I think that would be a nice feature to have. Amazingly enough, WikiScripts is not of the extensions that we have in our codebase at wikia (I think we're over 800+), but I will take a look at the implementation. The <lua> parser hook allows for parameters, but that's not the same. Having access to normal template parameters would allow a lua template to act as a drop in replacement for an existing template, which is essential.
We are in a code freeze period here @ wikia, but when we return from the holidays in January I can get the Lua extension enabled on a test wiki (lua.wikia.com) so that other people can experiment with this.
On Dec 21, 2011, at 9:29 PM, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote:
- Owen Davis owen@wikia-inc.com [Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:18:46 +0000
(UTC)]:
It is littered with embedded HTML and string.format statements. Ugh. I'm going to look at something simple like Moustache (which has both JS and Lua implementations already) as a proof of concept. Does anybody have a better suggestion? I think Lua (or JS) by itself is
not
enough, there has to be a nice library of utility functions. Has
anyone
thought about what that will really look like?
Also it would be great if Lua binding could perform parser functions. I believe that Extension:WikiScripts uses parser frame and can use current template parameters, when available: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiScripts Template library (tpl_) allows the script to access the parser and the parameters of the template that invokes the script.
tpl_arg( argname[, default] ) returns the argument which name is specified as an argument, or the default value if it is not set (if no default is specified, it returns false). tpl_named_args() returns all the named arguments to the template. tpl_numbered_args() returns all the numbered arguments. tpl_is_transcluded() returns whether the code is invoked from a template.
Dmitriy
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