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WarningThis Lua module is used in system messages, and on approximately 23,600,000 pages, or roughly 35% of all pages.
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This module depends on the following other modules:
  • Module:If preview (sandbox)

Module:Check for unknown parameters is used to check for uses of unknown parameters in a template or module. It may be appended to a template at the end or called directly from a module.

Usage

From a template

To sort entries into a tracking category by parameter, use:

  • {{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=[[Category:Some tracking category|_VALUE_]]|arg1|arg2|arg3|argN}}

To sort the entries into a tracking category by parameter with a preview error message, use:

  • {{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=[[Category:Some tracking category|_VALUE_]]|preview=unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|arg1|arg2|...|argN}}

For an explicit red error message, use:

  • {{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=<span class="error">Sorry, I don't recognize _VALUE_</span>|arg1|arg2|...|argN}}

To use Lua patterns, use:

  • {{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=[[Category:Some tracking category|_VALUE_]]|preview=unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|arg1|arg2|...|argN|regexp1=header[%d]+|regexp2=date[1-9]}}

From a module

To call from a module, use:

local checkForUnknownParameters = require("Module:Check for unknown parameters")
local result = checkForUnknownParameters._check(validArgs, args)

Where the first set of args are the module args below and the second set of args are the parameters that are checked.

Parameters

  • arg1, arg2, ..., argN, are the known parameters.
  • Unnamed (positional) parameters can be added too: |1|2|arg1|arg2|....
  • Lua patterns (similar to regular expressions) usage with parameters is also supported (such as: |regexp1=header[%d]+, |regexp2=date[1-9], |regexp3=data[%d]+[abc]?). This is useful when there are many known parameters which use a systematic pattern.
  • |unknown= – what happens when an unknown parameter is used. Typically use either a tracking category to place pages that use unknown parameters, or an error.
  • |preview= – the text to be displayed when in preview mode and an unknown parameter is used.
  • The _VALUE_ keyword, if used, will be changed to the name of the parameter. This is useful for either sorting the entries in a tracking category, or for provide more explicit information.
  • |ignoreblank=1 – by default, the module makes no distinction between a defined-but-blank parameter and a non-blank parameter. That is, both unlisted |foo=x and |foo= are reported. To only track non-blank parameters use |ignoreblank=1. If you clean your arguments with Module:Arguments and call this module afterwards, you need not use this parameter as that module ignores blank arguments by default.
  • |showblankpositional=1 – by default, the module ignores blank positional parameters. That is, an unlisted |2= is ignored. To include blank positional parameters in the tracking use |showblankpositional=1.
  • |mapframe_args= – When this is set to a non-null value, the various Module:Infobox mapframe parameters will be automatically included in the list of valid parameters. This eliminates the need to manually add all 20+ params. NOTE this should only be used when {{#invoke:Infobox mapframe|autoWithCation}} is in the template calling Check for unknown. Do NOT use if using {{Infobox mapframe}} as not all parameters are included when calling the template.
  • | pushpin_map_args= – When this is set to a non-null value, the various Module:Location map parameters will be automatically included in the list of valid parameters. This eliminates the need to manually add all 10+ params. NOTE this should only be used when {{#invoke:Location map|infobox_pushpin_map}} is in the template calling Check for unknown. Do NOT use if using {{Location map}} as not all parameters are included when calling the template.

Example

{{Infobox
| above = {{{name|}}}

| label1 = Height
| data1 = {{{height|}}}

| label2 = Weight
| data2 = {{{weight|}}}

| label3 = Website
| data3 = {{{website|}}}
}}<!-- 
  end infobox, start tracking
-->{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check
| unknown = {{Main other|[[Category:Some tracking category|_VALUE_]]}}
| preview = unknown parameter "_VALUE_" | height | name | website | weight 
}}

Call from within Lua code

See the end of Module:Rugby box for a simple example or Module:Infobox3cols or Module:Flag for more complicated examples.

See also

  • Category:Unknown parameters (321) (category page can have header {{Unknown parameters category}})
  • Template:Checks for unknown parameters – adds documentation to templates using this module
  • Module:Check for deprecated parameters – similar module that checks for deprecated parameters
  • Module:Check for conflicting parameters – module that checks for conflicting parameters
  • Module:TemplatePar – similar function (originally from dewiki)
  • Template:Parameters and Module:Parameters – generates a list of parameter names for a given template
  • Project:TemplateData based template parameter validation
  • Module:Parameter validation checks a lot more

User scripts

  • User:Bamyers99/TemplateParametersTool - A tool for checking usage of template parameters
  • User:Zackmann08/scripts/AddCheckForUnknownParameters and User:Frietjes/addcheckforunknownparameters.js, scripts for to quickly and easily generate wikitext for {{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check}} with the parameters in the template
The above documentation is transcluded from Module:Check for unknown parameters/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this module's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit | run) pages.
Subpages of this module.

