Module:Type in location

Usage

For generating short descriptions for infoboxes of structures/small places such as dams and museums, which are often in the format of type in location. Example:

{{#invoke:Type in location|main|{{{type|}}}|{{{location|}}}|check-patterns = [Mm]useum;foo;bar}}

Description only shows if check-pattern is matched in type.

Multiple check-patterns can be specified as "pattern1;pattern2;pattern3" and so on.

Also has helper functions of prepareLoc (for removing extraneous from addresses) and generalLoc (for getting more general location from specific address) which can be used seperately.

What is specified in the Template:Para parameter will be added with a space if the check-patterns fail.

Setting Template:Para gives the full of the location (with slight processing) instead of the more general location.

---

local p = {}
local plaintext = require("Module:Plain text")._main

--Cleanup/format location for use in short descriptions
function p.prepareLoc (frame)
	return p._prepareLoc (frame.args[1])
end

function p._prepareLoc (text)
	text = plaintext(text)
	text = text..',' --comma at the end makes things convenient
	text = text:gsub('%b()', ', ') --remove things in brackets as extraneous information
			   :gsub('[^%s,]*%d[^%s,]*', '') --remove things with digits as generally being unnecessary postal codes/road numbers etc
			   :gsub('(,%s-),', '%1') --fix possible blank separated commas from previous cleanup
			   :gsub('%s%s', ' ') --fix possible extra spaces from previous cleanup
			   :gsub('^[%s,]*', '') --trim commas and spaces from beginning
			   :gsub('[%s,]*$', '') --trim commas and spaces from end
	return text
end

--Gets general location from more specific one for short descriptions
--i.e if a location is specified to be "P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sydney, Australia", return "Sydney, Australia"
--splits by commas and returns last two entries

function p.generalLoc (frame)
	return p._generalLoc (frame.args[1])
end

function p._generalLoc (loc)
	loc = p._prepareLoc(loc)
	split = {}
	num = 0
	loc = loc..',' --comma at the end for convenient splitting with gmatch
	for k in loc:gmatch('([^,]*),') do --split by commas
		table.insert(split, k)
		num = num + 1
	end
	if num == 1 then --if only comma was the one at the end return the whole thing
		return split[1]
	else
		return split[num-1]..','..split[num] --return last two entries separated by commas
	end
end

--validate type parameter
function p.validateTyp (typ, args)
	checkpatterns = args['check-patterns']
	invalidadd = args.invalidadd
	if checkpatterns then
		for k in (checkpatterns..';'):gmatch('([^;]*);') do --split checkpatterns by ;, check if one of the patterns is in type
			if typ:match(k) then return typ end
		end
		if invalidadd then --if invalid, add to make it valid
			return typ..' '..invalidadd
		end
	else
		return typ
	end
end

--generates type in location
function p.main(frame)
	args = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs (frame, {frameOnly = true})
	return p._main(args, frame)
end

function p._main (args, frame)
	cleanupLoc = require('Module:Settlement short description').cleanupLoc
	typ = args[1]
	if typ then typ = plaintext(args[1]) end
	if not typ then return end --check after plaintexting if typ exists
	sep = ((args.sep == 'no') and '') or args.sep or ' in ' --if args.sep set to no, nothing between typ and loc, if it has other value put that
	local loc = args[2]
	if args['full-loc'] then func = '_prepareLoc' else func =  '_generalLoc' end
	if loc then
		loc = p[func](loc)
		loc = cleanupLoc (loc)
		if loc then loc =  sep..loc else loc = "" end
	else
		loc = ""
	end
	typ = p.validateTyp (typ, args)
	if typ then return frame:expandTemplate {title = 'Short description', args = {typ..loc, 'noreplace'}} end
end

return p