Module:DemoTemplate

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

require('Module:No globals')

local newBuffer = require('Module:OutputBuffer')
local mt = {}

function mt.__index(t, title)
	return function(frame)
		local getBuffer, print, printf = newBuffer()
		printf('{{%s', title)
		local ipairsArgs = {}
		for k,v in ipairs(frame.args) do
			ipairsArgs[k] = true
			if string.find(v, '=', 1, true) then
				printf('|%d=%s', k, v)
			else
				printf('|%s', v)
			end
		end
		for k,v in pairs(frame.args) do
			if not ipairsArgs[k] then
				printf('|%s=%s', string.gsub(k, '=', '{{=}}'), v)
			end
		end
		print('}}')
		local buffer = getBuffer()
		-- rather than calling expandTemplate with the title and args we have, call preprocess, so that our code example will always match our output, even in the cases of pipes or other things we should have escaped but didn't
		return string.format('<code>%s</code> &rarr; %s', mw.text.nowiki(buffer), frame:preprocess(buffer))
	end
end

return setmetatable({}, mt)