-- This module may be used to compare the arguments passed to the parent
-- with a list of arguments, returning a specified result if an argument is
-- not on the list

require ('strict');

local p = {}

local pushpin_map_params = {
	'coordinates',
	'pushpin_caption',
	'pushpin_relief',
	'pushpin_label',
	'pushpin_label_position',
	'pushpin_label_size',
	'pushpin_map',
	'pushpin_mark',
	'pushpin_mark_size',
	'pushpin_alt',
	'pushpin_background',
	'pushpin_map_size'
}

local mapframe_params = {
	'coordinates',
	'id',
	'qid',
	'mapframe',
	'mapframe-area_km2',
	'mapframe-area_mi2',
	'mapframe-caption',
	'mapframe-coord',
	'mapframe-coordinates',
	'mapframe-custom',
	'mapframe-frame-coord',
	'mapframe-frame-coordinates',
	'mapframe-frame-height',
	'mapframe-frame-width',
	'mapframe-geomask',
	'mapframe-geomask-fill',
	'mapframe-geomask-fill-opacity',
	'mapframe-geomask-stroke-color',
	'mapframe-geomask-stroke-colour',
	'mapframe-geomask-stroke-width',
	'mapframe-height',
	'mapframe-id',
	'mapframe-length_km',
	'mapframe-length_mi',
	'mapframe-line',
	'mapframe-line-stroke-color',
	'mapframe-line-stroke-colour',
	'mapframe-marker',
	'mapframe-marker-color',
	'mapframe-marker-colour',
	'mapframe-point',
	'mapframe-population',
	'mapframe-shape',
	'mapframe-shape-fill',
	'mapframe-shape-fill-opacity',
	'mapframe-shape-stroke-color',
	'mapframe-shape-stroke-colour',
	'mapframe-stroke-color',
	'mapframe-stroke-colour',
	'mapframe-stroke-width',
	'mapframe-switcher',
	'mapframe-type',
	'mapframe-width',
	'mapframe-wikidata',
	'mapframe-zoom'
}

local function trim(s)
	return s:match('^%s*(.-)%s*$')
end

local function isnotempty(s)
	return s and s:match('%S')
end

local function clean(text)
	-- Return text cleaned for display and truncated if too long.
	-- Strip markers are replaced with dummy text representing the original wikitext.
	local pos, truncated
	local function truncate(text)
		if truncated then
			return ''
		end
		if mw.ustring.len(text) > 25 then
			truncated = true
			text = mw.ustring.sub(text, 1, 25) .. '...'
		end
		return mw.text.nowiki(text)
	end
	local parts = {}
	for before, tag, remainder in text:gmatch('([^\127]*)\127[^\127]*%-(%l+)%-[^\127]*\127()') do
		pos = remainder
		table.insert(parts, truncate(before) .. '&lt;' .. tag .. '&gt;...&lt;/' .. tag .. '&gt;')
	end
	table.insert(parts, truncate(text:sub(pos or 1)))
	return table.concat(parts)
end

function p._check(args, pargs)
	if type(args) ~= "table" or type(pargs) ~= "table" then
		-- TODO: error handling
		return
	end

	-- create the list of known args, regular expressions, and the return string
	local knownargs = {}

	if isnotempty(args['mapframe_args']) then
		for _, v in ipairs(mapframe_params) do
			knownargs[v] = 1
		end
	end

	if isnotempty(args['pushpin_map_args']) then
		for _, v in ipairs(pushpin_map_params) do
			knownargs[v] = 1
		end
	end

	local regexps = {}
	for k, v in pairs(args) do
		if type(k) == 'number' then
			v = trim(v)
			knownargs[v] = 1
		elseif k:find('^regexp[1-9][0-9]*$') then
			table.insert(regexps, '^' .. v .. '$')
		end
	end

	-- loop over the parent args, and make sure they are on the list
	local ignoreblank = isnotempty(args['ignoreblank'])
	local showblankpos = isnotempty(args['showblankpositional'])
	local values = {}
	for k, v in pairs(pargs) do
		if type(k) == 'string' and knownargs[k] == nil then
			local knownflag = false
			for _, regexp in ipairs(regexps) do
				if mw.ustring.match(k, regexp) then
					knownflag = true
					break
				end
			end
			if not knownflag and ( not ignoreblank or isnotempty(v) )  then
				table.insert(values, clean(k))
			end
		elseif type(k) == 'number' and knownargs[tostring(k)] == nil then
			local knownflag = false
			for _, regexp in ipairs(regexps) do
				if mw.ustring.match(tostring(k), regexp) then
					knownflag = true
					break
				end
			end
			if not knownflag and ( showblankpos or isnotempty(v) ) then
				table.insert(values, k .. ' = ' .. clean(v))
			end
		end
	end

	-- add results to the output tables
	local res = {}
	if #values > 0 then
		local unknown_text = args['unknown'] or 'Found _VALUE_, '

		if mw.getCurrentFrame():preprocess( "{{REVISIONID}}" ) == "" then
			local preview_text = args['preview']
			if isnotempty(preview_text) then
				preview_text = require('Module:If preview')._warning({preview_text})
			elseif preview_text == nil then
				preview_text = unknown_text
			end
			unknown_text = preview_text
		end
		for _, v in pairs(values) do
			-- Fix odd bug for | = which gets stripped to the empty string and
			-- breaks category links
			if v == '' then v = ' ' end

			-- avoid error with v = 'example%2' ("invalid capture index")
			local r = unknown_text:gsub('_VALUE_', {_VALUE_ = v})
			table.insert(res, r)
		end
	end

	return table.concat(res)
end

function p.check(frame)
	local args = frame.args
	local pargs = frame:getParent().args
	return p._check(args, pargs)
end

return p
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