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-- THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. USE CAREFULLY AND TEST EXTENSIVELY.

local p = {}

function p.assembleMessage(frame)
--[[ This function takes existing translations for a given page
translated using the translate extension and puts them together to
generate the wikicode ready to be delivered by [Global message delivery]
]]

-- Initialize the message's static content

local message = '<pre>{{subst:#switch:{{subst:PAGELANGUAGE}}'

--[[ Build the list of language codes for which there is a translation,
and remove English if it was mistakenly added since we already include
it as default.
We can't automatically list all available translations of the issue, so
we need to input them manually as part of the module's call.
]]

translations = {}

for key, value in pairs( frame.args ) do
if ( mw.language.isKnownLanguageTag( value ) and value ~= 'en' )
then
translations[value] = value
end
end

-- Add English as default

translations['#default'] = 'en'

-- Loop through the languages to assemble the available translations

for switchKey, langCode in pairs( translations ) do

--[[ TODO: add existence check of the translation in case of human
error. Ignore the incorrect language code and give warning.
]]

-- Add new switch key, and language and directionality metadata

local direction = mw.language.new( langCode ):getDir()

--[[ TODO: add switch keys for languages that have a fallback language
for which we do have a translation, instead of English.
]]

message = message .. '|' .. switchKey .. '=<div class="plainlinks mw-content-' .. direction .. '" lang="' .. langCode .. '" dir="' .. direction .. '">'

-- Get the translation's content

local page = frame.args['page']

local content = mw.title.new( page .. '/' .. langCode ):getContent()

--[[ Clean up stuff we don't want to include (headers, footers, etc.)
There's probably a cleaner way to do this but for now it'll work.
TODO: add error checks.
]]

local startSection, startIndex = mw.ustring.find( content, '<section begin="' .. frame.args['marker'] .. '"/>', 1, true )
local endIndex = mw.ustring.find( content, '<section end="' .. frame.args['marker'] .. '"/>', 1, true )

content = mw.ustring.sub( content, startIndex +1 , endIndex -1 )

content = mw.ustring.gsub( content, '{{int|', '{{int|lang=' .. langCode .. '|' )

message = message .. content .. '</div>'

end

-- Add footer static content

message = message .. '}} ~~~~~</pre>'

-- Hide nowiki tags from the preprocessor

message = mw.ustring.gsub ( message, '<nowiki>(.-)</nowiki>', '<nowiki>%1</nowiki>' )

-- Preprocess to make <pre> work

message = frame:preprocess( message )

-- We're done

return message

end

return p

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