Module:Lockbox

local export = {}

-- XXX: OUTRAGEOUS ABUSE OF SCRIBUNTO API -- generates a transclusion without incrementing the "expensive function" count local generate_transclusion do local mock_title = mw.title.new(mw.title.getCurrentTitle.id) local getContent = mock_title.getContent function generate_transclusion(title) rawset(mock_title, 'fullText', title) getContent(mock_title) end -- I can do the same thing without rawset. end

function export.lock(frame) local output = {} -- check if the current page is cascade-protected -- XXX: unfortunately there is no other way; title.protectionLevels does not report cascading protection status mw.title.getCurrentTitle:getContent -- self-transclude; see mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual if frame:preprocess "" == "" then output[#output + 1] = ' Warning: this page (' .. mw.title.getCurrentTitle.fullText .. ') is not cascade-protected. \n' end local match = string.match

for _, item in ipairs(frame.args) do		item = mw.text.trim(item) local ns, rest = match(item, "^(.-):(.*)") if not ns or not mw.site.namespaces[ns] then generate_transclusion('Template:' .. item) output[#output + 1] = '* Template:' .. item .. '' elseif (ns == "File") or (ns == "Image") then generate_transclusion(item) output[#output + 1] = '* ' .. item .. '' elseif ns == "Category" then generate_transclusion(item) output[#output + 1] = '* ' .. item .. '' elseif rest ~= '' then generate_transclusion(item) output[#output + 1] = '* ' .. item .. '' end end

if frame.args.silent then return "" else return table.concat(output, '\n') end end

return export