to get start numbers working with horizontal ordered lists.
local startNum = tonumber(data.start)
if startNum then
data.counterReset = 'listitem ' .. tostring(startNum - 1)
end
end
-- List style
-- ul_style and ol_style are included for backwards compatibility. No
-- distinction is made for ordered or unordered lists.
data.listStyle = args.list_style
-- List items
-- li_style is included for backwards compatibility. item_style was included
-- to be easier to understand for non-coders.
data.itemStyle = args.item_style or args.li_style
data.items = {}
for _, num in ipairs(mTableTools.numKeys(args)) do
local item = {}
item.content = args[num]
item.style = args['item' .. tostring(num) .. '_style']
or args['item_style' .. tostring(num)]
item.value = args['item' .. tostring(num) .. '_value']
or args['item_value' .. tostring(num)]
table.insert(data.items, item)
end
return data
end
function p.renderList(data)
-- Renders the list HTML.
-- Return the blank string if there are no list items.
if type(data.items) ~= 'table' or #data.items < 1 then
return ''
end
-- Render the main div tag.
local root = mw.html.create('div')
for _, class in ipairs(data.classes or {}) do
root:addClass(class)
end
root:css{['margin-left'] = data.marginLeft}
if data.style then
root:cssText(data.style)
end
-- Render the list tag.
local list = root:tag(data.listTag or 'ul')
list
:attr{start = data.start, type = data.type}
:css{
['counter-reset'] = data.counterReset,
['list-style-type'] = data.listStyleType
}
if data.listStyle then
list:cssText(data.listStyle)
end
-- Render the list items
for _, t in ipairs(data.items or {}) do
local item = list:tag('li')
if data.itemStyle then
item:cssText(data.itemStyle)
end
if t.style then
item:cssText(t.style)
end
item
:attr{value = t.value}
:wikitext(t.content)
end
return data.templatestyles .. tostring(root)
end
function p.renderTrackingCategories(args)
local isDeprecated = false -- Tracks deprecated parameters.
for k, v in pairs(args) do
k = tostring(k)
if k:find('^item_style%d+$') or k:find('^item_value%d+$') then
isDeprecated = true
break
end
end
local ret = ''
if isDeprecated then
ret = ret .. '[[Category:List templates with deprecated parameters]]'
end
return ret
end
function p.makeList(listType, args)
if not listType or not listTypes[listType] then
error(string.format(
"bad argument #1 to 'makeList' ('%s' is not a valid list type)",
tostring(listType)
), 2)
end
checkType('makeList', 2, args, 'table')
local data = p.makeListData(listType, args)
local list = p.renderList(data)
local trackingCategories = p.renderTrackingCategories(args)
return list .. trackingCategories
end
for listType in pairs(listTypes) do
p[listType] = function (frame)
local mArguments = require('Module:Arguments')
local origArgs = mArguments.getArgs(frame, {
frameOnly = ((frame and frame.args and frame.args.frameonly or '') ~= ''),
valueFunc = function (key, value)
if not value or not mw.ustring.find(value, '%S') then return nil end
if mw.ustring.find(value, '^%s*[%*#;:]') then
return value
else
return value:match('^%s*(.-)%s*$')
end
return nil
end
})
-- Copy all the arguments to a new table, for faster indexing.
local args = {}
for k, v in pairs(origArgs) do
args[k] = v
end
return p.makeList(listType, args)
end
end
return p
