Module:Items

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

-- Module:Items
local p = {}

function p.createItemTableRow(frame)
  
  -- Get the items and header passed to the module by their names, defaulting items to an empty string and header to "Items"
  local items = mw.text.split(frame.args.items or "", ",")
  local header = frame.args.header or "Items"

  -- Store the number of items
  local numItems = #items

  -- Initialize the result string
  local result = ""

  -- if the item is wrapped in brackets, remove them
  for i, item in ipairs(items) do
    items[i] = item:gsub("%[", ""):gsub("%]", "")
  end

  -- open a table to contain the items, spannin the header by the number of items
  result = result .. "{| class=\"wikitable\"\n"
  result = result .. "! colspan=\"" .. numItems .. "\" | " .. header .. "\n"
  result = result .. "|-\n"
  
  -- Iterate over the items and create an item template for each
  for i, item in ipairs(items) do
    item = mw.text.trim(item)
    
    -- Replace the NAME placeholder with the item name
    local item_template = "{{Item | name = " .. item .. " }}"

    -- Use frame:preprocess to ensure the template call is correctly parsed
    item_template = mw.text.trim(frame:preprocess(item_template))

    -- Append the item template to the result string
    result = result .. "| " .. item_template .. "\n"
  end

  -- close the table
  result = result .. "|}\n"

  return result
end

return p