Module:AmmoTable

Documentation for this module may be created at Module:AmmoTable/doc

-- Module:AmmoTable creates a fancy-pants table of ammo

-- declare p at the top, return p at the bottom. Functions of p are what's
-- exposed to #invoke calls.
local p = {}

-- we use the getArgs function from the args module to get the args out
-- of either the invoke call, or the template that called invoke.
local getArgs = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs
-- import the Gear module so that we can use its core.cargo.query function,
-- which does the table joins for you. we'll only import 'core', which has
-- the kind of library functions that we want.
local gear = require('Module:Gear').core

-- functions always take a frame as an argument. The frame describes the
-- page that's calling the function
function p.make_ammo(frame)
  -- just always start with this, trust me.
  local tpl_args = getArgs(frame, {parentFirst=true})

  -- now, let's say the parameter on the template for this is just category,
  -- and the template gets a whole category of ammunition.
  local category = tpl_args['Category']

  -- now we are going to query the ammo table. We want to replicate something
  -- similar to the ammo tables created by hand earlier, so we'll use the fields
  -- UIName, Tonnage, Capacity, and Effects.
  -- the database has both fields Name and UIName, and they're slightly different.
  -- check the database first and pick the one that fits best.
  local fields = 'Gear.UIName,Gear.Tonnage,Ammunition.Capacity,Gear.Bonuses'
  -- we only want the ammo types that match the category that the caller
  -- specified, so we'll set up a where argument. to make this easier, we
  -- will use string.format.
  local args = { where = string.format('Ammunition.Category="%s"', category) }
  local ammoRows = gear.cargo.query(gear.schema.ammunition, fields, args)

  -- now, we'll use scribunto's html library to build a pretty table
  -- start with, obviously, a table
  local ammoTable = mw.html.create('table')
  -- note here we use a colon : instead of a period. that's because this is
  -- a method call in Lua, not a function call.
  ammoTable:addClass('wikitable')

  -- now, we can set up the table headings
  local heading = ammoTable:tag('tr')
  heading:tag('th'):wikitext('Name')
  heading:tag('th'):wikitext('Tonnage')
  heading:tag('th'):wikitext('Capacity')
  heading:tag('th'):wikitext('Effects')

  -- now we get to the meat of the code, where we're looping through the
  -- query results
  for _, ammo in ipairs(ammoRows) do
    local row = ammoTable:tag('tr')
    row:tag('td'):wikitext(ammo['Gear.UIName'])
    row:tag('td'):wikitext(ammo['Gear.Tonnage'])
    row:tag('td'):wikitext(ammo['Ammunition.Capacity'])

    -- now here comes a bit of a weird part. In blatant disregard for 
    -- the First Normal Form, the Bonuses field is a comma-separated list.
    -- we want to make it pretty though, so what we'll do is put the bonuses
    -- in a ul tag
    local bonusList = row:tag('td'):tag('ul')
    for _, bonus in ipairs(mw.text.split(ammo['Gear.Bonuses'], ',')) do
      bonusList:tag('li'):wikitext(bonus)
    end
  end

  -- finally, at the end, return the table we made
  return ammoTable
end

-- return p at the bottom, declare p at the top
return p